NYT Connections — August 11, 2026
Hints — one at a time
Hint 1 of 5
Today's board moves from words for being finished for good, to a lineup of TV channels, to the rhythm of an auction, and ends with a set of sound-alike body parts.
Hint 2 of 5
Yellow (easiest): each word means someone or something is finished, with no way out — cooked, in other words.
Hint 3 of 5
Green: these are all channels you'd find on a standard cable package, none of them premium or streaming-only.
Hint 4 of 5
Blue: listen for the phrases and repeated calls a fast-talking auctioneer uses while working up to a sale.
Hint 5 of 5
Purple (hardest): every entry sounds just like a part of the face, even though it's spelled completely differently.
The answer — spoilers!
Reveal the full answer
Doomed
DONE · SUNK · THROUGH · TOAST
Basic Cable Channels
BET · BRAVO · HISTORY · USA
Words in an Auctioneer's Chant
GOING · ONCE · SOLD · TWICE
Homophones of Facial Features
AYE · HARE · KNOWS · TUNG
This puzzle by the numbers
- Homophones of Facial Features
- THROUGH
Counted from our own archive of NYT Connections answers — not published anywhere else.
