Connections #1,248 hints and answers for Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Connections #1,248 saves its neatest trick for the purple group again: ABRACADABRA, BEEKEEPER, INVISIBILITY and PROTOZOOLOGY look like a magic word, a job, a superpower and a branch of science, until you count the vowels inside each one and find five copies of a single letter hiding in every word on the row. The rest of the board is fair game - four names for a noisy fuss, four tools from the English classroom, and four jobs from a century ago. 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, tier by tier, from yellow through to purple, easiest first, hardest last, purple waiting at the end.
Group 1 - Yellow
Hint: four names for a loud commotion: the uproar that makes headlines, the grand fuss raised over almost nothing, the racket of a crowd, and the small storm of confusion whose own name sounds like a scuffle.
HUBBUB
HUBBUB
Group 2 - Green
Hint: four tools from the English classroom: the wild exaggeration, the figure that swaps a thing for a close cousin, the word that sounds like what it means, and the two-word contradiction.
LITERARY DEVICES
LITERARY DEVICES
Group 3 - Blue
Hint: four jobs from a century ago: the person who prepared and sold medicines, the seller of hats and sewing goods, the professional copyist, and the builder of wagons.
OLD-TIMEY OCCUPATIONS
OLD-TIMEY OCCUPATIONS
Group 4 - Purple
Hint: count the vowels inside each one: a magician's favorite word, a keeper of hives, the power of being unseen, and the study of single-celled animals each hide five copies of one vowel.