Today's puzzle is all about sticking back in history to take a seat, make some art, and answer the phone.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for September 27 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,204. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,203, 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
- Wu-tang
- Carrier
- Homing
- Booth
- Stool
- Marble
- BBQing
- Operator
- Clay
- Banquette
- Network
- Chair
- Lohan
- Bronze
- Provider Plaster
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Art
- 🟩 Green: A nice meal
- 🟦 Blue: Phone
- 🟪 Purple: Age of empires
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: Sculpture media
- 🟩 Green: Restaurant seating options
- 🟦 Blue: Telecom
- 🟪 Purple: Ending in Chinese dynasties
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 27 for puzzle #1,204 are the same difficulty as yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.3 out of 5.
- 🟨 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
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.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Breath fresheners: Gum, mint, mouthwash, spray
- 🟩 Things done to a dress shirt at the laundry: Fold, press, starch, wash
- 🟦 Features of wood: Burl, grain, knots, rings
- 🟪 "Cool" things, in expressions: Beans, cat, cucumber, customer
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 with a lazy strike, basically right at the end. It's been a long week and I wanted to stroll through today's puzzle.
I was looking at Mint and Cucumber initially, looking for cocktail garnishes. That obviously does not work, but it did get me to gum, mouthwash and spray for the yellow set.
I chased laundry next with fold, press, starch and wash.
Here is where I took the strike. I don't know what was happening in my mind when I threw together grain, cucumber, beans and knots other than "food." Strike.
Resetting with grain, I finally spotted the wood words with rings, knots and burl.
And we finally got to the cool words in cool beans, cool cat, cool as a cucumber, and cool customer.
