Today's puzzle pulls your leg about famous Disney characters in lumberjack lingerie.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for September 7 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,184. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,183, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.
Alternatively, visit our how to play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.
What is Connections
Solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.
Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Today's Connection Grid and Words
- Needles
- Trampoline
- Christmas
- Cup
- Plutonium
- Turpentine
- Yarn
- Scar Tissue
- Car air freshener
- Stitch marker
- Fabrication Hook
- Tall tale
- Strap
- Fish story
- Underwire
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Pulling your leg
- 🟩 Green: Bustier
- 🟦 Blue: Lumberjacks
- 🟪 Purple: Mickey ears
Today's Connections Group Hints
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Quite the saga
- 🟩 Green: Parts of a bra
- 🟦 Blue: Associated with pine trees
- 🟪 Purple: Starting with Disney characters
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Today's Connections answers
The Connections answers on September 7 for puzzle #1,184 are a bit easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.5 out of 5.
- 🟨 Quite the saga: Fabrication, fish story, tall tale, yarn
- 🟩 Parts of a bra: Cup, hook, strap, underwire
- 🟦 Associated with pine trees: Car air freshener, Christmas, needles, turpentine
- 🟪 Starting with Disney characters: Plutonium, scar tissue, stitch marker, trampoline
I initially struck out today trying to connect all the knitting-related clues, and that got me thinking of other meanings of yarn. I realized fabrication, tall tale, and fish story could be lumped in with it, which solved yellow.
Anyone who grew up AFAB has a horror story or two about underwire, so that clue got me thinking about bras. I started looking for other components of those damned contraptions, and came up with cup, hook, and strap to solve green.
Blue was a little tricky. After staring at the puzzle for ages, it finally clicked the Christmas and car air freshener both related to trees. Needles was easy enough to spot, but I didn't realize turpentine was made from pine trees. In my defense, it's called pine tar in Stardew Valley.
That left purple as today's rote fill with plutonium, scar tissue, stitch marker, and trampoline.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Unrestricted permission: Blank check, carte blanche, free reign, full authority
- 🟩 Places to insert something into on a computer: Card slot, headphone jack, optical drive, USB port
- 🟦 Abbreviations followed by redundant word: ATM machine, LCD display, PIN number, UPC code
- 🟪 Ending with ways to carve a slice: Court scribe, director's cut, pizza slice, sat score
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,183, which had a difficulty rating of 3 out of 5.
As a former copy editor and owner of a CAC (who frequently called it a CAC card just to piss off their boss), I saw PIN number and knew my pedantry would come in handy for today's puzzle. I rounded out the rest of the blue category with ATM machine, LCD display, and UPC code.
After that, I noticed card slot, headphone jack, optical drive, and USB port all had to do with computers, and that was green solved.
With the easiest category still left, I figured that would be the best place to jump to next. After taking another look around the board, I spotted four synonyms: blank check, carte blanche, free reign, and full authority.
That left purple as today's rote fill with court scribe, director's cut, pizza slice, and SAT score.
