If today’s New York Times Connections grid has you burning through your mistakes, you are not alone. Puzzle #1207 features some clever misdirection, with several words seemingly fitting into finance or drink themes before pulling the rug out from under you.
Here are helpful hints to guide you through today’s puzzle, with the full answers listed further down.
Today’s Connections Strategy & Commentary
Watch out for the red herrings today. At first glance, words like Martini and Bond might look like they belong together as drink related terms, while Stock and Future could seem like general time words.
Committing to those wrong connections early will cost you chances. We recommend looking at the pattern for each category first. Checking whether a group describes financial instruments, items you shake, classic gangster films, or words starting with month abbreviations will make the remaining words much easier to sort.
Connections Hints Today: Category Clues
If you just need a nudge to get your brain moving in the right direction, here are clues for the four color-coded groups:
- 🟨 Yellow Group Hint (Easiest): These are financial instruments you can invest in.
- 🟩 Green Group Hint (Medium): These are items that get shaken rather than stirred.
- 🟦 Blue Group Hint (Hard): These are titles of well known gangster movies.
- 🟪 Purple Group Hint (Tricky): Each word starts with an abbreviation for a month of the year.
Stuck on one word? If you have Octopussy, think October. It belongs to the Purple group today! For the Blue group, think classic crime films.
Here is my result for today’s puzzle:
Connections
Puzzle #1207
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⚠️ Spoiler Warning: The full answers are listed below. If you still want to solve the grid yourself using the clues above, do not scroll down.
NYT Connections Answers Today for September 30, 2026, Wednesday Puzzle #1207
Here are the completed categories and groupings for today’s puzzle:
🟨 Yellow Category: Securities
- Bond
- Future
- Option
- Stock
🟩 Green Category: Things That Are Shaken Not Stirred
- Etch A Sketch
- Martini
- Spray Paint
- Tambourine
🟦 Blue Category: Gangster Movies
- Bugsy
- Casino
- Donnie Brasco
- Scarface
🟪 Purple Category: Starting With Month Abbreviations
- Decent
- Novelty
- Octopussy
- Septum
Yesterday’s Answer
This is yesterday’s NYT Connections answer for September 29, 2026, Puzzle #1206.
🟨 Yellow Category: Secluded — Hidden, Remote, Secret, Tucked Away
🟩 Green Category: River Features — Delta, Drainage Basin, Mouth, Stream Bed
🟦 Blue Category: First Words Of Pixar Films — Finding, Inside, Monsters, Toy
🟪 Purple Category: Phrases Hiding Greek Letters — Freeze Tag, Home Game, Model Tank, Oral Phase
For older solutions, see our Connections answers archive.
How did you do?
Did today’s puzzle give you a perfect solve or did the month abbreviation group take you extra tries? Share your results grid in the comments below.
A new puzzle becomes available every midnight based on your local time zone. It appears at different times around the world including United States UTC-4 to UTC-8, Philippine Standard Time UTC+8, Australia UTC+8 to UTC+11, and New Zealand UTC+12 or UTC+13.
Check back tomorrow for more Connections hints, strategy tips, and the next answer.
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