Today's puzzle takes a poll on beverages.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for September 22 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,199. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,198, 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
- This
- That
- The
- Other
- Cafe
- Patron
- Agree
- Accent
- Touch
- Those
- Rose
- Neutral
- Detail
- Disagree
- These
- Flourish
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Estos
- 🟩 Green: Serif
- 🟦 Blue: Poll
- 🟪 Purple: Take a drink
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: Demonstratives
- 🟩 Green: Embellishment
- 🟦 Blue: Options on a multiple choice survey
- 🟪 Purple: Beverages with acute accents removed
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 22 for puzzle #1,199 are a bit harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.6 out of 5.
- 🟨 Demonstratives: That, these, this, those
- 🟩 Embellishment: Accent, detail, flourish, touch
- 🟦 Options on a multiple choice survey: Agree, disagree, neutral, other
- 🟪 Beverages with acute accents removed: Cafe, patron, rose, the
It was obvious but I entered this, that, the, and other just to try. Strike one.
Sticking with other, I found the poll responses of agree, disagree and neutral. I thought this might be a green set, so I was pleasantly surprised to continue my streak of starting with the blues.
Of course, I immediately put in the yellow set with that, these, this and those next.
With the final eight, I spotted the embellishments and figured that was the green, so I put in café, patrón, rosé and thé. I think thé is tea, but Google was quite unhelpful when I tried to confirm it. All I can tell is that it's French, but that came from Reddit, so take it for the grain of salt it is.
Anyway, the embellishment words were my final four with accent, detail, flourish and touch.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Email buttons: Compose, drafts, sent, spam
- 🟩 Ways to attract fish: Chum, fly, spinner, worm
- 🟦 Chess verbs: Capture, castle, check, mate
- 🟪 Starts of composers' names: Beet, brah, chop, viva
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,198 which had a difficulty rating of 2.2 out of 5.
I hopped around a bit today, starting off with a hallmark of family reunions: fishing. Chum, fly, spinner, and worm make up the green category.
Moving on, I spotted some all-too familiar buttons with compose, drafts, sent, and spam for yellow.
I only recently learned what it means to castle, so I was happy to get a chance to flex my new knowledge with the blue category today, which also included check, mate, and capture.
That left purple as today's rote fill with beet, brah, chop, and viva.
