Connections · Hints and answers

Connections #1,230 hints and answers for Friday, October 23, 2026

Edited by Wyna Liu · Groups listed easiest to hardest: yellow, green, blue, purple

Connections #1,230 mixes a physics formula with a tap you give a phone. 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 describe people who say exactly what they mean, with no sugarcoating.

FORTHRIGHT

DIRECT · FRANK · OPEN · VOCAL

Group 2 - Green

Hint: all four are things you deliberately add to a computer so it can do more, or do it better.

THINGS YOU INSTALL ON A COMPUTER

DRIVER · EXTENSION · PLUGIN · UPDATE

Group 3 - Blue

Hint: physics class. In the formula for power, work is one of these multiplied by another, and then divided by the last one.

QUANTITIES IN A FORMULA FOR POWER

DISTANCE · FORCE · POWER · TIME

Group 4 - Purple

Hint: each word goes in front of the same four-letter word: a social-media heart, a gentle affectionate pat, a bugged phone line, and a band that turns it up to eleven.

___ TAP

DOUBLE · LOVE · PHONE · SPINAL

Next on the board

Strands →

Theme clue: "None of your beeswax!"