Connections #1,185
September 8, 2026Sixteen words and four groups of four. Yellow is usually the straightforward one and purple is usually wordplay, so the hints below go one step at a time.
Hint 1: one word from each group
- Yellow: one of the four is VIPER.
- Green: one of the four is BERET.
- Blue: one of the four is PURPLE.
- Purple: one of the four is DOVES.
Hint 2: the four categories
- Yellow: Classic American Performance Cars.
- Green: Features Of A Mime Costume.
- Blue: ___ Heart.
- Purple: Candy Bars Plus A Letter.
Today's Connections groups, #1,185
The purple group
Purple today is Candy Bars Plus A Letter: DOVES, MARSH, SKORT, TWIXT. Purple is the group the setters build last, and it is usually a hidden word, a sound, or a phrase pattern rather than a plain category. If two of its words looked like they belonged somewhere else, that was the point.
Yesterday's Connections
Connections #1,184, September 7, 2026: Quite The Saga (FABRICATION, FISH STORY, TALL TALE, YARN); Parts Of A Bra (CUP, HOOK, STRAP, UNDERWIRE); Associated With Pine Trees (CAR AIR FRESHENER, CHRISTMAS, NEEDLES, TURPENTINE); Starting With Disney Characters (PLUTONIUM, SCAR TISSUE, STITCH MARKER, TRAMPOLINE). Yesterday's page ›
Connections is four groups. This one is five words.
One real news sentence a day, twenty to thirty words, something that actually happened. Keep the five words a headline would keep and let the rest go. Here is yesterday's, solved.
At Camden Lock, a 71-year-old woman, Beatrice Millar, took off her shoes, jumped in after a drowning man and saved him by holding his head above water.
Five tries. blue is the right word in the right place, orange is one of the five sitting somewhere else, grey is not one of them. The result beats the process, a name or a job beats a place, and the little words never count.
How you finish decides which sticker you keep.
