Today's puzzle pulls your leg about famous Disney characters in lumberjack lingerie.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for September 8 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,185. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,184, 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
- Purple
- Stripes
- Skort
- Gloves
- Corvette
- Artichoke
- Doves
- Marsh
- Sacred
- Beret
- Viper
- Twixt
- Suspenders
- Mustang
- Take To
- Firebird
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Vroom Vroom
- 🟩 Green: Art the Clown
- 🟦 Blue: Blood pumping
- 🟪 Purple: Yummy
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: Classic American Performance Cars
- 🟩 Green: Features Of A Mime Costume
- 🟦 Blue: ___ Heart
- 🟪 Purple: Candy Bars 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 8 for puzzle #1,185 are easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 1.7 out of 5.
- 🟨 Classic American Performance Cars: Corvette, Firebird, Mustang, Viper
- 🟩 Features Of A Mime Costume: Beret, Gloves, Stripes, Suspenders
- 🟦 ___ Heart: Artichoke, Purple, Sacred, Take To
- 🟪 Candy Bars Plus A Letter: Doves, Marsh, Skort, Twixt
I went a little out of order today, but I got the job done in the end, no matter how unconventional it was.
Things started off normally, sliding right into yellow with the muscle cars. I'm a Mustang guy myself, but I like all of the cars in the category.
From there, I noticed that Twixt isn't a commonly used word (I don't think I've ever used it in daily conversation). Then I saw Doves and connected it to candy bars with an extra letter, locking in purple.
From there, it was smooth sailing as I figured out the mime costume and locked in ___ heart with the process of elimination.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Quite the saga: Fabrication, fish story, tall tale, yarn
- 🟩 Parts of a bra: Cup, hook, strap, underwire
- 🟦 Associated with pine trees: Car air freshener, Christmas, needles, turpentine
- 🟪 Starting with Disney characters: Plutonium, scar tissue, stitch marker, trampoline
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,184, which had a difficulty rating of 2.5 out of 5.
I initially struck out today trying to connect all the knitting-related clues, and that got me thinking of other meanings of yarn. I realized fabrication, tall tale, and fish story could be lumped in with it, which solved yellow.
Anyone who grew up AFAB has a horror story or two about underwire, so that clue got me thinking about bras. I started looking for other components of those damned contraptions, and came up with cup, hook, and strap to solve green.
Blue was a little tricky. After staring at the puzzle for ages, it finally clicked the Christmas and car air freshener both related to trees. Needles was easy enough to spot, but I didn't realize turpentine was made from pine trees. In my defense, it's called pine tar in Stardew Valley.
That left purple as today's rote fill with plutonium, scar tissue, stitch marker, and trampoline.
