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Connections September 27, 2026: Hints & Answers (#1306)

edited by Wyna Liu.

Recap

The groups were well-distributed, with sculpture media, restaurant seating, telecom terms, and Chinese dynasty endings.

The sixteen tiles

The sixteen tiles as dealt. Reveal a group below to tint and caption its tiles here.

WU-TANGCARRIERHOMINGBOOTHSTOOLMARBLEBBQINGOPERATORCLAYBANQUETTENETWORKCHAIRLOHANBRONZEPROVIDERPLASTER

Connections hints, one rung at a time

Six rungs, softest first. The recap above already named the groups, so this ladder is here for anyone replaying the board fresh rather than as a spoiler shield.

  1. Four one-line nudges, one per group

    The softest hint there is.

    Yellow
    Art materials
    Green
    Dining spots
    Blue
    Phone services
    Purple
    Asian history
  2. What linked each group, described

    Still no titles and no tiles named.

    Yellow group

    These materials are often used to create art

    Green group

    You can sit here to eat

    Blue group

    Companies that provide phone services to customers

    Purple group

    These phrases end with names of Chinese dynasties

  3. Board facts

    Counted off the sixteen printed tiles.

    Sixteen tiles, four groups of four, ordered yellow → green → blue → purple from most to least obvious. Every tile was a single word.

    Tiles
    16 across 4 groups
    Longest tile
    9 characters
    Shortest tile
    4 characters
    Multi-word tiles
    0
    Back to the sixteen tiles
  4. The trap on this board

    Which tiles pulled in two directions.

    Some words could fit into more than one category, be careful with tiles like LOHAN and STOOL.

  5. The four category titles

    Half the answer.

    Yellow
    SCULPTURE MEDIA
    Green
    RESTAURANT SEATING OPTIONS
    Blue
    TELECOM
    Purple
    ENDING IN CHINESE DYNASTIES
  6. One tile from each group

    The anchor most people misplaced, matched to its title.

    Yellow — SCULPTURE MEDIA
    PLASTER
    Green — RESTAURANT SEATING OPTIONS
    BANQUETTE
    Blue — TELECOM
    PROVIDER
    Purple — ENDING IN CHINESE DYNASTIES
    WU-TANG
    Open the full groupings

Every Connections group from that board

All four groups, folded. Opening one tints its four tiles above and captions them with the category name.

  • Yellow group · 4 tiles

    SCULPTURE MEDIA

    BRONZE, CLAY, MARBLE, PLASTER. The yellow group, 'SCULPTURE MEDIA', includes BRONZE, CLAY, MARBLE, and PLASTER.

  • Green group · 4 tiles

    RESTAURANT SEATING OPTIONS

    BANQUETTE, BOOTH, CHAIR, STOOL. The green group, 'RESTAURANT SEATING OPTIONS', includes BANQUETTE, BOOTH, CHAIR, and STOOL.

  • Blue group · 4 tiles

    TELECOM

    CARRIER, NETWORK, OPERATOR, PROVIDER. The blue group, 'TELECOM', includes CARRIER, NETWORK, OPERATOR, and PROVIDER.

  • Purple group · 4 tiles

    ENDING IN CHINESE DYNASTIES

    BBQING, HOMING, LOHAN, WU-TANG. The purple group, 'ENDING IN CHINESE DYNASTIES', includes BBQING, HOMING, LOHAN, and WU-TANG.

This board by the numbers

Puzzle
(#1306) · Sunday, September 27, 2026
Tiles
16 in a 4 × 4 grid
Groups
4, yellow to purple
Multi-word tiles
0
Longest tile
BANQUETTE
Mistakes allowed
4 before the board locked

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