Connections #1,224 hints and answers for Saturday, October 17, 2026
Connections #1,224 ends in four languages at once: every purple word completes a famous name after the word LA. 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 the sounds and signals a phone makes at you: a warning, a bell tone, a short bright bell sound, and the network test named after a sonar sound.
DIGITAL NOTIFICATIONS
DIGITAL NOTIFICATIONS
Group 2 - Green
Hint: all four can describe or follow a photograph: a paper copy, a single camera attempt, a quick informal one, and a frozen frame from a film.
PHOTO
PHOTO
Group 3 - Blue
Hint: all four go in front of CRAB: a violin-playing one, a solitary one in a borrowed shell, the giant Alaskan one, and a white winter one.
KINDS OF CRABS
KINDS OF CRABS
Group 4 - Purple
Hint: each word completes a famous name after LA: a Puccini opera, the tar pits in Los Angeles, the capital of Bolivia, and the opera house in Milan.