Tips and answers on today’s NYT’s “Connections” for Tuesday, September 3

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ForbesTips and answers on today’s NYT’s “Connections” for Monday, September 2From Kris Holt

Labor Day may be over, but it’s technically still a few weeks of summer, so I hope you make the most of it. I’ll be in the pool every day that it’s not too cold until my building closes it for the season.

Today’s NYT Connections Clues and answers coming soon.

How to play connections

Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. Every day at midnight you get a new puzzle. You can NYT Website or game app.

You are presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to sort these into four groups of four by finding the connections between them. The groups could be things like clickable items, names of participants in research studies, or words preceded by a body part.

Each puzzle has only one solution. You must be careful with words that could fit into more than one category. You can mix the words up to see if there are any connections between them.

Each group is color-coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to understand, blue and green are in between, and the purple group is usually the most difficult. The purple group often includes wordplay.

Choose four words that you think go together and press submit. If you guess wrong, you lose a life. When you’re close to having a correct group, a message may appear letting you know that you’re one word away from the correct group, but you still need to figure out which one to swap out.

If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with some tips. And if you’re really having trouble, today’s Connections Answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, you can easily share the results with your friends on social media and group chats.

What are today’s connection tips?

Scroll slowly! Immediately after the instructions for each of today’s Connections Groups, I will tell you which groups they are without immediately telling you which words belong in these groups.

Today’s 16 words are…

• TO
• REAL
• FOREGROUND
• SPARE PART
• WON
• ARROW
• EXTRA
• POUND
• ANKLE
• EXCUSE
• ABOVE
• BLOCK
• SAVE
• OVER AND BEYOND
• PARDON
• YEN

And the clues for today’s groups are:

• Yellow group – acquit, relieve
• Green group – excessive
• Blue Group – spend worldwide
• Purple group – connected by a leader or a body part

What are today’s Connections groups?

Need additional help?

Be warned: We are starting to Spoiler area.

Today’s groups are …

• Yellow group – acquittal
• Green group – excessive
• Blue Group – global currencies
• Purple Group — ____Head

What are today’s Connections answers?

Warning, spoilers! Don’t scroll down until you’re ready to see today’s Connections Answer.

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections Answers are …

• Yellow group – acquit (APORNY, FORGIVENESS, SAVE, SPARE)
• Green Group – excessive (BEYOND, EXTRA, OVER, TO)
• Blue Group – global currencies (pound, real, won, yen)
• Purple Group – ____Head (ARROW, BLOCK, FRONT, KNUCKLE)

My first perfect game in a few days means I have two wins in a row.

The blues caught my eye immediately, and the yellows quickly followed. It was nice that the rearranged grid clustered the greens in the middle so they stood out, which meant the purples – which I should have seen the connection – won.

That’s all for today Connections Hints and answers. Be sure to check out my blog for clues and the solution for Wednesday’s game if you need them.

PS: Whether you’re just getting back into the swing of things after a long weekend or it’s just a regular Tuesday for you, I think we can all agree that this is the perfect time of the week for a pick-me-up. So turn it up and dance around for three minutes and 42 seconds. I can almost guarantee you’ll feel better:

And if you need some inspiration for your moves…