NYT ‘Connections’ October 5: Clues and Answers for Game [Video]

It may be the weekend, but that’s no reason to slack off on maintaining your Connections win streak—or starting a new one.

The brainteaser was launched by The New York Times in June 2023 and has gone on to become the newspaper’s second-most played game behind Wordle, another word-based puzzle.

Connections challenges players to uncover threads connecting a series of words. Instructions on how to play the game are below. Clues and the answers for today’s puzzle are toward the end of the article.

How to Play ‘Connections’

Connections tasks players with grouping 16 words into four categories based on association. For example, Friday’s game linked the words “Dent,” “Dimple,” “Ding,” and “Divot” under the category “Concavity.”

Each of the four categories is labeled with a color, which also signifies their difficulty level. Yellow is the easiest category, followed by green, blue and purple. The puzzles are rarely straightforward, using homophones and wordplay, among other techniques, to keep players challenged.

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