NYT Connections Hints and Answer Today

Today’s Connections Hints — #1,226 (October 4, 2026)

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

• Yellow (Easiest): CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT
• Green (Easy): TABLE TENNIS NEEDS
• Blue (Tricky): PARTS OF A JUDGE COSTUME
• Purple (Trickiest): SILENT ___

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

Tap to reveal today’s Connections answers

Yellow — CONSIDERABLE AMOUNTBUNCH, HEAP, LOT, STACK

Green — TABLE TENNIS NEEDSBALL, NET, PADDLE, TABLE

Blue — PARTS OF A JUDGE COSTUMECOLLAR, GAVEL, ROBE, WIG

Purple — SILENT ___AUCTION, FILM, PARTNER, TREATMENT

Yesterday’s Connections Answers

October 3, 2026:

• Yellow — STARTING WITH TERMS FOR "TOILET": CAN OPENER, HEAD WAITER, JOHN DENVER, W.C. FIELDS
• Green — ENDING IN MUSICALS: ELBOW GREASE, FAT CATS, LINDA HAMILTON, SOMETHING WICKED
• Blue — STARTING WITH U.S. MUSEUMS: BROAD BEAN, GETTY IMAGES, MET HALFWAY, WHITNEY HOUSTON
• Purple — ENDING IN FANTASY CREATURES: DIET SPRITE, MERV GRIFFIN, NY GIANT, RIVER PHOENIX

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: Oct 4, 5:39 am ET.