Today's puzzle gets social over some written boxing.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for October 10 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,217. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,216, 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
- Outline
- Shadow
- Feed
- Figure
- Draft
- Imagine
- Kick
- Notifications
- Gather
- Notes
- UN
- Messages
- Beat
- Suppose
- Profile
- Thesis
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Essay
- 🟩 Green: Assume
- 🟦 Blue: Facebook
- 🟪 Purple: TKO
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: Useful when writing a paper
- 🟩 Green: Presume
- 🟦 Blue: Social media sections
- 🟪 Purple: ____ Boxing
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 10 for puzzle #1,217 are easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2 out of 5.
- 🟨 Useful when writing a paper: Draft, notes, outline, thesis
- 🟩 Presume: Figure, gather, imagine, suppose
- 🟦 Social media settings: Feed, messages, notifications, profile
- 🟪 ____ Boxing: Beat, kick, shadow, un
I started today's puzzle trying to figure out where "un" went. It was actually the social media words of feed, messages, notifications and profile that helped me figure it out.
I got to unboxing, which led to the other words: beatboxing, shadow boxing, and kickboxing. I followed up with the social media set.
Honestly, I wasn't cluing into the green set, so I entered the draft, notes, outline and thesis, which I thought was the yellow group.
And that left figure, gather, imagine and suppose as the final four.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Decisive victory: Blowout, romp, rout, sweep
- 🟩 Controlled by a TV remote: Channel, input, power, volume
- 🟦 Features of a sports show: Highlights, recap, scores, stats
- 🟪 Air ____: Conditioner, guitar, kiss, quotes
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,216, which had a difficulty rating of 2.3 out of 5.
Most of my struggle with today's puzzle was deciding which color was what. I managed to see most of the sets surprisingly quickly.
I think the blue set of highlights, recap, scores, and stats could be yellow or green in a harder puzzle, so I wasn't entirely sure. But that's what I put in first, thinking ESPN.
Sticking with sports, I nabbed blowout, romp, rout and sweep next, which is a yellow in most grids.
Air quotes are what clicked the purple set for me with air conditioner, air guitar, and air kiss. Admittedly, I didn't see this one right away but had seen the green set earlier on which is why I saved it.
Anyway, the final four were remote buttons with channel, input, power, and volume.
