Today's puzzle has a lot of traps; be wary.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for November 7 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,245. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,244, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.
Alternatively, visit our how to play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.
What is Connections
Solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.
Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Today's Connection Grid and Words
- Polo
- Easter
- New
- Clone
- Rhode
- Ringer
- Soon
- Treasure
- Henley
- Bounty
- North
- Cane
- Spoils
- South
- Raglan
- Booty
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Jolly Roger
- 🟩 Green: Fashion
- 🟦 Blue: East Coast
- 🟪 Purple: Weather
Today's Connections Group Hints
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Pirate's plunder
- 🟩 Green: Kinds of shirts
- 🟦 Blue: First words of U.S. state names
- 🟪 Purple: Ends of storm types
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Today's Connections answers
The Connections answers on November 7 for puzzle #1,245 are much harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 3 out of 5.
- 🟨 Composition: Constitution, fabric, makeup, structure
- 🟩 Copy: Backup, extra, replacement, spare
- 🟦 Kinds of trucks: Flatbed, pickup, semi, tanker
- 🟪 Ending in parts of the eye: Hot rod, osiris, traffic cone, woolens
I took a strike chasing an island theme with Easter and Rhode. So my reset was the shirts with raglan, polo, henley and ringer. There's a second "copy" trap in this puzzle, which is more than most Connections puzzles, which usually only have one.
I stuck with Rhode to find the state names with north, south and new.
By now, the plunder words were obvious: booty, bounty, spoils and treasure, so I threw in the storm words of hurricane, cyclone, nor'easter, and monsoon in the third spot.
This left the treasure as my final four.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Composition: Constitution, fabric, makeup, structure
- 🟩 Copy: Backup, extra, replacement, spare
- 🟦 Kinds of trucks: Flatbed, pickup, semi, tanker
- 🟪 Ending in parts of the eye: Hot rod, osiris, traffic cone, woolens
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,244 which had a difficulty rating of 1.5 out of 5.
I solved today's puzzle somewhat backwards in that I saw the trucks right away and would have sworn it was the yellow set. I spotted the true yellow and green pretty quickly as well.
So I actually slapped in the purple set first without seeing what it was, since I had solved the others so fast. That was hot rod, osiris, traffic cone, and woolens. Not sure if anyone else is bothered by this, but I find myself annoyed when clues are a mix of two words and single words, or, as is usually the case, three of one kind and one outlier. Just me?
Anyway, I put constitution, fabric, makeup, and structure next, thinking this would be the blue set. I was quite surprised it was the yellow.
I put the trucks in cautiously and again, surprise, it was blue with flatbed, pickup, semi and tanker.
Which leaves backup, extra, replacement and spare as my final four.
