NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, October 19 (game #1226)

Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Sunday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and

<![CDATA[ <article> <div class="fancy-box"><div class="fancy_box-title">Looking for a different day?</div><div class="fancy_box_body"><p class="fancy-box__body-text">A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. <strong>If you're looking for Sunday's puzzle instead</strong> then click here: <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.techradar.com/gaming/nyt-connections-today-answers-hints-18-october-2026"><strong>NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, October 18 (game #1225)</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p></div></div><p>Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints. </p><p>What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily <a href="https://www.techradar.com/computing/websites-apps/nyt-strands-today-answers-hints-19-october-2026">Strands hints and answers</a> and <a href="https://www.techradar.com/computing/websites-apps/quordle-today-answers-clues-19-october-2026">Quordle hints and answers</a> articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's <a href="https://www.techradar.com/news/wordle-today">Wordle today</a> page covers the original viral word game.</p><p><em>SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.</em></p><h2 class="article-body__section" id="section-nyt-connections-today-game-1226-today-s-words"><span>NYT Connections today (game #1226) - today's words</span></h2><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style="max-width:1920px;"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="LmEjsnJr57LsYn8ZXtVjLZ" name="TR_nyt_connections-hints-1226" alt="NYT Connections hints for 1226 on a purple background" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/LmEjsnJr57LsYn8ZXtVjLZ-1920-80.png" mos="" align="middle" fullscreen="" width="1920" height="1080" attribution="" endorsement="" class="inline"></p></div></div><figcaption itemprop="caption description" class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder">(Image credit: New York Times)</span></figcaption></figure><p>Today's NYT Connections words are… </p><ul><li>MOHAWK</li><li>MUFFIN</li><li>HOT AIR</li><li>BALLOON</li><li>RAVE</li><li>WIND</li><li>FLURRY</li><li>STEAM</li><li>GAS</li><li>RIB</li><li>FUME</li><li>ALIBIS</li><li>BOIL</li><li>BLATHER</li><li>ESCROW</li><li>NUGGETS</li></ul><h2 class="article-body__section" id="section-nyt-connections-today-game-1226-hint-1-group-hints"><span>NYT Connections today (game #1226) - hint #1 - group hints</span></h2><p>What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?</p><ul><li><strong>YELLOW: </strong>Really angry</li><li><strong>GREEN: </strong>Mouthing off</li><li><strong>BLUE: </strong>Available at Burger King’s rival</li><li><strong>PURPLE: </strong>Avian finale</li></ul><p>Need more clues? </p><p>We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…</p><h2 class="article-body__section" id="section-nyt-connections-today-game-1226-hint-2-group-answers"><span>NYT Connections today (game #1226) - hint #2 - group answers</span></h2><p>What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?</p><ul><li><strong>YELLOW: </strong>SEETHE</li><li><strong>GREEN: </strong>ALL TALK</li><li><strong>BLUE: </strong>"MC" THINGS AT MCDONALD'S</li><li><strong>PURPLE: </strong>ENDING IN BIRDS</li></ul><p>Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.</p><div data-model-name="Dyson HushJet Mini Cool Fan,JBL Xtreme 5,LG OLED evo AI C6 55-inch TV (2026),DJI Lito X1,Dali Kupid,De'Longhi Dedica Duo" data-widget-type="multimodelreview" data-widget-title="TechRadar 5-star reviewed devices"></div><h2 class="article-body__section" id="section-nyt-connections-today-game-1226-the-answers"><span>NYT Connections today (game #1226) - the answers</span></h2><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style="max-width:1920px;"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="ZnzY3VJ4XKzUhYWLSgi2HZ" name="TR_nyt_connections-answers-1226" alt="NYT Connections answers for 1226 on a purple background" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZnzY3VJ4XKzUhYWLSgi2HZ-1920-80.png" mos="" align="middle" fullscreen="" width="1920" height="1080" attribution="" endorsement="" class="inline"></p></div></div><figcaption itemprop="caption description" class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder">(Image credit: New York Times)</span></figcaption></figure><p>The answers to today's Connections, game #1226, are…</p><ul><li><strong>YELLOW: SEETHE: </strong>BOIL, FUME, RAVE, STEAM</li><li><strong>GREEN: ALL TALK: </strong>BLATHER, GAS, HOT AIR, WIND</li><li><strong>BLUE: "MC" THINGS AT MCDONALD'S: </strong>FLURRY, MUFFIN, NUGGETS, RIB</li><li><strong>PURPLE: ENDING IN BIRDS: </strong>ALIBIS, BALLOON, ESCROW, MOHAWK</li></ul><ul><li><strong>My rating:</strong> Hard</li><li><strong>My score: </strong>1 mistake</li></ul><p>I took a very circuitous route to getting my first group today.</p><p>Thinking that BALLOON were a clue I connected STEAM, HOT AIR, GAS, and WIND, reasoning these were all things that, erm, made a balloon move? The 'One away' pop-up helped me look again and I realized that with the addition of BLATHER we had a quartet of words describing folks who are, as my Grandad used to say, all mouth and no trousers.</p><p>From here "MC" THINGS AT MCDONALD'S was easier to spot — although it did remind me that I have never had a McRIB, a delicacy that has only appeared on UK menus a couple of times since the 1980s.</p><iframe title="How did you do today?" description="Let me know in the comments below" minimumCommentCount="0" class="position-center" data-lazy-priority="low" data-lazy-src=""></iframe><h3 class="article-body__section" id="section-yesterday-s-nyt-connections-answers-sunday-october-18-2026-game-1225"><span>Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Sunday, October 18, 2026, game #1225)</span></h3><ul><li><strong>YELLOW: PLACES TO STORE CLOTHES: </strong>BUREAU, CHEST, TRUNK, WARDROBE</li><li><strong>GREEN: THINGS THAT COME IN STICKS: </strong>BUTTER, DEODORANT, DYNAMITE, INCENSE</li><li><strong>BLUE: FAMOUS PERFUMES: </strong>ANGEL, COCO, OBSESSION, OPIUM</li><li><strong>PURPLE: STARTING WITH THINGS THAT CLOUD THE AIR: </strong>FOGERTY, HAZEL, MISTER, VAPORETTO</li></ul><section class="article__schema-question"><h3>What is NYT Connections?</h3><article class="article__schema-answer"><p>NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.</p><p>On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.</p><p>It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.</p><p>It's playable for free via the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/games/" target="_blank">NYT Games site</a> on desktop or mobile.</p></article></section> </article> ]]>