Today’s Connections tips and answers for Tuesday, October 1st

Are you looking for a clue to help you with today’s Connections puzzle on October 1st? We’ve broken down each category to give you exactly what you need to solve today’s connections, one piece at a time.

Connections is a word puzzle game published daily by The New York Times (NYT), host of the endlessly popular Wordle Puzzle. Created each day by puzzle maker Wyna Liu, Connections presents you with a selection of 16 seemingly different words that you must group into four groups of four, with each group of four words having a common theme.

It’s a simple premise, but as many of us here know, connections can sometimes be fiendishly difficult, chock-full of red herrings, misleading words and little-known trivia. If you are having difficulty solving today’s connection puzzle, this guide will help you find the answers for Tuesday, October 1, 2024.

Below we offer some carefully crafted hints and hints for today’s Connections. We then reveal the four different groups, and finally the Connections answer themselves for those who are tired of wondering how it all fits together.

In this guide:

Connection information for Tuesday, October 1st

Here you’ll find a clue for each word group in today’s Connections puzzle, as well as a few other Connections clues to help you find the answer.

Our Connections tips for today are:

• Yellow (easiest): Think about how you feel after you walk to catch the bus.
• Green (simple): All words related to training.
• Blue (Medium): Rivers and oceans have these.
• Purple (hardest): Settings used when loading dishes.
• Extra note 1: Lather and Stew belong to the same group.
• Extra note 2: Rapid and Quick belong to different groups.

If you’re looking for more Connections clues today to narrow down the answers, tap the spoiler text below to reveal a word that belongs to each group:

Yellow (easiest):

Tizzy

Green (simple):

form

Blue (Medium):

Fast

Purple (hardest):

Wash

What are today’s Connections words?

Here are the 16 connecting words for today:

What are today’s Connections groups?

If you need an even bigger clue to solve today’s connection puzzle, below we’ll show you the four correct connection groups – the topics that connect each set of four words in the connection grid.

Here are the Connections groups for today:

• Excited state
• fitness
• Fast flowing water
• Dishwasher cycles

Now that you know the themes for the different connections in today’s puzzle, try solving it! If not, please find the full answer below.

Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections answer is in front of you!

What are today’s Connections answers?

Here are the full answers to today’s Connections puzzle on Tuesday, October 1st:

• Nervous condition: Foam, stew, sweat, tizzy
• Fitness: Condition, form, health, form
• Fast flowing water: Cascade, stream, stream, wave
• Dishwasher cycles: Normal, Quick, Rinse, Disinfect

With a number of Flustered State words and two different groups related to water (well, water, and dishwashing) in today’s Connections, things can get a little confusing! I found it easiest to find the connection between all the fitness words first before moving on to the other groups.

Congratulations if you got today’s Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy tips above! And if you didn’t make it today, don’t worry – a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like Wordle.

What are connections?

Connections is one of the most popular daily puzzle games published by The New York Times (owner of Wordle). The goal of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, with each group of four words having a common theme.

For example, the words “Hook,” “Nana,” “Peter,” and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or to give another example: “Action,” “Ballpark,” “Go,” and “Stick” are all words that usually come directly before the word “Figure.”

Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the different words together – but be careful, because false connections are often deliberately inserted there to throw you off! To win the game you must find all four connections without making four mistakes. On the fourth mistake the game is over and the answer is displayed automatically.

Each of the four groups in each day’s connection puzzle is also assigned a different color, indicating how easy or difficult the connection is to find. These colors are: yellow (easiest), green (easy), blue (medium), and purple (most difficult).

That concludes today’s guide to solving the NYT Connections word puzzle. If you are looking for help with Wordle, we also have a list of previous Wordle answers as well as the Wordle clue and answer for Monday September 30th. You can also check out our list of the best starting words for Wordle or use our Wordle Solver tool to find the answer easily!