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The purple category in today’s NYT Connections puzzle might make you hungry. The puzzle is not too tough, but if you need help, you’re in the right place. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.
The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.
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Hints for today’s Connections groups
Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.
Yellow group hint: Don’t rip your pants!
Green group hint: Weather that will mess up your hair.
Blue group hint: Rearrange letters.
Purple group hint: A blue Muppet eats these.
Answers for today’s Connections groups
Yellow group: Fix a hole in clothing.
Green group: Rush of wind.
Blue group: Anagrams.
Purple group: Kinds of cookies.
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What are today’s Connections answers?
The completed NYT Connections puzzle for Oct. 4, 2025.
The yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is fix a hole in clothing. The four answers are darn, mend, patch and stitch.
The green words in today’s Connections
The theme is rush of wind. The four answers are blast, blow, gale and gust.
The blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is anagrams. The four answers are arts, rats, star and tsar.
The purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is kinds of cookies. The four answers are fortune, oatmeal, rainbow and sugar.
Toughest Connections puzzles
We’ve made a note of some of the toughest Connections puzzles so far. Maybe they’ll help you see patterns in future puzzles.
#5: Included “things you can set,” such as mood, record, table and volleyball.
#4: Included “one in a dozen,” such as egg, juror, month and rose.
#3: Included “streets on screen,” such as Elm, Fear, Jump and Sesame.
#2: Included “power ___” such as nap, plant, Ranger and trip.
#1: Included “things that can run,” such as candidate, faucet, mascara and nose.
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