If youre looking for the Connections answer for Saturday, October 4, 2025, read onIll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solutions to all four categories. Along the way, Ill explain the meanings of the trickier words and well learn how everything fits together. Beware, there are spoilers below for October 4, NYT Connections #846! Read on if you want some hints (and then the answer) to todays Connections game.

If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day, bookmark this page. (If you play Wordle, Strands, or Quordle, check out our hints for those games, too.)

Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need!

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Credit: Connections/NYT The category types in todays Connections puzzleHere are spoiler-free hints that describe the type of each category in todays Connections:

Yellow category - Related verbs

Green category - Synonyms

Blue category - Wordplay

Purple category - Related modifiers

Hints for the themes in todays Connections puzzleHere are some spoiler-free hints for the groupings in todays Connections:

Yellow category - What a well-worn jacket or pair of jeans might need.

Green category - Bad conditions for wearing a skirt.

Blue category - Made of the same parts.

Purple category - Theyre sweet.

BEWARE: Spoilers follow for todays Connections puzzle!Were about to give away some of the answers. Scroll slowly if you dont want the whole thing spoiled. (The full solution is a bit further down.)

A heads up about the tricky partsRATS, BLAST, BLOW, and DARN do not go together as kid-friendly curse words.

DARN is a verb.

RAINBOW refers to a type of striped sweet treat.

What are the categories in todays Connections?Yellow: FIX A HOLE IN CLOTHING

Green: RUSH OF WIND

Blue: ANAGRAMS

Purple: KINDS OF COOKIES

DOUBLE BEWARE: THE SOLUTION IS BELOWReady to learn the answers to todays Connections puzzle? I give them all away below.

What are the yellow words in todays Connections?The yellow grouping is considered to be the most straightforward. The theme for todays yellow group is FIX A HOLE IN CLOTHING and the words are: DARN, MEND, PATCH, STITCH.

What are the green words in todays Connections?The green grouping is supposed to be the second-easiest. The theme for todays green category is RUSH OF WIND and the words are: BLAST, BLOW, GALE, GUST.

What are the blue words in todays Connections?The blue grouping is the second-hardest. The theme for todays blue category is ANAGRAMS and the words are: ARTS, RATS, STAR, TSAR.

What are the purple words in todays Connections?The purple grouping is considered to be the hardest. The theme for todays purple category is KINDS OF COOKIES and the words are: FORTUNE, OATMEAL, RAINBOW, SUGAR.

How I solved todays ConnectionsI think DARN, RATS, BLOW, and BLAST could all be G-rated curse words. Nope!

RATS, STAR, ARTS, and TSAR are all anagrams of each other. Lets try that.

What do you think so far? PATCH, MEND, and STITCH could all be clothing repair words, but Im not sure about a fourth one. Oh, isnt DARNing a thing, too?

I see the other two now. BLAST, BLOW, GALE, and GUST are all wind words.

Which leaves SUGAR, OATMEAL, FORTUNE, and RAINBOWthose are all kinds of cookies.

Connections Puzzle #846 How to play ConnectionsI have a full guide to playing Connections, but heres a refresher on the rules:

First, find the Connections game either on the New York Times website or in their Games app (formerly the Crossword app). Youll see a game board with 16 tiles, each with one word or phrase. Your job is to select a group of four tiles that have something in common. Often they are all the same type of thing (for example: RAIN, SLEET, HAIL, and SNOW are all types of wet weather) but sometimes there is wordplay involved (for example, BUCKET, GUEST, TOP TEN, and WISH are all types of lists: bucket list, guest list, and so on).

Select four items and hit the Submit button. If you guessed correctly, the category and color will be revealed. (Yellow is easiest, followed by green, then blue, then purple.) If your guess was incorrect, youll get a chance to try again.

You win when youve correctly identified all four groups. But if you make four mistakes before you finish, the game ends and the answers are revealed.

How to win ConnectionsThe most important thing to know to win Connections is that the groupings are designed to be tricky. Expect to see overlapping groups. For example, one puzzle seemed to include six breakfast foods: BACON, EGG, PANCAKE, OMELET, WAFFLE, and CEREAL. But BACON turned out to be part of a group of painters along with CLOSE, MUNCH, and WHISTLER, and EGG was in a group of things that come by the dozen (along with JUROR, ROSE, and MONTH). So dont hit submit until youve confirmed that your group of four contains only those four things.

If youre stuck, another strategy is to look at the words that seem to have no connection to the others. If all that comes to mind when you see WHISTLER is the painting nicknamed Whistlers Mother, you might be on to something. When I solved that one, I ended up googling whether there was a painter named Close, because Close didnt fit any of the obvious themes, either.

Another way to win when youre stuck is, obviously, to read a few helpful hintswhich is why we share these pointers every day. Check back tomorrow for the next puzzle!

Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to yesterday's Connections.