Fans of The New York Times' popular word-grouping game Connections can find the full breakdown of Sunday's puzzle here, including hints, category themes and the complete answer key for Connections #1190, published Sept. 13, 2026.

Connections challenges players to sort 16 seemingly unrelated words into four groups of four, with each group sharing a hidden connection. The puzzle presents categories in ascending order of difficulty, color-coded yellow, green, blue and purple, with yellow typically the most straightforward and purple reserved for the trickiest wordplay or most obscure connections.

Today's four categories

Sunday's puzzle grouped its 16 words into the following categories: Lacking in Firmness, U.S. Presidents, Words That Sound Like Two Letters, and Ending in Elevated Landforms.

The yellow group, Lacking in Firmness, consisted of DROOPY, FLACCID, SAGGING and SLACK, four words describing something limp or without rigidity.

The green group, U.S. Presidents, included CLEVELAND, GARFIELD, GRANT and MADISON, a straightforward category built around the surnames of former American commanders in chief.

The blue group, Words That Sound Like Two Letters, contained EMPTY, EXCESS, KEWPIE and ODIE. Each word, when spoken aloud, phonetically resembles a two-letter combination: EMPTY sounds like "MT," EXCESS sounds like "XS," KEWPIE sounds like "QP," and ODIE sounds like "OD."

The purple group, the day's most challenging category, was Ending in........

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