NYT Connections Answer Today (#1251) – 13 Nov 2026 Solution & Hints
- About Today’s Connections
- The 16 Words
- Definitions of the 16 Words
- General Hints
- Category Titles
- One Word per Category
- Complete Solution (Click to Reveal)
About Today’s Connections
Puzzle #1251 (published 13 Nov 2026). Sort 16 words into four groups of four, based on a hidden connection. Some words look like they belong together and don’t — that’s by design.
The 16 Words
Here are the 16 words, sorted alphabetically to avoid spoilers:
- Barge
- Browse
- Coverage
- Exposure
- Freeze
- Glider
- Press
- Publicity
- Scroll
- Search
- Surf
- Teaser
- Trailer
- Trust
- Water Skier
- Waves
Definitions of the 16 Words
| Barge | A flat-bottomed boat used mainly for hauling heavy loads along canals and rivers. |
| Browse | To look casually through something, flipping between pages or items without a fixed goal. |
| Coverage | The amount and depth of reporting that a story or event receives in the news. |
| Exposure | The condition of being seen, known, or made public, often through media attention. |
| Freeze | A sudden mental or physical halt, as if everything has stopped moving at once. |
| Glider | An engineless aircraft that soars on air currents after being released from a tow. |
| Press | Collectively, the journalists and outlets that gather and report the news. |
| Publicity | Attention or notice that gets drawn to a person, event, or product. |
| Scroll | To move continuously through text or images on a screen, usually with a swipe or drag. |
| Search | To look for specific information, often by typing a query into a system. |
| Surf | To move leisurely from one website, channel, or topic to another. |
| Teaser | A short preview meant to spark curiosity about something bigger still to come. |
| Trailer | A wheeled container hitched behind a vehicle to carry cargo or passengers. |
| Trust | A deep, instinctive confidence in someone’s honesty or reliability. |
| Water Skier | A person who skims across the surface of the water while being pulled by a boat. |
| Waves | Rolling, repeating patterns, like those seen in water, hair, or radio signals. |
General Hints
- Yellow: Think about all the different ways you pass time scrolling through your phone or computer each day.
- Green: This category is all about how much a story or topic gets talked about in the news cycle.
- Blue: Picture things that can’t move under their own power and need something else pulling them along.
- Purple: Fill in the blank after a two-word phrase describing a mental state or a kind of puzzle.
Category Titles
- 🟨 Yellow: Use The Internet
- 🟩 Green: Media Attention
- 🟦 Blue: Things That Are Towed
- 🟪 Purple: Brain ___
One Word per Category
- 🟨 Yellow: SEARCH
- 🟩 Green: PRESS
- 🟦 Blue: TRAILER
- 🟪 Purple: FREEZE
Complete Solution
The full breakdown is below — tap to reveal all four groups:
[CLICK TO REVEAL: Full Solution]
NYT Connections #1251 — Full Groups
- 🟨 Yellow: Use The Internet → BROWSE, SCROLL, SEARCH, SURF
- 🟩 Green: Media Attention → COVERAGE, EXPOSURE, PRESS, PUBLICITY
- 🟦 Blue: Things That Are Towed → BARGE, GLIDER, TRAILER, WATER SKIER
- 🟪 Purple: Brain ___ → FREEZE, TEASER, TRUST, WAVES
The Purple group is the one most likely to trip you up today — “Brain ___” words scatter across completely different everyday phrases, so nothing about them visually or thematically hints that they belong together until you see the pattern.
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