Connections Hints for October 25, 2026
· No. 1,232
One hint per group, yellow to purple. Open only the group you're stuck on — the full solution stays hidden until you tap for it.
Hint 1 · Yellow group
Take something that is not yours, quickly and quietly, the way a shoplifter might.
Hint 2 · Green group
Picture the boxes in the dry goods aisle. Think about the shape of what you boil for dinner, not the sauce on top.
Hint 3 · Blue group
These are last names of made-up characters who all share one short first name. One talked his friends into whitewashing a fence, and one was famously tiny.
Hint 4 · Purple group
Think of a quick motion that makes a sharp click or crack. You might do it to keep a beat, and a center does it to start a play.
Show today’s answer
- Yellow (Steal): BOOST, PALM, POCKET, SWIPE
- Green (Pasta shapes): BOW TIE, ELBOW, SHELL, WAGON WHEEL
- Blue (Fictional Toms): RIPLEY, SAWYER, SWIFT, THUMB
- Purple (Things that can be snapped): FINGERS, FOOTBALL, GLOW STICK, RUBBER BAND
The body parts were the trap: palm, elbow, thumb and fingers looked like a tidy set, but each one belonged to a different group. Fingers joined the football, the glow stick and the rubber band as things you snap.
Today’s hints for other games
- Wordle3 hints, gentle to generous
- StrandsThe theme, the spangram, then first letters
- Contexto4 hints to the secret word
- PipsEasy, Medium and Hard, one domino at a time
- LA Times CrosswordEvery clue: first letter, then the answer
- Newsday CrosswordEvery clue: first letter, then the answer
- Washington Post CrosswordThe Post's daily is the LA Times puzzle
- JumbleThe four words, then the riddle
- CryptoquipA few letters, the first words, then the quip
- 7 Little WordsEvery clue: first letter, then the answer
Connections hints, day by day
How our Connections hints work
Yellow first, purple last
The hints follow the puzzle's own order from easiest to trickiest, so you can stop wherever you are.
A hint names the theme, not the words
It tells you what the four words have in common. Spotting which four is still your job.
The trap gets a warning
When a word looks like it belongs to two groups, the hint for the harder group says so.