Today's puzzle isn't hard but requires some American knowledge.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for October 6 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,213. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,212, 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
- Adirondack
- Knickknack
- Catskill
- Holiday
- Comfort
- Berkshire
- Stability
- Hampton
- Windsor
- Merrill
- Wingback
- Days
- Citi
- Pianoforte
- Eames
- Goldman
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Banking
- 🟩 Green: Sit-down
- 🟦 Blue: Business trip
- 🟪 Purple: Able
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: Financial firms, for short
- 🟩 Green: Kinds of chairs
- 🟦 Blue: ____ Inn hotels
- 🟪 Purple: Ending in talents
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 6 for puzzle #1,213 are the same difficulty as yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.3 out of 5.
- 🟨 Calm: Content, Peaceful, Placid, Serene
- 🟩 Adjectives For Mature Content: Explicit, Graphic, Strong, Suggestive
- 🟦 Kinds Of Boards: Advisory, Chess, Ironing, Message
- 🟪 Ending In Ways To Temporarily Acquire: Parent, Please, Sapphire, Sloan
I've been reading design and architecture books for kids to my daughter so Eames leapt out to me immediately. I was able to find Wingback and Adirondack, but it took a moment to find Windsor. However, if you see my hints above, you'll note that I entered it last. I was looking at the chairs and thought it was a green category.
Which makes no sense since the blue category of Comfort Inn, Days Inn, Hampton Inn and Holiday Inn seems more like a green or yellow set to me.
No more so than the banking set of Berkshire, Citi, Goldman and Merrill, which was actually the yellow set.
This left catskill, knickknack, pianoforte, and stability as the third set I entered to nab the purple. Then I put in the chairs.
I know this is a knowledge thing on my end, but honestly it feels like these sets are not in the correct colors. That said, I've read the comments on the Connections Companion over time, and there are a lot of solvers who are not Americans, so they may not know the various hotel chains that litter the country.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Calm: Content, Peaceful, Placid, Serene
- 🟩 Adjectives For Mature Content: Explicit, Graphic, Strong, Suggestive
- 🟦 Kinds Of Boards: Advisory, Chess, Ironing, Message
- 🟪 Ending In Ways To Temporarily Acquire: Parent, Please, Sapphire, Sloan
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,212, which had a difficulty rating of 2.3 out of 5.
Today's Connections has a clever red herring: the words Parent, Advisory, Explicit and Content spell out the "Parental Advisory: Explicit Content," a phrase we all remember from when buying CDs.
However, I started with the green group, since those grabbed my attention quickly, with the red herring having me thinking about warnings for adult content.
From there, the blue group came next, but it took a couple of guesses before I locked in on it. Eventually, I realized that "board" was the link between them.
Purple was almost impossible, but thankfully it was the last group left, so I locked in the four remaining choices to finish the puzzle.
