If today’s New York Times Connections grid has you burning through your mistakes, you are not alone. Puzzle #1213 features some clever misdirection, with several words seemingly fitting into furniture or hotel 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 Comfort and Holiday might look like they belong together as general feelings, while Goldman and Merrill could seem like just surnames.
Committing to those wrong connections early will cost you chances. We recommend looking at the pattern for each category first. Checking whether a group lists short names of major financial firms, styles of seating, words that complete hotel brand names, or words ending in something meaning talent 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): Shortened names of well-known investment and banking companies.
- 🟩 Green Group Hint (Medium): Distinctive styles of seats and chairs.
- 🟦 Blue Group Hint (Hard): Words that come before Inn to make a well-known hotel chain name.
- 🟪 Purple Group Hint (Tricky): Words that end with a word meaning natural ability or skill.
Stuck on one word? If you have Pianoforte, look at the ending, it hides the word for a special gift or ability. It belongs to the Purple group today! For the Blue group, think of the hotel brands you see along highways.
Here is my reult for today’s puzzle: Connections
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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 October 6, 2026 (Puzzle #1213)
Here are the completed categories and groupings for today’s puzzle:
🟨 Yellow Category: Financial Firms, For Short
- Berkshire
- Citi
- Goldman
- Merrill
🟩 Green Category: Kinds Of Chairs
- Adirondack
- Eames
- Windsor
- Wingback
🟦 Blue Category: _ Inn Hotels
- Comfort
- Days
- Hampton
- Holiday
🟪 Purple Category: Ending In Talents
- Castskill
- Knickknack
- Pianoforte
- Stability
Yesterday’s Answer
This is yesterday’s NYT Connections answer for October 5, 2026 (Puzzle #1212).
🟨 Yellow Category: Calm (Content, Peaceful, Placid, Serene)
🟩 Green Category: Adjectives For Mature Content (Explicit, Graphic, Strong, Suggestive)
🟦 Blue Category: Kinds Of Boards (Advisory, Chess, Ironing, Message)
🟪 Purple Category: Ending In Ways To Temporarily Acquire (Parent, Please, Sapphire, Sloan)
For older solutions, see our Connections answers archive.
How did you do?
Did today’s puzzle give you a perfect solve or did the hidden wordplay take extra tries? Share your results grid in the comments below.
A new puzzle becomes available every midnight based on your local time zone through the official NYT Connections page or NYT Games app. 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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