Today's puzzle picks up some Greek for a secret Pixar movie night.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for September 29 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,206. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,205, 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
- Delta
- Hidden
- Inside
- Model Tank
- Monsters
- Finding
- Secret
- Toy
- Freeze Tag
- Oral Phase
- Mouth
- Remote
- Stream Bed
- Tucked Away
- Home Game
- Drainage Basin
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Where is it?
- 🟩 Green: To the sea
- 🟦 Blue: Movie
- 🟪 Purple: Greek
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: Secluded
- 🟩 Green: River features
- 🟦 Blue: First words of Pixar films
- 🟪 Purple: Phrases hiding Greek letters
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 29 for puzzle #1,206 are harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.5 out of 5.
- 🟨 Secluded: Hidden, remote, secret, tucked away
- 🟩 River features: Delta, drainage basin, mouth, streambed
- 🟦 First words of Pixar films: Finding, inside, monsters, toys
- 🟪 Phrases hiding Greek letters: Freeze tag, home game, model, tank, oral phase
I was thinking of rivers when I started today's puzzle. I grabbed delta, drainage basin, stream bed and then mouth.
I spotted the yellow set but saved it and wasn't sure about the purple and blue sets until I came up with a somewhat absurd group that used the purple words but had nothing to do with the eventual category.
Anyway, I put in finding, inside, monsters and toy as a guess. Look at that, Pixar movies.
Since my experiments were working, I dropped in freeze tag, home game, model tank, and oral phase, which are hiding Greek letters. Presumably, Zeta, Mega, Delta and Alpha.
And my final four was hidden, remote, secret, and tucked away.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Things with stalks: Bamboo, celery, corn, wheat
- 🟩 Oyster condiments: Horseradish, lemon, mignonette, tabasco
- 🟦 Dodge models: Challenger, charger, durango, viper
- 🟪 Three letters plus repeated trigrams: Arkansans, chihuahua, possesses, springing
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,204 which had a difficulty rating of 2 out of 5.
I'm usually terrible with remembering the breeds of cars, but my husband calls out enough Dodge models that the names must of gotten stuck somewhere in the tar pit of my brain. I recognized challenger, charger, and durango, and then figured viper sounded the most like a name of a car of all the remaining clues.
I'm uncultured and had to look up what mignonette was, and that had me hunting for other sauces. Horseradish and tabasco were easy enough, but lemon took me a while.
With green out of the way, I was onto the easiest category with some stalky boys: bamboo, celery, corn and wheat.
That left purple as today's rote fill with a particularly tricky category. Arkansans, chihuahua, possesses, and springing made up the bunch.
