Today's puzzle features famous Dans.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for September 25 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,202. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,201, 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
- Rather
- Bougie
- Genius
- Spring
- Border
- Ratchet
- Swank
- Savage
- Classy
- Levy
- Pendulum
- Fancy
- Escapement
- Posh
- Foamily
- Aykroyd
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Rich
- 🟩 Green: Timer
- 🟦 Blue: Dan by any other name
- 🟪 Purple: Categories
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: Luxe
- 🟩 Green: Parts of a mechanical clock
- 🟦 Blue: Famous Dans
- 🟪 Purple: Taxonomic ranks plus a letter
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 25 for puzzle #1,202 are a bit harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.5 out of 5.
- 🟨 Luxe: Bougie, fancy, posh, swank
- 🟩 Parts of a mechanical clock: Escapement, pendulum, ratchet, spring
- 🟦 Famous Dans: Aykroyd, levy, rather, savage
- 🟪 Taxonomic ranks plus a letter: Border, classy, foamily, genius
Foamily was such a weird-looking word in the puzzle that I had to start there. I dropped the o to make family and spotted genius where I dropped the i for genus. Finding the taxonomy helped me find border and classy. Purple done.
Aykroyd was next to foamily and I spotted the famous Dan. After scouring the puzzle, I spotted Savage, which put Dan Savage in mind. That put me onto the Dan connection where I was able to get Levy and Rather.
I messed up my reverse rainbow by picking bougie, fancy, posh, and swank. Ah, the yellow set.
This left the clock parts: pendulum, ratchet, spring and escapement.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Parts of a Vampire Costume: Cape, Face Paint, Fake Blood, Fangs
- 🟩 Things With Spring/s: Bobblehead, Pogo Stick, Snakes in a Can, Trampoline
- 🟦 Featuring Pointing: Creation of Adam, Foam Finger, I'm With Stupid Shirt, Uncle Sam
- 🟪 Anagrams: Beer Hat, Breathe, Herb Tea, The Bear, Featuring Pointing
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,201 which had a difficulty rating of 2.3 out of 5.
I was all over the place with today's Connections puzzle, but my unconventional method got the job done.
I started with green, quickly realizing that everything there had springs. That was easy. From there, I noticed the Halloween theme, figured out it was actually vampire costume pieces, and thought I had it all figured out.
But the final two sections left me with a couple of incorrect guesses as I tried to narrow down how they connected. But after staring blankly at the puzzle for what felt like an eternity, I noticed the anagrams of purple and then got blue through the process of elimination.
