NYT Connections puzzle number 1155 for 9 August 2026 offers plenty for fans of films and books. Below you will find hints for each group followed by the full solutions, so you can either nudge yourself towards the answer or check your completed grid.
Hints for today’s Connections groups
The four groupings run from the easiest yellow set through to the trickier purple set. The yellow group hint is: let’s come at this another way. The green group hint points towards beloved books. The blue group hint refers to types of films. The purple group hint is: I don’t want to be here.
Put more plainly, the yellow theme is take a different approach, the green theme is classic children’s books, the blue theme is movie subgenres, and the purple theme covers things people try to get out of.
Today’s Connections answers
The yellow group, themed around taking a different approach, contains change tack, course-correct, recalibrate and shift gears.
The green group gathers classic children’s books, with the four answers being Caps for Sale, Corduroy, Goodnight Moon and Madeline.
The blue group covers movie subgenres, made up of buddy cop, neo-noir, space opera and spaghetti western.
The purple group lists things people try to get out of: bad dream, escape room, jury duty and labyrinth.
How the puzzle works
Connections asks players to sort sixteen words into four groups of four, each sharing a common link. The colour bands indicate difficulty, with yellow the most straightforward and purple typically the most obscure. Overlapping words are often placed deliberately to mislead, which is why the film and book categories in this edition reward careful reading before committing to a guess.
