NYT Connections Answers Today: Sunday, November 8, 2026 (#1246)
Stuck on today's Connections? Start with the nudges below and only open the next hint if you need it. The full solution stays hidden until the last hint. The FAQ at the very bottom spells out everything, so stop before it if you want to keep playing.
Hint 1: Nudges (no spoilers)
- Yellow: How you might describe someone who spends a lot of time lifting weights.
- Green: Things you might book before a big event, with a mirror in front of you.
- Blue: The things you need before you can say you truly understand something.
- Purple: Say them out loud and ignore the spelling. Dinner is hiding in there.
Hint 2: Show the category names
- Yellow: Muscular
- Green: Hair salon services
- Blue: Things that help make sense of a situation
- Purple: Vegetable homophones
Hint 3: Show all the answers
Each word sounds like a vegetable: CARAT = carrot, CHARRED = chard, KORN = corn, LEAK = leek.
Hint 4: Traps to avoid and a solving order (contains spoilers)
CUT is the decoy of the day: it is a hair service, but the salon group is complete with TRIM, BLOWOUT, COLOR and EXTENSIONS, so CUT belongs with the muscular words. CUT, COLOR and LEAK all have more than one meaning, so test the other meanings before you commit. KORN is also a band, but music is not a category here.
One way to play it: start with the understanding group (CLARITY, CONTEXT, INSIGHT and PERSPECTIVE are close synonyms). Then read the odd-looking words out loud to find the vegetables. With eight words left, count: the salon group already has four without CUT, so CUT joins BUILT, JACKED and RIPPED.
Frequently Asked Questions
Spoiler warning: the answers in this FAQ give away the full solution.
What are the NYT Connections answers for Sunday, November 8, 2026 (#1246)?
Yellow (muscular): BUILT, CUT, JACKED, RIPPED; Green (hair salon services): BLOWOUT, COLOR, EXTENSIONS, TRIM; Blue (things that help make sense of a situation): CLARITY, CONTEXT, INSIGHT, PERSPECTIVE; Purple (vegetable homophones): CARAT, CHARRED, KORN, LEAK.
What is the hardest group in Connections #1246?
The purple group, vegetable homophones. Each word sounds like a vegetable: CARAT (carrot), CHARRED (chard), KORN (corn) and LEAK (leek).
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Earlier Connections answers: Oct 24, 2026 (#1231).
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