Today's puzzle freely divvies up some hardware with one word too many.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for September 5 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,183. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,182, 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
- SAT score
- UPC code
- USB port
- ATM machine
- Card slot
- Blank check
- Court scribe
- PIN number
- Director's cut
- Optical drive
- Carte blanche
- Headphone jack
- Free reign
- Pizza slice
- LCD display
- Full authority
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Go ham
- 🟩 Green: Booting up
- 🟦 Blue: Unnecessary words
- 🟪 Purple: Ending with indentations
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: Unrestricted permission
- 🟩 Green: Places to insert something into on a computer
- 🟦 Blue: Abbreviations followed by redundant word
- 🟪 Purple: Ending with ways to carve a surface
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 6 for puzzle #1,183 are a bit harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 3 out of 5.
- 🟨 Unrestricted permission: Blank check, carte blanche, free reign, full authority
- 🟩 Places to insert something into on a computer: Card slot, headphone jack, optical drive, USB port
- 🟦 Abbreviations followed by redundant word: ATM machine, LCD display, PIN number, UPC code
- 🟪 Ending with ways to carve a slice: Court scribe, director's cut, pizza slice, sat score
As a former copy editor and owner of a CAC (who frequently called it a CAC card just to piss off their boss), I saw PIN number and knew my pedantry would come in handy for today's puzzle. I rounded out the rest of the blue category with ATM machine, LCD display, and UPC code.
After that, I noticed card slot, headphone jack, optical drive, and USB port all had to do with computers, and that was green solved.
With the easiest category still left, I figured that would be the best place to jump to next. After taking another look around the board, I spotted four synonyms: blank check, carte blanche, free reign, and full authority.
That left purple as today's rote fill with court scribe, director's cut, pizza slice, and SAT score.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 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
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,182, which had a difficulty rating of 2.3 out of 5.
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.
