Today's puzzle is pretty straightforward.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for November 2 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,240. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,239, 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
- Medicine cabinet
- Compass
- Fog machine
- Incense
- Waterfall
- Disco ball
- Nettle
- Hiking boots
- Dressing room
- Dry ice
- Water bottle
- Wind up
- Pique
- Kaleidoscope
- Humidifier
- Backpack
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Hiking
- 🟩 Green: Pissed
- 🟦 Blue: Foggy
- 🟪 Purple: Reflections
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: Things to bring on a trek
- 🟩 Green: Anger
- 🟦 Blue: Mist makers
- 🟪 Purple: Things with mirrors
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 November 2 for puzzle #1,240 are a bit easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.3 out of 5.
- 🟨 Things to bring on a trek: Backpack, compass, hiking boots, water bottle
- 🟩 Anger: Incense, nettle, pique, wind up
- 🟦 Mist makers: Dry ice, fog machine, humidifier, waterfall
- 🟪 Things with mirrors: Disco ball, dressing room, kaleidoscope, medicine cabinet
I went down the line today. Starting off with some hiking essentials for yellow with backpack, compass, hiking boots, and water bottle.
After that was a quartet of synonyms for green: incense, nettle, pique, and wind up.
I was scratching head over where to go next, when it hit me that fog machine and dry ice had something in common. After another look around the board, I realized waterfall and humidifier could be added to the mix for blue.
That left purple as today's rote fill with disco ball, dressing room, kaleidoscope, and medicine cabinet.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Kinds of teeth: Bicuspid, canine, incisor, molar
- 🟩 Kinds of love: Brotherly, puppy, self, unrequited
- 🟦 Enthusiast: Fiend, head, hound, lover
- 🟪 Synonyms for 'soaked' with first letter changed: Doggy, maturated, trenched, tripping
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,239 which had a difficulty rating of 2.6 out of 5.
I went down the line today. Starting off, I assumed that the three good boy-related words — canine, doggy, and puppy — was probably a red herring, and I was right. Once I saw molar, I realized canine was talking about those mouth bones that need different insurance. Incisor and bicuspid rounded out the rest of yellow.
I understood what the green category was, but struck out trying to include doggy alongside brotherly, puppy, and unrequited. Once I took another look around the board, I realized self was the real answer they were looking for. Aren't we all?
Then came blue with all the different flavors of fan culture: fiend, head, hound, and lover.
That left a particularly tough purple as today's rote fill with, doggy, maturated, trenched, and tripping. Or should I say, Soggy, Saturated, Drenched, and Dripping.
