Puzzle Overview
Here are today’s Connections hints and answers for NYT Connections No. 1,244 on Friday, Nov. 6, 2026.
Today’s Connections hints
Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough purple group.
Yellow group hint: How something is put together.
Green group hint: Dupe.
Blue group hint: Vroom!
Purple group hint: Hidden words relating to sight.
Solution Breakdown
Yellow group: Composition.
Green group: Copy.
Blue group: Kinds of trucks.
Purple group: Ending in parts of the eye.
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The yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is composition.
The four answers are constitution, fabric, makeup and structure.
The green words in today’s Connections
The theme is copy.
The four answers are backup, extra, replacement and space.
The blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is kinds of trucks.
The four answers are flatbed, pickup, semi and tanker.
The purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is ending in parts of the eye.
The four answers are hot rod (rod), Osiris (iris), traffic cone (cone) and woolens (lens).
How to play Connections
In Connections, you look at a grid of 16 words and pick four words that have a connection to one another. You do this four times until all 16 words in the puzzle are grouped. The tough part is that Times puzzle editor Wyna Liu chooses words that could fit in multiple groups.
The Times has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers.
