Today's puzzle stirs up some dessert.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for September 5 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,182. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,181, 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
- Sleepy
- Honk
- Bobble
- Gobble
- Warble
- Cobble
- Wobble
- Tar
- Pi
- Hammer
- Toddle
- Coo
- Sway
- Jug
- Tort
- Totter
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Trip
- 🟩 Green: Birdy
- 🟦 Blue: Heady
- 🟪 Purple: Sweet
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: Move unsteadily
- 🟩 Green: Bird onomatopoeia
- 🟦 Blue: ____head
- 🟪 Purple: Desserts minus last letter
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 5 for puzzle #1,182 are easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.3 out of 5.
- 🟨 Move unsteadily: Sway, toddle, totter, wobble
- 🟩 Bird onomatopoeia: Coo, gobble, honk, warble
- 🟦 ____Head: Bobble, hammer, jug, sleepy
- 🟪 Desserts minus last letter: Cobble, pi, tar, tort
I'm fighting a cold, so this puzzle took some time for things to actually click. Eventually, I saw bobblehead and jughead and was able to put together the hammerhead and sleepyhead group.
Birds got me to warble, honk, coo and gobble.
I wasn't seeing the purple set but I did catch the yellow so I put in cobbler, pie, tart, and torte as the desserts.
This left sway, toddle, totter and wobble as the final four.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Spherical Things: Bowling Ball, Eye, Moon, Orange
- 🟩 Food Whose Name Is Two Foods: Cake Donut, Candy Corn, Cherry Tomato, Pizza Pie
- 🟦 Kinds of Eels: Conger, Gulper, Moray, Ribbon
- 🟪 Accessories Inside Starting and Ending Letters: Cringy, Opine, Stied, That's
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,181, which had a difficulty rating of 3.5 out of 5.
Today's puzzle rating seems off from Connections Companion, because I found this to be the hardest Connections I've ever done (granted, I only cover for Scott or Alyse when they're off).
It seems easy for the yellow words, then it ramps up for green and rocks your brain on blue and purple (especially purple; I could barely come up with a hint for it).
As you can probably tell from my tone, I didn't solve today's puzzle successfully, and I'm not happy about it. Maybe I just need to expand my knowledge of eels so I can get blue, but there's no way I'd ever figure out the Accessories Inside Starting and Ending Letters without the process of elimination.
