Daily Puzzle Solutions
Here are today’s Connections hints and answers for NYT Connections No. 1,245 on Saturday, Nov. 7, 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 (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.
Yellow group hint: Blackbeard’s gold.
Green group hint: Tee is another kind.
Blue group hint: Fifty, nifty United States.
Purple group hint: Hidden words having to do with weather.
Today’s Connections answers
Yellow group: Pirate’s plunder.
Green group: Kinds of shirts.
Blue group: First words of US state names.
Purple group: Ends of storm types.
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The yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is pirate’s plunder.
The four answers are booty, bounty, spoils and treasure.
The green words in today’s Connections
The theme is kinds of shirts.
The four answers are Henley, polo, raglan and ringer.
The blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is first words of US state names.
The four answers are new, North, Rhode and South.
The purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is ends of storm types.
The four answers are cane (hurricane), clone (cyclone), Easter (nor’easter) and soon (monsoon).
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.
