Today's puzzle is cuts through the cloud of cologne and incense with threads.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for October 18 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,225. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,224, 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
- Angel
- Butter
- Hazel
- Deodorant
- Coco
- Dynamite
- Mister
- Fogerty
- Chest
- Incense
- Vaporetto
- Bureau
- Obsession
- Trunk
- Opium
- Wardrobe
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Closet alternatives
- 🟩 Green: Form factor
- 🟦 Blue: Scents
- 🟪 Purple: Pollutants
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: Places to store clothes
- 🟩 Green: Things that come in sticks
- 🟦 Blue: Famous perfumes
- 🟪 Purple: Starting with things that cloud the air
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 October 18 for puzzle #1,225 are a bit harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.5 out of 5.
- 🟨 Places to store clothes: Bureau, chest, trunk, wardrobe
- 🟩 Things that come in sticks: Butter, deodorant, dynamite, incense
- 🟦 Famous perfumes: Angel, coco, obsession, opium
- 🟪 Starting with things that cloud the air: Fogerty, hazel, mister, vaporetto
I went down the line today, starting with the easiest category first. I thought bureau, chest, trunk, and wardrobe all served a similar function, so they jumped out at me initially.
From there I was a little stuck trying to link up words with multiple vowel sounds before I realized the answer was simpler than that. Butter, deodorant, dynamite, and incense all share the same form factor.
With green out of the way, I realized I'd seen angel and obsession advertised at Ulta a lot and went looking for some other famous scents. I sniffed out coco and opium to solve blue.
That left purple as today's rote fill with fogerty, hazel, mister, and vaporetto.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Digital notifications: Alert, chime, ding, ping
- 🟩 Photo: Print, shot, snap, still
- 🟦 Kinds of crabs: Fiddler, hermit, king, snow
- 🟪 La ____: Boheme, brea, paz, scala
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,224 which had a difficulty rating of 1.8 out of 5.
Pulled a reverse rainbow today, which you hope for when the puzzle is rated under two.
Brea immediately had me in the Las, so it was a quick run to La Boheme, La Paz and La Scala, I assume in reference to the upscale Italian restaurant in Beverly Hills.
Crabs was immediate with King and Snow, quickly followed by Fiddler and Hermit.
I wasn't sure which was green or yellow since yellow is usually a verb while greens tend to be nouns, but I considered both of these sets nouns. Though I suppose the yellow set leans more toward verbs in that these are actions happening on your phone.
So, green was print, shot, snap and still. Yellow is alert, chime, ding, and ping.
