Connections #1,246 hints and answers for Sunday, November 8, 2026
Connections #1,246 saves its best trick for last again: CARAT, CHARRED, KORN and LEAK look like a jeweler, a grill, a metal band and a plumber's problem, until you say each one out loud and hear a vegetable hiding inside it. The rest of the board is fair sailing - four ways to describe a gym-built physique, four things done to your hair in a salon chair, and four things that help a confusing situation finally make sense. For each group below: read the hint first, then show the category name when you want it, then the four words, one group at a time.
Group 1 - Yellow
Hint: four words for a body built in the gym: the sculpted look, the lean and defined one, and two slang terms for someone carrying serious muscle.
MUSCULAR
MUSCULAR
Group 2 - Green
Hint: four things done to your hair in the salon chair: the styled finish, the dye job, the added length, and the tidy-up cut at the ends.
HAIR SALON SERVICES
HAIR SALON SERVICES
Group 3 - Blue
Hint: four things that turn confusion into understanding: a clear view of the facts, the background around them, a sudden flash of insight, and a point of view to see them from.
THINGS THAT HELP MAKE SENSE OF A SITUATION
THINGS THAT HELP MAKE SENSE OF A SITUATION
Group 4 - Purple
Hint: say each one out loud and listen for a vegetable: a gem unit that sounds like a carrot, a word for burned that sounds like chard, a band's spelling that sounds like corn, and a drip that sounds like a leek.