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NYT Connections — October 18, 2026

Hints — one at a time

Hint 1 of 5

Today's board moves from furniture that holds your clothes, to things that come in stick form, to famous fragrance names, and finally to words hiding something that fogs up the air.

Hint 2 of 5

Yellow (easiest): each of these is a piece of furniture used to store clothing.

Hint 3 of 5

Green: each of these commonly comes in stick form.

Hint 4 of 5

Blue: each of these is the name of a famous perfume.

Hint 5 of 5

Purple (hardest): each of these begins with a word for something that clouds or fogs the air — fog, haze, mist, vapor.

The answer — spoilers!

Reveal the full answer

yellow
Places To Store Clothes
BUREAU · CHEST · TRUNK · WARDROBE
green
Things That Come In Sticks
BUTTER · DEODORANT · DYNAMITE · INCENSE
blue
Famous Perfumes
ANGEL · COCO · OBSESSION · OPIUM
purple
Starting With Things That Cloud The Air
FOGERTY · HAZEL · MISTER · VAPORETTO

This puzzle by the numbers

Hardest group (purple): Starting With Things That Cloud The Air
Longest word on the board: DEODORANT

Counted from our own archive of NYT Connections answers — not published anywhere else.

A solved Connections-style board: sixteen word tiles sorted into four coloured rows of four — fruits, gemstones, instruments and planets — A solved Connections grid: four groups of four, one colour each. Example board, not today’s puzzle.