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Explore the four NYT Connections groups for September 4, 2026, and discover how seemingly unrelated words are connected.
Get helpful hints for the yellow, green, blue, and purple groups before checking the complete answers.
Identify words associated with spherical things, foods made from two food names, kinds of eels, and hidden accessories.
For word puzzle lovers, NYT Connections never gets boring. It’s fun, tricks, and the right amount of confusion that keep solvers engaged every day. Whether you are a casual puzzle solver or a regular one with more than a 70-game streak on the line, today’s grid is a delightful challenge. Looking at words like Eye, Cherry Tomato, Gulper, Cringy, and Orange may give you a hint that today’s groups are related to a specific shape of things and food items.
If you’re new to it, Connections is a daily puzzle game from The New York Times where you group 16 words into four sets. The connections can be straightforward or totally hidden, from synonyms and themes to pop culture references.
Each group has a difficulty tier: yellow (easy), green and blue (moderate), and purple (hardest). You get four mistakes max, so precision matters. The twist? Some words fit into more than one category, and that’s where the real challenge begins.
Here are your hints, color-coded by difficulty (but no answers just yet):
Yellow Group (Easiest): These words are related to items with a similar round shape.
Green Group (Medium): Green group words of the puzzle are associated with foods, but they have two in one name.
Blue Group (Moderate): Think of a long fish that can even be dangerous at times.
Purple Group (Hardest): For the purple group words, you have to use the first and last letters of the words.
One Word Per Group
Need a quick push? Here’s one example from each group:
BOWLING BALL
CANDY CORN
MORAY
THAT'S
Also Read: NYT Strands Hints, Answers, Spangram for September 3, 2026 (#914)
Still confused about the solutions? Here are the exact categories for today’s puzzle:
Yellow (SPHERICAL THINGS): BOWLING BALL, EYE, MOON, ORANGE
Blue (FOOD WHOSE NAME IS TWO FOODS): CAKE DONUT, CANDY CORN, CHERRY TOMATO, PIZZA PIE
Green (KINDS OF EELS): CONGER, GULPER, MORAY, RIBBON
Purple (ACCESSORIES INSIDE STARTING AND ENDING LETTERS): CRINGY, OPINE, STIED, THAT'S
NYT Connections has never been easy. The words challenge gamers' vocabulary with tough ideas. Today’s NYT Connections also presents players with some common words, but in a twisted way that makes it challenging to connect without a bit of help. The purple group may stump some, especially if you’re not very familiar with wordplay, but the rest of the puzzle plays fair.
So, whether you solved it in one go or had to peek at a few NYT Connections hints today, the real win is that burst of satisfaction at the end. Come back tomorrow for a new grid, new clues, and more of that Connections magic!
