NYT Connections — August 31, 2026

Today's board moves from everyday items you'd find packaged in a cylindrical container, to labels stamped on the outside of a package you're shipping, to historical titles once held by powerful rulers, and finally to words that pair with "bowl."

Yellow (easiest): each of these products is commonly sold rolled up or packaged inside a tube.

Green: each of these is a label you might see printed on a box to tell handlers how to treat it.

Blue: each of these was once a title held by a powerful ruler somewhere in world history.

Purple (hardest): each word completes the phrase "___ bowl," describing a dish, an event, or a dry, dusty disaster.