New month, new Connections streak. For those looking to maintain their winning streak or start a fresh one on the New York Times Games' popular word puzzle, hints and answers are available for Sunday, November 1, 2026.
Today's Hints
For Sunday's puzzle, the following clues have been provided:
- Yellow: Your dentist knows these by name.
- Green: Not all affection involves romance.
- Blue: Add one of these after 'movie' or 'sports'.
- Purple: One letter away.
Additional hints suggest that one group features words with an altered first letter, and every group except the blue category contains the letter 'P'.
For those needing a more direct clue, a specific word from each category is revealed: 'Bicuspid' for yellow, 'Self' for green, 'Lover' for blue, and 'Doggy' for purple.
Category Themes
Understanding the underlying themes can simplify the puzzle. Today's categories are:
- Yellow: Kinds of Teeth
- Green: Kinds of Love
- Blue: Enthusiast
- Purple: Synonyms for 'Soaked' With First Letter Changed
Full Answer Revealed
The complete solution for the November 1st Connections puzzle includes the following groups:
- Yellow (Kinds of Teeth): Bicuspid, Canine, Incisor, Molar
- Green (Kinds of Love): Brotherly, Puppy, Self, Unrequited
- Blue (Enthusiast): Fiend, Head, Hound, Lover
- Purple (Synonyms for 'Soaked' With First Letter Changed): Doggy, Maturated, Trenched, Tripping
The puzzle presented a notable challenge for some players, particularly the purple group and the inclusion of 'bicuspid,' a type of premolar.
As with Wordle, a new Connections puzzle is released daily at midnight, offering a fresh opportunity to test your vocabulary and pattern recognition skills.