Connections Answer Today Oct 04 2026 #1315

Today's Full Answer

CONSIDERABLE AMOUNTBUNCH, HEAP, LOT, STACK

TABLE TENNIS NEEDSBALL, NET, PADDLE, TABLE

PARTS OF A JUDGE COSTUMECOLLAR, GAVEL, ROBE, WIG

SILENT ___AUCTION, FILM, PARTNER, TREATMENT

What Made Today's Purple Group Tricky

The purple group takes SILENT in front of AUCTION, FILM, PARTNER and TREATMENT. The sharpest trap is GAVEL, which belongs to the judge costume but is also the tool of an auctioneer, making a silent-auction pairing feel irresistible. STACK and HEAP both suggest physical piles rather than quantities, and TABLE appears in the table tennis group while also being furniture. COLLAR, ROBE and WIG are distinctive enough to anchor the costume group, so build outward from those three.

How to Play and Get Better at Connections

You're sorting 16 words into four groups of four that each share a hidden theme. Categories are color-coded by difficulty — yellow is usually the most literal, purple the most likely to involve wordplay or a double meaning. You get four mistakes before the puzzle ends, so it's worth locking in whichever group you're most certain about first rather than testing your least confident guess early.

Red herrings are intentional: most days include at least one word that looks like it obviously belongs to a group it's actually not in — if a group feels "too easy" to fill, double-check whether one of your four words is a plant for a different category.

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How we keep this accurate

The day's groups are pulled from the live puzzle at the midnight ET reset and confirmed by an editor.
Puzzle numbers in the archive were corrected to increment by exactly one per day — a previous version had inconsistent jumps (a data feed issue, not intentional).

Frequently Asked Questions

What time does Connections reset?

Midnight local time, based on the NYT Games server.

Who edits NYT Connections?

Wyna Liu, a crossword constructor and puzzle editor for The New York Times.

Where can I play Connections?

On the NYT Games website or through the official iOS/Android app.

What happens if I make four mistakes?

The puzzle ends and reveals the remaining groups — there's no way to keep guessing past four mistakes.

More NYT-Style Puzzles

Prefer to work it out yourself with a nudge instead of the full grid? Connections Hints (No Spoilers) reveals today's categories one clue at a time. If you like Connections' grouping format generally, Connections Unlimited lets you replay similar puzzles with no daily cap, and Harmonies Answers Today runs the same "sort into four groups" idea with a music theme. For other daily NYT-style puzzles, NYT Spelling Bee Answer, Letter Boxed Answer Today, and Strands Answers are all worth checking, and Squaredle Answers Today is a good pick if you want a different word-finding format.