Today's puzzle uses math to take a London trip.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for September 19 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,196. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,195, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.
Alternatively, visit our how to play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.
What is Connections
Solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.
Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Today's Connection Grid and Words
- Stick Figure
- Miniskirt
- Log Cabin
- Sun
- Tan Line
- Branch Out
- House
- Twiggy
- Tree
- Mod
- Sin City
- Grow
- Cos Lettuce
- Expand
- Carnaby Street
- Diversify
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Add
- 🟩 Green: Fridge art
- 🟦 Blue: Quite English
- 🟪 Purple: Geometry
Today's Connections Group Hints
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Widen one's scope
- 🟩 Green: Features of a kid's drawing
- 🟦 Blue: Associated with Swinging London in the 1960s
- 🟪 Purple: Starting with abbreviated match functions
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Today's Connections answers
The Connections answers on September 19 for puzzle #1,196 are a bit easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 1.8 out of 5.
- 🟨 Widen one's scope: Branch out, diversify, expand, grow
- 🟩 Features of a kid's drawing: House, stick figure, sun, tree
- 🟦 Associated with Swinging London in the 1960s: Carnaby street, miniskirt, mod, twiggy
- 🟪 Starting with abbreviated math functions: Cos lettuce, log cabin, sin city, tan line
I managed a reverse rainbow today thanks to math and a little Googling.
Cos lettuce stuck out to me as soon as I looked over the puzzle, and sin city confirmed the math for me. Then I just needed to find log cabin and tan line. I did look up cos lettuce afterwards to see if it was a real word and discovered that its another name for romaine lettuce.
Apparently, cos lettuce is the term in England; as an American, I've only ever heard or read romaine. Always nice to learn a new term.
Carnaby Street was the one I googled while solving because it didn't ring any bells, but seeing that it was in Soho clicked the Twiggy connection for me. Then I spotted mod and miniskirt to wrap it up.
I was thinking line drawings when I started putting house, sun, tree and stick figure together.
This left branch out, diversify, expand and grow as my rote fill.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Segment of a process: Phase, round, stage, step
- 🟩 Assortments of food/drink: Flight, medley, platter, sampler
- 🟦 Parts of a flight: Boarding, cruise, landing, takeoff
- 🟪 ____Case: Brief, pillow, stair, upper
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,195 which had a difficulty rating of 2 out of 5.
I was one off the reverse rainbow today, but I've been spotting the blue set for my first grouping pretty consistently lately.
Today was no different with boarding, cruise, landing and takeoff.
Pillow is how I found the cases, followed by brief, upper and then stair for the purple set.
Flight was my way into the green set, which got me to sampler platter and medley.
Finally, the final four words were parts of the process: phase, round, stage and step.
