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NYT Connections — October 19, 2026

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Hints — one at a time

Hint 1 of 5

Today's board moves from words for boiling with anger, to words for empty talk, to menu items at a fast-food chain, to words that hide birds at the end.

Hint 2 of 5

Yellow (easiest): each of these means to boil with anger or frustration.

Hint 3 of 5

Green: each of these describes empty, meaningless talk.

Hint 4 of 5

Blue: each of these follows "Mc" on the menu at a well-known fast-food chain.

Hint 5 of 5

Purple (hardest): each of these ends with the name of a bird hidden inside it.

The answer — spoilers!

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  • yellow

    Seethe

    BOIL · FUME · RAVE · STEAM

  • green

    All Talk

    BLATHER · GAS · HOT AIR · WIND

  • blue

    "Mc" Things At McDonald's

    FLURRY · MUFFIN · NUGGETS · RIB

  • purple

    Ending In Birds

    ALIBIS · BALLOON · ESCROW · MOHAWK

This puzzle by the numbers

Hardest group (purple)
Ending In Birds
Longest word on the board
BLATHER

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.