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Connections hint for Tuesday 15th September
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- 🟨 Yellow hint: Someone has to show you the ropes before you can pull them.
- 🟩 Green hint: Think appliance anatomy.
- 🟦 Blue hint: They’re on a team, and hopefully it’s your one.
- 🟪 Purple hint: Some things arrive fashionably late.
- Extra hint 1: For one group it’s the ending that counts.
- Extra hint 2: Every group has at least one word containing the letter ‘T’
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- 🟨 Yellow: Guide
- 🟩 Green: Spout
- 🟦 Blue: Plant
- 🟪 Purple: Epilogue
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!
Today’s Connections groups revealed
If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four correct Connections groups – the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.
Here are the Connections groups for today:
- 🟨 Yellow: Instruct
- 🟩 Green: Parts of a Whistling Kettle
- 🟦 Blue: Undercover Operative
- 🟪 Purple: Things That Appear at the End
Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections answer lies ahead!
Connections answer today
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Tuesday, 15th September:
- 🟨 Yellow: Instruct (Coach, Direct, Guide, Train)
- 🟩 Green: Parts of a Whistling Kettle (Handle, Lid, Spout, Whistle)
- 🟦 Blue: Undercover Operative (Asset, Mole, Plant, Sleeper)
- 🟪 Purple: Things That Appear at the End (Caboose, December, Dessert, Epilogue)
Today’s puzzle was a nice mix of associations, roles, and the classic purple wordplay wasn’t too bad for once! Endings is still a pretty abstract idea, but this one was slightly less diabolical than usual.
Let us know in the comments below how you found today’s puzzle! Here’s my grid:
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Congratulations if you got today’s Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you didn’t succeed today, don’t worry – a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!