Today's puzzle wants to go to the bar to avoid the ads.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for October 25 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,232. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,231, 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
- Glow stick
- Wagon wheel
- Football
- Thumb
- Elbow
- Swift
- Fingers
- Shell
- Palm
- Rubber band
- Bow tie
- Sawyer
- Swipe
- Ripley
- Boost
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Five-finger discount
- 🟩 Green: Macaroni
- 🟦 Blue: Famous characters
- 🟪 Purple: Thwack
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: Steal
- 🟩 Green: Pasta shapes
- 🟦 Blue: Fictional Toms
- 🟪 Purple: Things that can be snapped
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 25 for puzzle #1,232 are a bit harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.8 out of 5.
- 🟨 Steal: Boost, palm, pocket, swipe
- 🟩 Pasta shapes: Bow tie, elbow, shell, wagon wheel
- 🟦 Fictional toms: Ripley, sawyer, swift, thumb
- 🟪 Things that can be snapped: Fingers, football, glow stick, rubber band
Overlay and pop-up got me going in today's puzzle as I immediately thought website ads. That led to interstitial and banner.
Mobius strip is how I spotted the strips with bacon, comic and film.
It took a moment to accept hobby horse because I was thinking of the idiom and not the physical toy, but I had pinwheel, popsicle and sparkler as stick-based things.
Anyway, that left candy bar, salad bar, space bar and sports bar as my final four. Unfortunately, a connection I never really made today, which seems much easier now that I've seen it.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Kinds of strips: Bacon, comic, film, mobius
- 🟩 Things on sticks: Hobby horse, pinwheel, popsicle, spakler
- 🟦 Online ad formats: Banner, interstitial, overlay, pop-up
- 🟪 ____ Bar: Candy, salad, space, sports
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,231 which had a difficulty rating of 2.3 out of 5.
Overlay and pop-up got me going in today's puzzle as I immediately thought website ads. That led to interstitial and banner.
Mobius strip is how I spotted the strips with bacon, comic and film.
It took a moment to accept hobby horse because I was thinking of the idiom and not the physical toy, but I had pinwheel, popsicle and sparkler as stick-based things.
Anyway, that left candy bar, salad bar, space bar and sports bar as my final four. Unfortunately, a connection I never really made today, which seems much easier now that I've seen it.
