Connections #1,248 has landed for Tuesday, November 10, 2026. If one of the groups is refusing to come together, work down the hints below and stop at the first one that unlocks it.
Our read of the board: sixteen plain words with no obvious giveaways, so expect at least one group that only makes sense once the others are gone. As always, the purple group is the one built to mislead; if you see an obvious category of five or six words, that is the trap.
Today's board
The sixteen words, in the order they appear on the board. No spoilers here.
ABRACADABRAONOMATOPOEIAAPOTHECARYFOOFARAWOXYMORONPROTOZOOLOGYHULLABALOOHABERDASHERBEEKEEPERSCRIVENERHYPERBOLEBROUHAHAWAINWRIGHTKERFUFFLEINVISIBILITYMETONYMY
Hints for today's Connections
Three levels of help. Level one nudges, level two points, level three names the categories one at a time.
Level 1 · The categories, by first letterYellow: starts with H, one wordGreen: starts with L, 2 wordsBlue: starts with O, 2 wordsPurple: starts with W, 6 words
Level 2 · One word from each groupYellow contains BROUHAHAGreen contains METONYMYBlue contains SCRIVENERPurple contains PROTOZOOLOGY
Level 3 · The category namesYellow category
HUBBUB
Green category
LITERARY DEVICES
Blue category
OLD-TIMEY OCCUPATIONS
Purple category
WORDS WITH FIVE OF ONE VOWEL
Today's Connections answers
The full solution to Connections #1,248 is behind the button, yellow to purple. Nothing is shown until you click.
▶ Reveal the answers to Connections #1,248
HUBBUB
BROUHAHA, FOOFARAW, HULLABALOO, KERFUFFLE
Yellow · the most straightforward group
LITERARY DEVICES
HYPERBOLE, METONYMY, ONOMATOPOEIA, OXYMORON
Green · usually a step harder
OLD-TIMEY OCCUPATIONS
APOTHECARY, HABERDASHER, SCRIVENER, WAINWRIGHT
Blue · where the red herrings start to bite
WORDS WITH FIVE OF ONE VOWEL
ABRACADABRA, BEEKEEPER, INVISIBILITY, PROTOZOOLOGY
Purple · the trickiest, often wordplay
Yesterday's Connections
Connections #1,247 on Monday, November 9 had these four groups (our full write-up is still up):
DECEITFUL SCHEMECON JOB, FLIMFLAM, RIP-OFF, SHELL GAME
JEANS DESCRIPTORSBOOTCUT, DISTRESSED, LOW-RISE, SKINNY
THINGS WITH SERRATED EDGESGRAPEFRUIT SPOON, MINT LEAF, STEAK KNIFE, TAPE DISPENSER
ENDING IN SEA CREATURESCARD SHARK, FUN SPONGE, GAMMA RAY, NAVY SEAL
How Connections works
Sixteen words hide four groups of four that share something in common. Pick four, submit, and the row locks in if you are right; four wrong submissions end the game. The groups are colour-coded by difficulty, yellow being the most direct and purple the most devious, and most boards include at least one word that could plausibly sit in two groups. Today's puzzle was edited by Wyna Liu at The New York Times.
A reliable habit: before submitting anything, find the five or six words that seem to belong to one obvious category and work out which of them is the imposter. Solving the strange group first is often easier than solving the obvious one.
Connections resets at midnight in your local time zone. We will be back tomorrow with the hints for #1,249.