Today's puzzle is not lovin' it while talking trash to the birds.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for October 19 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,226. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,225, 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
- Mohawk
- Muffin
- Hot air
- Balloon
- Rave
- Wind
- Flurry
- Steam
- Gas
- Rib
- Fume
- Alibis
- Boil
- Blather
- Escrow
- Nuggets
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Big mad
- 🟩 Green: Blustering
- 🟦 Blue: Lovin' it
- 🟪 Purple: Ending in feathered friends
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: Seethe
- 🟩 Green: All talk
- 🟦 Blue: 'MC' things at McDonald's
- 🟪 Purple: Ending in birds
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 October 19 for puzzle #1,225 are a bit easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.3 out of 5.
- 🟨 Seethe: Boil, fume, rave, steam
- 🟩 All talk: Blather, gas, hot air, wind
- 🟦 'Mc' things at McDonald's: Flurry, muffin, nuggets, rib
- 🟪 Ending in birds: Alibis, balloon, escrow, mohawk
I've had many a McDonald's breakfast sandwich in my day, yet it still took me an embarrassingly long time to throw muffin into the mix once I saw nuggets, rib, and flurry.
With blue out of the way, I jumped to the easiest category with a quartet of synonyms for when someone's really pissed off: boil, fume, rave, and steam.
I'm no stranger to blustering either, so it was easy enough to spot blather, gas, hot air, and wind for green.
That left purple as today's rote fill with alibis, balloon, escrow, and mohawk.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Places to store clothes: Bureau, chest, trunk, wardrobe
- 🟩 Things that come in sticks: Butter, deodorant, dynamite, incense
- 🟦 Famous perfumes: Angel, coco, obsession, opium
- 🟪 Starting with things that cloud the air: Fogerty, hazel, mister, vaporetto
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,225 which had a difficulty rating of 2.5 out of 5.
I went down the line today, starting with the easiest category first. I thought bureau, chest, trunk, and wardrobe all served a similar function, so they jumped out at me initially.
From there I was a little stuck trying to link up words with multiple vowel sounds before I realized the answer was simpler than that. Butter, deodorant, dynamite, and incense all share the same form factor.
With green out of the way, I realized I'd seen angel and obsession advertised at Ulta a lot and went looking for some other famous scents. I sniffed out coco and opium to solve blue.
That left purple as today's rote fill with fogerty, hazel, mister, and vaporetto.
