Today’s NYT Connections puzzle served up a delightful mix of sweetness, sass, and sea life — a playful balance between comfort and challenge that kept solvers nibbling for more!

Let’s dive into today’s groups and uncover how the clues connected so cleverly.

NYT Connections Puzzle Overview: 17 October 2025

NYT Connections Hints: 17 October 2025

Category 1:
  • Click this remotely to advance slides without touching the keyboard.
  • A small red dot you point at the screen with dramatic flourish.
  • The machine that throws the image onto the big screen.
  • The digital visuals themselves — your visual story.
Category 2:
  • Tiny statues meant to commemorate a place.
  • Small circular mementos you slip onto keys.
  • Magnetic reminders to stick on fridges.
  • Pictures of the place printed as keepsakes and mailed home.
Category 3:
  • The tiny hero who’s just a thumb in size (classic children’s tale).
  • A timid character who panics over the sky falling in.
  • A classic brave lad who often features in nursery rhymes and tall tales.
  • A very small girl who has adventures in some European folk stories.
Category 4:
  • A numeric scale used to classify wind force at sea.
  • The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture.
  • A measured value that tells you how hot it feels factoring humidity.
  • A calculated value that tells you how cold it feels factoring wind.

NYT Connections Answers: 17 October 2025

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Conclusion

Today’s puzzle rewards visual thinking — objects, characters, and precise technical terms. Two groups are tactile and straightforward (presentation kit and souvenirs), one is nostalgic storytelling, and the other is technical but pattern-based (weather jargon).

Solve flow: Lock in the presentation items first — they’re concrete and fast. Next, the souvenir items fall into place by where you’d buy them. The folktale names usually pop if you think classic nursery tales. Save the weather terms for last; say them aloud and imagine the instrument or concept each represents.