Overview
Here are the daily hints and answers for NYT Connections No. 1,248 on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026.
Today’s Connections hints
Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the challenging purple group.
Yellow group hint: Make a fuss.
Green group hint: English majors will know these.
Blue group hint: Vintage jobs.
Purple group hint: Words featuring repeated vowels.
Today’s Connections answers
Yellow group category: Hubbub.
Green group category: Literary devices.
Blue group category: Old-timey occupations.
Purple group category: Words with five of one vowel.
The yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is hubbub.
The four answers are brouhaha, foofaraw, hullabaloo and kerfuffle.
The green words in today’s Connections
The theme is literary devices.
The four answers are hyperbole, metonymy, onomatopoeia and oxymoron.
The blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is old-timey occupations.
The four answers are apothecary, haberdasher, scrivener and wainwright.
The purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is words with five of one vowel.
The four answers are abracadabra, beekeeper, invisibility and protozoology.
How to play Connections
In Connections, players examine a grid of 16 words and identify four words that share a common link. This is repeated four times until all words are successfully grouped. The challenge lies in overlapping categories designed to trick solvers into false associations.
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