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NYT Connections Hints for October 26

Blue takes TAG. Purple is spelled with a double letter. This October 26, 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 foods from a morning menu.

  2. Green hint

    Four things you wear on your feet.

  3. Blue hint

    The same label word follows all four.

  4. Purple hint

    Each spelling repeats one letter back to back.

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October 26 tempts a pet sort. Mule is a shoe and an animal, kitten has a double letter, and neither fact puts them in the same group. Breakfast is bagel, toast, oatmeal, and granola. The shoes are slide, clog, pump, and wedge. Price, name, ear, and hang take TAG. Book, balloon, coffee, and kitten each contain a double letter. Coffee smells like breakfast and is not in that group.

  1. Breakfast foods

    BAGEL, TOAST, OATMEAL, GRANOLA

    Bagel, toast, oatmeal, and granola are breakfast foods.

  2. Footwear

    SLIDE, CLOG, PUMP, WEDGE

    Slide, clog, pump, and wedge are footwear.

  3. Words before TAG

    PRICE, NAME, EAR, HANG

    Price tag, name tag, ear tag, and hang tag.

  4. Contain a double letter

    BOOK, BALLOON, COFFEE, KITTEN

    Book, balloon, coffee, and kitten each contain a double letter.