NYT Connections Hints and Answer Today

Today’s Connections Hints — #1,153 (August 11, 2026)

Here is what links each group, from the easiest (yellow) to the trickiest (purple). Read only as far as you need.

• Yellow (Easiest): DOOMED
• Green (Easy): BASIC CABLE CHANNELS
• Blue (Tricky): WORDS IN AN AUCTIONEER'S CHANT
• Purple (Trickiest): HOMOPHONES OF FACIAL FEATURES

Still stuck? One word in the purple group is AYE.

Tap to reveal today’s Connections answers

Yellow — DOOMEDDONE, SUNK, THROUGH, TOAST

Green — BASIC CABLE CHANNELSBET, BRAVO, HISTORY, USA

Blue — WORDS IN AN AUCTIONEER'S CHANTGOING, ONCE, SOLD, TWICE

Purple — HOMOPHONES OF FACIAL FEATURESAYE, HARE, KNOWS, TUNG

Yesterday’s Connections Answers

August 10, 2026:

• Yellow — HAPHAZARDLY: ANY OLD HOW, AT RANDOM, HELTER-SKELTER, WILLY-NILLY
• Green — WAYS TO RECEIVE EVENT TICKETS: MAIL DELIVERY, MOBILE TICKET, PRINT-AT-HOME, WILL CALL
• Blue — SECTIONS ON AN INVOICE: BALANCE DUE, BILL TO, ORDER NUMBER, UNIT PRICE
• Purple — FAMOUS GOATEES: BILLY GOAT, COLONEL SANDERS, DOCTOR STRANGE, THE DEVIL

How Connections Works

NYT Connections gives you 16 words. Sort them into four groups of four that share something. Yellow is the easiest group and purple is the hardest. You get four wrong guesses before the game ends. A new puzzle drops at midnight Eastern every day.

Answers come from the official New York Times puzzle data and refresh automatically at midnight Eastern. Last checked: Aug 11, 1:39 am ET.