Looking for a different day?
A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Tuesday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, November 10 (game #1248).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.
What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc’s Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (game #1249) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- SHREDDER
- HERBAL
- PATOOT
- WHOOPIE CUSHION
- GREEN
- FOLK
- BUBBLE
- ROUGH
- AFTERNOON
- RHEOSTATS
- TRADITIONAL
- TIRE
- SAND TRAP
- HOLISTIC
- AIR MATTRESS
- TEE BOX
NYT Connections today (game #1249) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW:Remedies
- GREEN:As seen across 18 holes
- BLUE:Blow these up
- PURPLE:Back to front in the end
Need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections today (game #1249) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW:KINDS OF MEDICINE
- GREEN:PARTS OF A GOLF COURSE
- BLUE:THINGS FILLED WITH AIR
- PURPLE:ENDING IN PALINDROMES
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #1249) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #1249, are…
- YELLOW: KINDS OF MEDICINE:FOLK, HERBAL, HOLISTIC, TRADITIONAL
- GREEN: PARTS OF A GOLF COURSE:GREEN, ROUGH, SAND TRAP, TEE BOX
- BLUE: THINGS FILLED WITH AIR:AIR MATTRESS, BUBBLE, TIRE, WHOOPIE CUSHION
- PURPLE: ENDING IN PALINDROMES:AFTERNOON, PATOOT, RHEOSTATS, SHREDDER
- My rating: Hard
- My score:2 mistakes
Like a typical English person I fell hook, line and sinker for what I thought was a nice collection of four tiles connected by tea — GREEN, HERBAL, BUBBLE and AFTERNOON.
Shocked that this quartet didn’t even give me a “one away” pop up, I decided BUBBLE must be something to do with blowing, but instead of TIRE I started off with PATOOT, even though I had no idea what a PATOOT was; I was imagining it was something you inflate. I’m still not entirely sure what it is, to be honest.
My one piece of halfway-decent gameplay was spotting the palindromes, but by then it was far too late to feel good about myself.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, November 10, 2026, game #1248)
- YELLOW: HUBBUB:BROUHAHA, FOOFARAW, HULLABALOO, KERFUFFLE
- GREEN: LITERARY DEVICES:HYPERBOLE, METONYMY, ONOMATOPOEIA, OXYMORON
- BLUE: OLD-TIMEY OCCUPATIONS:APOTHECARY, HABERDASHER, SCRIVENER, WAINWRIGHT
- PURPLE: WORDS WITH FIVE OF ONE VOWEL:ABRACADABRA, BEEKEEPER, INVISIBILITY, PROTOZOOLOGY
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final one, as you’ll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It’s a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
