Today's puzzle is a vocabulary test.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for November 10 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,248. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,247, 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
- Abracadabra
- Onomatopoeia
- Apothecary
- Foofaraw
- Oxymoron
- Protozoology
- Hullabaloo
- Haberdasher
- Beekeeper
- Scrivener
- Hyperbole
- Brouhaha
- Wainwright
- Kerfuffle
- Invisibility
- Metonymy
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Melee
- 🟩 Green: Literary
- 🟦 Blue: Work
- 🟪 Purple: AEIOU
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: Hubbub
- 🟩 Green: Literary devices
- 🟦 Blue: Old-timey occupations
- 🟪 Purple: Words with five of one vowel
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 10 for puzzle #1,248 are the same difficulty as yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.3 out of 5.
- 🟨 Deceitful scheme: Con job, flimflam, rip-off, shell game
- 🟩 Jeans descriptors: Bootcut, distressed, low-rise, skinny
- 🟦 Things with serrated edges: Grapefruit spoon, mint leaf, steak knife, tape dispenser
- 🟪 Ending in sea creatures: Card shark, fun sponge, gamma ray, navy seal
Haberdasher was my way into the puzzle today and scrivener confirmed the jobs for me alongside wainwright and apothecary. For those who may not know, a haberdasher deals in men's clothes, a scrivener prepares official documents, a wainwright repairs wagons, and an apothecary dispenses medicines.
Next up, I went after onomatopoeia, which put me in mind of literary words, which is why I grabbed metonymy, oxymoron and hyperbole.
I had seen the hubbub, so I skipped it in favor of the vowels of abracadabra, beekeeper, invisibility, and protozoology.
Which leaves brouhaha, foofaraw, hullabloo, and kerfuffle.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Deceitful scheme: Con job, flimflam, rip-off, shell game
- 🟩 Jeans descriptors: Bootcut, distressed, low-rise, skinny
- 🟦 Things with serrated edges: Grapefruit spoon, mint leaf, steak knife, tape dispenser
- 🟪 Ending in sea creatures: Card shark, fun sponge, gamma ray, navy seal
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,247 which had a difficulty rating of 2.3 out of 5.
It's an ordeal trying to find women's jeans when you're damn near six feet tall, so green stood out to me immediately today with bootcut, distressed, low-rise, and skinny.
After that I managed to spot the easiest category, yellow, with con job, flimflam, rip-off, and shell game.
I floundered for a bit before I realized that grapefruit spoon, mint leaf, steak knife, and tape dispenser all shared pointy bits.
That left purple as today's rote fill with card shark, fun sponge, gamma ray, and navy seal.
