Here's your NYT Connections hint today for Tuesday Sep 29

You can't win Connections every day. It wouldn't be fun if you did! Losing your streak isn't very much fun either, though. That's what we're here for.

Here, we've got subtle hints or full answers so you can save your streak for another day.

Click here to play today's NYT Connections puzzle!

Connections hint for Tuesday 29th September

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• 🟨 Yellow hint: Some places are better when no one knows where they are.
• 🟩 Green hint: Even the river has an anatomy.
• 🟦 Blue hint: Pixar likes to keep things short...
• 🟪 Purple hint: The letters are hiding in plain sight.
• Extra hint 1: One group hides its words inside others.
• Extra hint 2: Every group has at least one word containing the letter 'D'

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

• 🟨 Yellow: Secret
• 🟩 Green: Delta
• 🟦 Blue: Inside
• 🟪 Purple: Oral Phase

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: Secluded
• 🟩 Green: River Features
• 🟦 Blue: First Words of Pixar Films
• 🟪 Purple: Phrases Hiding Greek Letters

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, 29th September:

• 🟨 Yellow: Secluded (Hidden, Remote, Secret, Tucked Away)
• 🟩 Green: River Features (Delta, Drainage Basin, Mouth, Stream Bed)
• 🟦 Blue: First Words of Pixar Films (Finding, Inside, Monsters, Toy)
• 🟪 Purple: Phrases Hiding Greek Letters (Freeze Tag, Home Game, Model Tank, Oral Phase)

If there was a prize for the hardest purple group ever, this one might just clutch the win! Connections is hard enough when you get the actual words. This one not only hid its words inside others, but the words themselves were quite obscure.

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!