Connections #1,239
November 1, 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 MOLAR.
- Green: one of the four is SELF.
- Blue: one of the four is HEAD.
- Purple: one of the four is DOGGY.
Hint 2: the four categories
- Yellow: Kinds Of Teeth.
- Green: Kinds Of Love.
- Blue: Enthusiast.
- Purple: Synonyms For "soaked" With First Letter Changed.
Today's Connections groups, #1,239
The purple group
Purple today is Synonyms For "soaked" With First Letter Changed: DOGGY, MATURATED, TRENCHED, TRIPPING. 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 #1,238, October 31, 2026: Words Meaning Good That Sound Bad (GNARLY, KILLER, SICK, WICKED); Martini Specifications (DIRTY, DRY, SHAKEN, UP); Things With Strings (GUITAR, MARIONETTE, TASSEL, TENNIS RACKET); Starting With Dog Commands (DOWNFALL, SHAKESPEARE, SITCOM, STAYCATION). 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.
