NYT Connections Answer Today (#1204) – 27 Sep 2026 Solution & Hints
- About Today’s Connections
- The 16 Words
- Definitions of the 16 Words
- General Hints
- Category Titles
- One Word per Category
- Complete Solution (Click to Reveal)
About Today’s Connections
Puzzle #1204 (published 27 Sep 2026). Sort 16 words into four groups of four, based on a hidden connection. Some words look like they belong together and don’t — that’s by design.
The 16 Words
Here are the 16 words, sorted alphabetically to avoid spoilers:
- Banquette
- BBQing
- Booth
- Bronze
- Carrier
- Chair
- Clay
- Homing
- Lohan
- Marble
- Network
- Operator
- Plaster
- Provider
- Stool
- Wu-Tang
Definitions of the 16 Words
| Banquette | A long upholstered bench, often fixed against a wall, used as seating in restaurants or cozy dining nooks. |
| BBQing | The act of cooking food slowly over an open flame or hot coals, typically outdoors. |
| Booth | A partitioned seating area enclosed by high-backed benches, common in diners and pubs. |
| Bronze | A reddish-brown metal alloy of copper and tin, long favored for casting statues and coins. |
| Carrier | A company that transmits calls and data over its own communications infrastructure. |
| Chair | A single seat with a back, typically built for one person, found in nearly every room of a home. |
| Clay | A fine-grained natural earth that turns pliable when wet and hardens when fired or dried, used in pottery and sculpture. |
| Homing | Describes an animal’s instinct, or a device’s mechanism, for finding its way back to a specific location. |
| Lohan | A term for an enlightened Buddhist disciple often depicted in East Asian religious art; also a well-known celebrity surname. |
| Marble | A metamorphic rock prized by sculptors for its ability to take a smooth, often veined polish. |
| Network | A system of interconnected lines or infrastructure that carries signals or data between points. |
| Operator | A person or company that runs or manages a particular system or service, such as a phone line. |
| Plaster | A soft, moldable building or sculpting material that hardens as it dries, often used for casts and wall reliefs. |
| Provider | A company or individual that supplies a particular good or service to customers. |
| Stool | A backless seat, often perched at a counter or bar, typically resting on three or four legs. |
| Wu-Tang | A legendary hip-hop collective from Staten Island, whose name also nods to a storied style of martial arts lore. |
General Hints
- Yellow: Think about what an artist might shape or mold long before it hardens into a finished piece.
- Green: Where you might plant yourself while you wait for your order to arrive at a restaurant.
- Blue: Companies you might end up calling about a dropped signal or a sluggish connection.
- Purple: Look past the whole word here — the tail end of each one belongs to a different chapter of history entirely.
Category Titles
- 🟨 Yellow: Sculpture Media
- 🟩 Green: Restaurant Seating Options
- 🟦 Blue: Telecom
- 🟪 Purple: Ending in Chinese Dynasties
One Word per Category
- 🟨 Yellow: Clay
- 🟩 Green: Booth
- 🟦 Blue: Network
- 🟪 Purple: Wu-Tang
Complete Solution
The full breakdown is below — tap to reveal all four groups:
[CLICK TO REVEAL: Full Solution]
NYT Connections #1204 — Full Groups
- 🟨 Yellow: Sculpture Media → BRONZE, CLAY, MARBLE, PLASTER
- 🟩 Green: Restaurant Seating Options → BANQUETTE, BOOTH, CHAIR, STOOL
- 🟦 Blue: Telecom → CARRIER, NETWORK, OPERATOR, PROVIDER
- 🟪 Purple: Ending in Chinese Dynasties → BBQING, HOMING, LOHAN, WU-TANG
The purple group is the real trap today — those endings look like ordinary word fragments until you notice they’re all borrowed from dynasties that ruled China centuries apart.
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