NYT Connections hints and answers today, Monday Oct 27

Need a hint for today’s Connections on Monday, 27th October? Connections puzzles truly are the most complex things in the universe, but it feels great to solve them, with or without help. If your brains are getting slightly fried by today’s theme-finding challenge, perhaps a few hints will come in handy.

Besides hints, we’ve also got some word reveals and theme reveals to help you on the way to victory. Go forth and solve that puzzle!

In this guide:

Here are the 16 Connections words for today:

How to play Connections

Connections is one of the most popular (and challenging) daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). The aim of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, where each group of four words has a common theme.

For instance, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter”, and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or to take another example, “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go”, and “Stick” are all words which commonly come just before the word “Figure”.

Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the various words together – but be wary, because a lot of the time there are deceptive red herring connections placed purely to throw you off! To win the game, you have to find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is revealed automatically.

Each of the four groups in each day’s Connections puzzle is also assigned a different colour, which represents how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colours are: Yellow (Easiest), Green (Easy), Blue (Medium), and Purple (Hardest).

Click here to play today’s Connections puzzle!

Connections hint for Monday, 27th October

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: They’re oozing.
• Green: Akin to “solely”.
• Blue: To top it off.
• Purple: Try adding a number.
• Extra hint 1: Try grouping the foods together.
• Extra hint 2: “Connect” and “branch” are in different groups.

If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:

• Yellow: Radiate
• Green: Only
• Blue: Cherry
• Purple: Fab

Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!

What are today’s Connections groups?

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: Emanate
• Green: In the Slightest
• Blue: Cocktail Garnishes
• Purple: ___Four

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!

What is today’s Connections answer?

Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Monday, 27th October:

• Yellow: Emanate (Branch, Fan, Radiate, Spread)
• Green: In the Slightest (Just, Merely, Only, Simply)
• Blue: Cocktail Garnishes (Cherry, Mint, Olive, Twist)
• Purple: ___Four (Connect, Fab, Fantastic, Petit)

Well, that doesn’t happen often… I found every theme except yellow today. I started with “only” and “just”, leading to the green theme, followed by the “four” and the “food” words.

I usually don’t catch the “add a word” themes that quickly, but I saw “petit”, thought of “petit four”, and confirmed it with the movie “Fantasic Four”. I then started to macth the foods together, which seemed too good to be true, but actually worked (as long as you don’t add “spread”).

Well, finding a less arduous Connections every now and again is pretty nice, so I’m not complaining!

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!