NYT ‘Connections’ September 4: Answers, Clues for Game [Video]

If you’re struggling with today’s Connections puzzle, Newsweek has all the information you need so you can win.

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

Connections can be quite challenging, and a little nudge can sometimes make all the difference. The answers for Wednesday’s puzzle are at the bottom of this article, so proceed with caution if you prefer to solve it on your own.

How to Play ‘Connections’

Players are tasked with grouping 16 words into four categories based on association.

Each of the four categories is labeled with a color, which also signifies their difficulty level: beginning with yellow as the easiest, then green, blue and finally the toughest category, purple.

In case it makes it any easier, at any point during the game the player can shuffle the …