NYT Connections hints and answers for September 12. Tips to solve 'Connections' #1189.
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Key Points:
- The New York Times Connections puzzle is a popular daily word game where players group 16 words into four categories based on common themes, with increasing difficulty each day.
- Today's puzzle categories include ways to personalize a car, people in an online forum, things that blink, and phrases ending with "__ alert."
- The solution for today's puzzle (#1189) groups words as follows: car personalization (bumper sticker, fuzzy dice, hood ornament, vanity plate), online forum participants (lurker, poster, spammer, troll), blinking things (cursor, eyelids, smoke detector, turn signal), and alert phrases (nerd, red, spoiler, weather).
- Players have up to four mistakes before the game ends and can shuffle the board to help identify connections; results can be shared on social media.
- The game was developed with the help of NYT associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu and is accessible on web and mobile platforms.
