Today's puzzle is a fancy meal and long drive past a crop circle.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for September 28 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,205. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,204, 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
- Chihuahua
- Lemon
- Viper
- Bamboo
- Celery
- Tabasco
- Arkansas
- Durango
- Springing
- Charger
- Horseradish
- Wheat
- Possesses
- Mignonette
- Corn
- Challenger
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Fields
- 🟩 Green: A nice meal
- 🟦 Blue: Cars
- 🟪 Purple: It comes in 3s
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: Things with stalks
- 🟩 Green: Oyster condiments
- 🟦 Blue: Dodge models
- 🟪 Purple: Three letters plus repeated trigrams
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 28 for puzzle #1,205 are a little easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2 out of 5.
- 🟨 Things with stalks: Bamboo, celery, corn, wheat
- 🟩 Oyster condiments: Horseradish, lemon, mignonette, tabasco
- 🟦 Dodge models: Challenger, charger, durango, viper
- 🟪 Three letters plus repeated trigrams: Arkansans, chihuahua, possesses, springing
I'm usually terrible with remembering the breeds of cars, but my husband calls out enough Dodge models that the names must of gotten stuck somewhere in the tar pit of my brain. I recognized challenger, charger, and durango, and then figured viper sounded the most like a name of a car of all the remaining clues.
I'm uncultured and had to look up what mignonette was, and that had me hunting for other sauces. Horseradish and tabasco were easy enough, but lemon took me a while.
With green out of the way, I was onto the easiest category with some stalky boys: bamboo, celery, corn and wheat.
That left purple as today's rote fill with a particularly tricky category. Arkansans, chihuahua, possesses, and springing made up the bunch.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Sculpture media: Bronze, clay, marble, plaster
- 🟩 Restaurant seating options: Banquette, booth, chair, stool
- 🟦 Telecom: Carrier, network, operator, provider
- 🟪 Ending in Chinese dynasties: BBQing, homing, lohan, wu-tang
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,203 which had a difficulty rating of 2.3 out of 5.
I ended up going down the line after striking out initially trying to connect all the types of pigeons I saw. I realized I'd fallen right into the Connections Crew's trap, so I took a step back and realize clay had a much more literal connection with bronze, marble, and plaster for yellow.
After that, I was side-eyeing chair and stool as two types of places to sit, and once I realized booth could be added into the mix, I went searching for other spots to park your tuckus. After a beat, I realized banquette finished out green.
Network, carrier, operator, and provider are all words that come up a ton when you write e-commerce stories, so it was easy enough to spot blue.
Purple's was particularly tricky today with BBQing, homing, lohan, and wu-tang.
