NYT Connections #1193 for September 16 is packed with clever hidden-word tricks, with metals, U.S. coins, famous poets and sausages shaping today’s four groups.
NYT Connections hints for September 16
- Yellow: Look at how each answer ends. Think about familiar metallic elements or metals.
- Green: Focus on the beginning of each word. You may notice familiar U.S. coins.
- Blue: These words appear inside the full names of four famous poets.
- Purple: Look for different kinds of sausage hidden inside the answers, but expect one extra letter to get in the way.
Main trap: Words such as NICKelodeon, PENNYwise and QUARTERback may look unrelated by meaning. The key is to stop reading them as complete words and focus on the smaller word hidden at the beginning.
Blue clue: BARRETT and WADSWORTH are useful anchors if you know famous poets. Think Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, then look for two more middle names.
Purple clue: The answers hide BRAT, LINK, FRANKFURTER and WIENER, but each has one extra letter added. This makes the group harder to spot at first glance.
Today’s NYT Connections answers
Reveal the Yellow Group
Category: Ending in metal elements
Answers: LATIN, LONG JOHN SILVER, MARIGOLD, STEAM IRON
Each answer ends with the name of a metal. LATIN ends in TIN, LONG JOHN SILVER ends in SILVER, MARIGOLD ends in GOLD and STEAM IRON ends in IRON.
Reveal the Green Group
Category: Starting with U.S. coins
Answers: DIMENSION, NICKELODEON, PENNYWISE, QUARTERBACK
Each word begins with the name of a U.S. coin. DIMENSION starts with DIME, NICKELODEON starts with NICKEL, PENNYWISE starts with PENNY and QUARTERBACK starts with QUARTER.
Reveal the Blue Group
Category: Poets’ middle names
Answers: BARRETT, CARLOS, ST. VINCENT, WADSWORTH
Each answer is part of the name of a well-known poet: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Carlos Williams, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
This category may be difficult for players who recognize the poets by their surnames but do not immediately remember their full names.
Reveal the Purple Group
Category: Sausages plus a letter
Answers: BORAT, CLINK, FRANK-N-FURTER, WIDENER
Each answer contains a sausage-related word with one extra letter added. BORAT contains BRAT plus O, CLINK contains LINK plus C, FRANK-N-FURTER contains FRANKFURTER plus N and WIDENER contains WIENER plus D.
Why today’s Connections was tricky: Three categories depend on finding smaller words inside larger ones rather than matching answers by their ordinary meanings. The Yellow and Green groups use words at the ends and beginnings of answers, while Purple adds an extra-letter twist.
Today’s solving lesson: If several Connections answers appear unrelated, inspect their spelling closely. A shared word may be hidden at the beginning, end or inside each entry, especially in the puzzle’s more difficult categories.
Players can attempt the official daily puzzle and check their results on the New York Times Connections page.
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