Connections Hints for September 9, 2026: Clues and Answers

Today's Connections has four hidden groups of four. Start with a gentle nudge and only open more if you need it.

INCOMPREHENSIBLEELECTROMAGNETICNANOTECHNOLOGYARACHNOPHOBIAMICROBREWERYBEWILDERINGPICOSECONDHALLOWEENESOTERICMINIVANOPAQUEBRUTETASKSAWITG

Hint 1: One word from each group

Each of these words belongs to a different group.

Hint 2: Yellow (easiest) group theme

The yellow group is Hard To Understand.

Hint 3: Green group theme

The green group is Words With "small" Prefixes.

Hint 4: Blue group theme

The blue group is Horror Movies.

Hint 5: Purple (hardest) group theme

The purple group is Words Before "force".

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Hard To Understand

BEWILDERING, ESOTERIC, INCOMPREHENSIBLE, OPAQUE

Words With "small" Prefixes

MICROBREWERY, MINIVAN, NANOTECHNOLOGY, PICOSECOND

Horror Movies

ARACHNOPHOBIA, HALLOWEEN, IT, SAW

Words Before "force"

BRUTE, ELECTROMAGNETIC, G, TASK

About this puzzle

More about today's puzzle. Everything in this section can include the answer.

Why each word belongs in its group, with a short dictionary meaning where one exists.

Yellow (easiest): Hard To Understand

BEWILDERING: Very baffling, confusing, or perplexing, often due to a very large choice being available.
ESOTERIC: Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest, or...
INCOMPREHENSIBLE: Impossible or very difficult to understand.
OPAQUE: Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.

Green: Words With "small" Prefixes

MICROBREWERY: A small commercial brewery, often one serving a single pub at which it is physically located; in the United States, o...
MINIVAN: A small van, especially (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) one primarily used for family transport.
NANOTECHNOLOGY: The science and technology of creating nanoparticles and of manufacturing machines which have sizes within the range ...
PICOSECOND: (metrology) An SI unit of time equal to 10⁻¹² seconds. Symbol: ps

Blue: Horror Movies

ARACHNOPHOBIA: An abnormal or irrational fear of arachnids, especially spiders.
HALLOWEEN: The eve of All Hallows' Day; October 31st; celebrated (mostly in English-speaking countries) by children going door-t...
IT: One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.
SAW: A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.

Purple (hardest): Words Before "force"

BRUTE: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.
ELECTROMAGNETIC: Relating to electromagnetism.
G: (physics) A unit of gravitational acceleration.
TASK: A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.