Here's your NYT Connections hint for Tuesday Sep 22

This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today's? Check out the Connections hint for Tuesday 29th September!

A lot goes into cultivating a nice and healthy Connections streak. Time, dedication, and don't get us started on the stress!

If your streak is on the line today, don't panic. We've got everything you need to save it in this Connections guide.

Click here to play today's NYT Connections puzzle!

Connections hint for Tuesday 22nd September

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• 🟨 Yellow hint: Words help you point without having to use your finger.
• 🟩 Green hint: The outfit is fine, it just needs a little... something.
• 🟦 Blue hint: You've got Yes Men and No Men, then you've got these guys.
• 🟪 Purple hint: Part of these words are missing something.
• Extra hint 1: Some gramatical details are missing from the words in one group.
• Extra hint 2: Every group has at least one word containing the letter 'S'

If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:

• 🟨 Yellow: That
• 🟩 Green: Detail
• 🟦 Blue: Other
• 🟪 Purple: The

Spoiler warning! Today's Connections groups are revealed just below!

Today's Connections groups revealed

If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today's Connections puzzle, below we'll reveal the four correct Connections groups - the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.

Here are the Connections groups for today:

• 🟨 Yellow: Demonstratives
• 🟩 Green: Embellishment
• 🟦 Blue: Options on a Multiple Choice Survey
• 🟪 Purple: Beverages With Acute Accents Removed

Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today's puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.

Spoiler warning! Today's Connections answer lies ahead!

Connections answer today

Here is the answer to today's Connections puzzle on Tuesday, 22nd September:

• 🟨 Yellow: Demonstratives (That, These, This, Those)
• 🟩 Green: Embellishment (Accent, Detail, Flourish, Touch)
• 🟦 Blue: Options on a Multiple Choice Survey (Agree, Disagree, Neutral, Other)
• 🟪 Purple: Beverages With Acute Accents Removed (Cafe, Patron, Rose, The)

Hands up if you fell for the oldest trick in the Connections book today. The best puzzles, in my opinion, are those that have one (or more) words that fit into multiple categories. And today, that word was the sneaky 'the' from the purple group. Well played Connections.

Let us know in the comments below how you found today's puzzle! Here's my grid:

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Congratulations if you got today's Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you didn't succeed today, don't worry - a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!