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NYT Connections Hints for September 8

Blue completes CODE. Purple starts with a body part. This September 8, 2026 page is an original practice board in the Connections format, with four hints and a grid you can play.

Need the habit, not this date? The connections hint guide explains what each color is allowed to say. The live day is on hints today.

Hints

  1. Yellow hint

    Four oceans.

  2. Green hint

    Four continents.

  3. Blue hint

    The same system word follows all four.

  4. Purple hint

    The first letters of each word name a body part.

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September 8 is a map quiz that stops being a map. Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic are oceans. Asia, Africa, Europe, and Australia are continents, a subset, not every continent on the globe. Zip, bar, dress, and area take CODE. Handshake, lipstick, eyebrow, and footnote each start with a body part: hand, lip, eye, and foot. Indian is the ocean, not a continent, which is the usual one-away miss.

  1. Oceans

    ATLANTIC, PACIFIC, INDIAN, ARCTIC

    Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic are oceans.

  2. Continents

    ASIA, AFRICA, EUROPE, AUSTRALIA

    Asia, Africa, Europe, and Australia are continents.

  3. Words before CODE

    ZIP, BAR, DRESS, AREA

    Zip code, bar code, dress code, and area code.

  4. Start with a body part

    HANDSHAKE, LIPSTICK, EYEBROW, FOOTNOTE

    Handshake, lipstick, eyebrow, and footnote start with hand, lip, eye, and foot.