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NYT Connections Hints for October 10

Blue completes HOUSE. Purple is fish you can also do. This October 10, 2026 page is an original practice board in the Connections format, with four hints and a grid you can play.

Need the habit, not this date? The connections hint guide explains what each color is allowed to say. The live day is on hints today.

Hints

  1. Yellow hint

    Four things you can eat from a tree or vine.

  2. Green hint

    Each one is a bloom.

  3. Blue hint

    The same building word follows all four.

  4. Purple hint

    Each word is an animal in the water and something you can do.

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October 10 is a market stall of fruit and flowers until the house words show up. Green, white, opera, and tree are not colors-plus-a-building. They are greenhouse, White House, opera house, and treehouse. Purple looks like a random catch. Sole, perch, skate, and flounder are fish, and each word is also a verb: you can sole a shoe, perch, skate, or flounder. Rose stays with the flowers.

  1. Fruit

    APPLE, MANGO, PEACH, PLUM

    Apple, mango, peach, and plum are fruit.

  2. Flowers

    ROSE, TULIP, DAISY, LILAC

    Rose, tulip, daisy, and lilac are flowers.

  3. Words before HOUSE

    GREEN, WHITE, OPERA, TREE

    Greenhouse, White House, opera house, and treehouse.

  4. Fish that are also verbs

    SOLE, PERCH, SKATE, FLOUNDER

    Sole, perch, skate, and flounder are fish and verbs.