NYT Connections For Today September 25, 2025: NYT Connections is more than just a word game, it’s a daily mental workout that asks you to group words into meaningful categories. With 16 words on the board, your task is to spot the connections between them, mix of easy and tricky, and make your guess before hints or colours guide you.
Today’s NYT Connections for September 25, 2025, brings a fresh mix of words that might look simple at first but hide some clever links. If you’re stuck, a few light hints and clues can guide you without giving everything away.
NYT Connections is a daily word puzzle from The New York Times, where you sort 16 words into 4 groups based on a hidden theme.
You see 16 words.
You guess sets of four that share a common link.
Correct sets reveal their category and a colour (yellow, green, blue or purple) hinting difficulty.
Here are today’s 16 words for NYT Connections for September 25, 2025:
Rainmaker
Apollo
Left
Greek/Roman God
Liberal
Cone
Cup
Spacecraft
Theater
Progressive
Blue
The Departed
The Martian
Shake
Split
Good Shepherd
Yellow group: Opposite of Right (in politics)
Green group: Think of gelato or ice-cream ordering styles.
Blue group: Movies starring Matt Damon
Purple group: Apollo is a key linking word.
Yellow: Politics/ ideology, words associated with left-leaning or liberal values.
Green: Ice cream shop items.
Blue: Matt Damon films (especially those prefixed with ‘The’)
Purple: Things named Apollo (like a name shared across gods or spacecraft)
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Yellow: BLUE, LEFT, LIBERAL, PROGRESSIVE
Green: CONE, CUP, SHAKE, SPLIT
Blue: DEPARTED, GOOD SHEPHERD, MARTIAN, RAINMAKER
Purple: FICTIONAL BOXER, GREEK/ROMAN GOD, SPACECRAFT, THEATER
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Start with the obvious groups, some words will clearly belong together.
Watch for word families, prefixes or suffixes, that link can reveal a category.
Use elimination, if a word fits nowhere, it helps narrow the rest.
Don’t rush the purple group, it’s meant to be the trickiest.
Playing NYT Connections adds a dose of fun and curiosity to your day, whether you play to relax, sharpen your mind or just enjoy playing with words.
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