The NYT Connections puzzle for Saturday, July 11, 2026, is #1126. All four group answers are below. Three spoiler-free hints come first for solvers still working through the board.
Hints Before the Answers
Hint 1: One group is a set of adjectives that all describe undisturbed water – think glassy lake, not rough sea.
Hint 2: One group contains only characters from a single Pixar film franchise – and WOODY is not the trap you think he is.
Hint 3: The purple group requires you to think about the alphabet itself. Each word contains a doubled letter, and that letter’s position in the alphabet matches the number of times something specific occurs. Work out what A, B, C, and D have in common numerically.
Today’s NYT Connections Answers – July 11, 2026
Yellow – Circus Equipment
CANNON, STILTS, TRAPEZE, UNICYCLE
Green – Undisturbed, As Water
CALM, FLAT, GLASSY, STILL
Blue – “Toy Story” Characters
BO PEEP, JESSIE, SLINKY, WOODY
Purple – Double Letters Appearing in That Letter’s Alphabetical Position
AARDVARK, BOCCE, EBBING, TWIDDLE
The purple group is today’s standout. Each word contains a doubled letter, and that double letter falls at the position in the alphabet that corresponds to the number of that letter’s place: AARDVARK has double A, and A is the first letter of the alphabet; EBBING has double B, and B is the second; BOCCE has double C, and C is the third; TWIDDLE has double D, and D is the fourth. It is the kind of category that reads as obvious the moment it clicks – and genuinely invisible until it does.
The main trap on today’s board is STILL. It reads immediately as a Toy Story character (it is not) or a circus prop (also no). It belongs firmly in the green water group alongside CALM, FLAT, and GLASSY – all adjectives describing an undisturbed surface. CANNON is the secondary trap: it is circus equipment here, not a water sport or a military term.
The blue group is the most accessible once you commit to the Toy Story frame. BO PEEP, JESSIE, SLINKY, and WOODY all appear across the franchise’s four films and two short collections. WOODY, being a common English word, is the intended misdirect – the board is built so that solvers who do not immediately land on the Toy Story theme will try to place him elsewhere first.
Yesterday’s Connections puzzle (#1125, July 10, 2026) is solved in our July 10 answer guide. NYT Connections resets daily at midnight ET and is free to play at the New York Times Games site. Come back tomorrow for the July 12 solutions.
