Today's puzzle asks if space should have been an email.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for October 28 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,235. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,234, 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
- Curiosity
- Rout
- Subject
- Attraction
- Attachment
- Spirit
- Body
- Coarse
- Crush
- Weigh
- Signature
- Interest
- Rode
- Opportunity
- Feelings
- Perseverance
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Like like
- 🟩 Green: Should have been a meeting
- 🟦 Blue: Red planet
- 🟪 Purple: Via
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: Romantic liking
- 🟩 Green: Components of an email
- 🟦 Blue: NASA Mars rovers
- 🟪 Purple: Homophones of paths
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 28 for puzzle #1,235 are a bit harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.1 out of 5.
- 🟨 Mess (with): Fiddle, meddle, tinker, trifle
- 🟩 Parts of the ear: Anvil, canal, drum, stirrup
- 🟦 ____ Bell: Diving, jingle, liberty, taco
- 🟪 Bell ____: Bottoms, jar, pepper, tower
I was letting my eyes wander when Perseverance clicked me on to journey to Mars. Thus, curiosity, opportunity and spirit.
Admittedly, I spotted the green and yellow sets, so I put the purple set together next without bothering to see the connection of coarse (course), rode (road), rout (route), and weigh (way).
Then I took on the email words of attachment, body, signature and subject.
Which left attraction, crush, feelings and interest as my final four.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Mess (with): Fiddle, meddle, tinker, trifle
- 🟩 Parts of the ear: Anvil, canal, drum, stirrup
- 🟦 ____ Bell: Diving, jingle, liberty, taco
- 🟪 Bell ____: Bottoms, jar, pepper, tower
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,234 which had a difficulty rating of 1.8 out of 5.
I managed a reverse rainbow, but it took a few strikes to get there.
Initially, I grabbed jingle bell, diving bell, liberty bell, and tinker bell. Strike one.
My reset was seeing jar and thinking bell jar. So, I gave bell bottoms, bell pepper, and bell tower together to get the blue set.
My second strike came when I swapped out jingle bell (the logic was jingle bells, not the singular version) for Taco Bell. I finally looked around and was able to see the yellow set, which helped me finally ring the blue bells by dropping tinker.
So, I put in the ear words next: anvil, canal, drum, and stirrup.
Which leaves fiddle, meddle, tinker, and trifle as my final four and the yellow group.
