Find hints, categories, and answers for the New York Times Connections puzzle #868 released on October 26, 2025. The puzzle challenges players to group words based on thematic connections, with categories including instruments, Muhammad Ali quote words, contests, and words with diminutive suffixes.
Looking for a hint for today’s Connections puzzle? Below, we have clues to help you unlock whichever category has you stumped for the puzzle on October 26, 2025. Connections first launched on the New York Times in June 2023.
The premise is deceptively simple: Players have to find the thematic connection of four groups of four words ... without making more than four mistakes. Today’s Connections has categories about the band, the GOAT and more. Below are the hints, categories and answers for today’s Connections game, puzzle #868, on October 26. A hint for each Connections category today, October 26 Yellow group hint: Music makers Green group hint: The Greatest Blue group hint: Competitions Purple group hint: Smaller versions A word in each Connections category today, October 26 Yellow group word: Wind Green group word: Bee Blue group word: Beauty Purple group word: Doggy Connections categories today, October 26 Yellow group category: Kinds of instruments Green group category: Words in a famous Muhammad Ali quote Blue group category: Kinds of contests Purple group category: Words with diminutive suffixes Here are the answers to Connections today, October 26 What are the yellow words in today’s Connections? Kinds of instruments: Brass, percussion, string, wind What are the green words in today’s Connections? Words in a famous Muhammad Ali quote: Bee, butterfly, float, sting What are the blue words in today’s Connections? Kinds of contests: Beauty, popularity, staring, talent What are the purple words in today’s Connections? Words with diminutive suffixes: Doggy, droplet, kitchenette, starling
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