Subj : NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, October 29 (game
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Date : Tue Oct 28 2025 15:15:07

NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, October 29 (game #871)

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Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0000

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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to 
solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

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for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each 
day for your time zone  which means that some people are always playing 
'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for 
Tuesday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers 
for Tuesday, October 28 (game #870) . 

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that 
challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so 
read on if you need Connections hints. 

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of 
course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and 
answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today 
page covers the original viral word game. 

 SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't 
read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Connections today (game 
#871) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times) 

Today's NYT Connections words are OUIJA BOARD BACKBONE PLATFORM SANCE 
SCRABBLE MEDIUM SACRUM SPIRIT OUTLET SEITAN ABECEDARIUM HEART COMPUTER 
KEYBOARD COURAGE VENUE SEYCHELLES NYT Connections today (game #871) - hint #1 
- group hints 

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Gritty 
qualities GREEN: A stage for expression BLUE: A sound in common PURPLE: 
Alphabetical order 

Need more clues? 

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what 
the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles NYT 
Connections today (game #871) - hint #2 - group answers 

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: FORTITUDE 
GREEN: CHANNEL BLUE: WORDS STARTING WITH THE "SAY" SOUND PURPLE: THINGS 
FEATURING LETTERS A THROUGH Z 

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT 
TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #871) - the answers (Image credit: 
New York Times) 

The answers to today's Connections, game #871, are YELLOW: FORTITUDE 
BACKBONE, COURAGE, HEART, SPIRIT GREEN: CHANNEL MEDIUM, OUTLET, PLATFORM, 
VENUE BLUE: WORDS STARTING WITH THE "SAY" SOUND SACRUM, SEITAN, SEYCHELLES, 
SANCE PURPLE: THINGS FEATURING LETTERS A THROUGH Z ABECEDARIUM, COMPUTER 
KEYBOARD, OUIJA BOARD, SCRABBLE My rating: Hard My score: 1 mistake 

Before getting the yellow/easiest group and kicking myself for not seeing it 
sooner I made an error that hopefully I was not alone in  linking SANCE, 
SPIRIT, OUIJA BOARD and MEDIUM, thinking it was a group about contact with 
the dead. 

Fortunately, triumph followed as I got the purple/hardest quartet next, after 
thinking that letters connected SCRABBLE and COMPUTER KEYBOARD. 

I didnt know what ABECEDARIUM was (an inscription consisting of the letters 
of an alphabet, almost always listed in order) but it sounded right and I 
knew from its appearances in horror movies and ghost stories that a OUIJA 
BOARD was made up of letters and the words YES and NO. 

The blue group was a reminder that often you need to say the words on the 
tiles as well as read them. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, 
October 28, game #870) YELLOW: BANALITY CHESTNUT, CLICH, PLATITUDE, TROPE 
GREEN: IN THE KNOW AWARE, HIP, SAVVY, WISE BLUE: REMOTE CONTROL BUTTONS BACK, 
HOME, MENU, SELECT PURPLE: ONE-NAMED SINGER PLUS STARTING LETTER GUSHER, 
KENYA, OCHER, PELVIS What is NYT Connections? 

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the 
New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share 
something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green 
is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually 
very difficult. 

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as 
you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, 
you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing 
room. 

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there 
are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For 
instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise 
the answers. 

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.



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