Connections Index Today: Responses from November 7, No. 1,245

Here are today’s Connections tips and answers for NYT Connections #1,245 for Saturday, November 7, 2026.

Today’s Hookup Tips

Here are four clues for today’s Connections puzzle groupings, ordered from the easiest yellow group to the difficult (and sometimes weird) purple group.

Yellow group index: Blackbeard’s gold.

Green group index: The tee is another type.

Blue group index: Fifty, fifty United States.

Purple group index: Hidden words related to the weather.

Answers to Today’s Connections

Yellow group: Pirate plunder.

Green group: Kinds of shirts.

Blue group: First words of American state names.

Purple group: Ends of storm types.

CNET publishes daily answers and tips for the New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition, and Strands puzzles.

What are today’s Connections answers?

Yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is pirate plunder.

The four answers are Loot, Bounty, Loot, and Treasure.

Green words in today’s Connections

The theme is kinds of shirts.

The four answers are Henley, polo, raglan and ringer.

Blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is the first words of the names of American states.

The four answers are new, North, Rhode and South.

Purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is the end of storm types.

The four answers are cane (hurricane), clone (cyclone), Easter (nor’easter) and soon (monsoon).

How to play Connections

In Connections, you look at a grid of 16 words and choose four words that are related to each other. You do this four times until all 16 words of the puzzle are grouped together. The hard part is that Times puzzle editor Wyna Liu chooses words that can fit into multiple groups. The obvious guess: Hey, those are four animals! – will almost always be false. I’ve compiled my favorite Connections tips if you need a boost.

The Times has a login bot, like Wordle’s. Go there after playing to receive a numerical score and have the program analyze your answers. Players registered in the Times Games section can go wild by tracking their progress, including the number of completed puzzles, win rate, number of times they achieved a perfect score, and their winning streak.

Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, CNET editor-in-chief, journalist and pop culture enthusiast, is co-author of “Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the ’70s and ’80s,” as well as “The Totally Sweet ’90s.” She has been a journalist since 1989 and works for Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune and NBC News Digital. She is part of Generation X in terms of date of birth, words and deeds. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she’ll be first in line.

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