The NYT Connections answer today, November 10, 2026 (#1248), covers four groups: hubbub, literary devices, old-timey occupations and words with five of one vowel.
Looking for today’s NYT Connections hints or the Connections answer for November 10, 2026? Start with the hints, which run from the easiest group to the hardest, and scroll to the solution only when you are ready. Every tile in this grid is a long word, and several could fit more than one category.
- Yellow hint: These words all describe a loud, chaotic fuss.
- Green hint: Writers use these techniques to make language vivid or striking.
- Blue hint: These are jobs that mostly belong in history books.
- Purple hint: Ignore meaning and count letters. One vowel repeats five times in each word.
Yellow, HUBBUB: BROUHAHA, FOOFARAW, HULLABALOO, KERFUFFLE. All four mean a noisy commotion.
Green, LITERARY DEVICES: HYPERBOLE, METONYMY, ONOMATOPOEIA, OXYMORON. Each is a named figure of speech.
Blue, OLD-TIMEY OCCUPATIONS: APOTHECARY, HABERDASHER, SCRIVENER, WAINWRIGHT. An apothecary dispensed medicines, a haberdasher sold sewing goods and men’s clothing, a scrivener copied documents by hand, and a wainwright built wagons.
Purple, WORDS WITH FIVE OF ONE VOWEL: ABRACADABRA (five A’s), BEEKEEPER (five E’s), INVISIBILITY (five I’s), PROTOZOOLOGY (five O’s).
How to solve it: start with purple, because it ignores meaning entirely. BEEKEEPER reads like an occupation and is the tile most likely to pull a solver into blue. With the four purple words removed, the other twelve split into four loud words, four figures of speech, and four old trades.
For another grid built on tricky overlaps, see our September 2 Connections answers (#1179).
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