Here are today’s Connections hints and answers for NYT Connections No. 1,253 on Sunday, Nov. 15, 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: Can’t compete with this.
Green group hint: Here comes the bride.
Blue group hint: Fly high.
Purple group hint: Words relating to certain foods, with a twist.
Today’s Connections answers
Yellow group: Unmatched.
Green group: Wedding website sections.
Blue group: ____ plane.
Purple group: Ending in vegetables in the allium family.
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What are today’s Connections answers?
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The yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is unmatched.
The four answers are all-time, historic, record and unprecedented.
The green words in today’s Connections
The theme is wedding website sections.
The four answers are dress code, registry, RSVP and travel.
The blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is ____ plane.
The four answers are astral, Cartesian, inclined and jet.
The purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is ending in vegetables in the allium family.
The four answers are archive (chive), octonion (onion), rapscallion (scallion) and sleek (leek).
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 obvious guess — hey, those are four animals! — is almost always going to be wrong. I’ve compiled my favorite tips for Connections if you need a boost.
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. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can nerd out by following their progress, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.
