Connections #1,207 hints and answers for Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Connections #1,207 trades on Wall Street in yellow, shakes everything in green, screens four gangster movies in blue, and hides month abbreviations at the starts of four words in purple. The grid is full of James Bond bait - a bond, a martini and Octopussy - and none of it groups together. For each group below: read the hint first, then show the category name when you want it, then the four words.
Group 1 - Yellow
Hint: all four are financial instruments you can buy, sell or trade: a bond is borrowed money, a future and an option are contracts on what comes later, and a stock is a share in a company.
SECURITIES
SECURITIES
Group 2 - Green
Hint: all four get shaken in normal use, as the category name jokes: an Etch A Sketch is shaken to clear it, a martini in the James Bond style, a spray paint can before spraying, and a tambourine to make it jingle.
THINGS THAT ARE SHAKEN (NOT STIRRED)
THINGS THAT ARE SHAKEN (NOT STIRRED)
Group 3 - Blue
Hint: all four are titles of gangster or mob films: Bugsy, Casino, Donnie Brasco and Scarface. Casino is the trap - it looks like gambling vocabulary until the other three titles line up beside it.
GANGSTER MOVIES
GANGSTER MOVIES
Group 4 - Purple
Hint: each word begins with the abbreviation of a month: DEC starts Decent (December), NOV starts Novelty (November), OCT starts Octopussy (October), and SEPT starts Septum (September).