NYT Connections game 1232: hints and answers

Sunday's puzzle groups pasta shapes, fictional characters named Tom, things you can snap, and words meaning to steal.

Oct 24, 2026

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NYT Connections game 1232: hints and answers

Sunday's puzzle groups pasta shapes, fictional characters named Tom, things you can snap, and words meaning to steal.

In brief

Sunday's puzzle groups pasta shapes, fictional characters named Tom, things you can snap, and words meaning to steal. NYT Connections game 1232 for Sunday, October twenty-fifth groups four categories: pasta shapes, fictional Toms, things that can be snapped, and synonyms for steal. Originally reported by TechRadar.

Today's sixteen words

NYT Connections hints for game 1232 on a purple background

NYT Connections game 1232 for Sunday, October twenty-fifth gives you sixteen words to sort into four groups of four.

Yellow group: steal

NYT Connections answers for game 1232 on a purple background

The yellow group, the easiest, groups four synonyms for steal. The answers are boost, palm, pocket, and swipe.

Green group: pasta shapes

The green group groups four pasta shapes. The answers are bow tie, elbow, shell, and wagon wheel.

Blue group: fictional Toms

The blue group groups four fictional characters named Tom. The answers are ripley, sawyer, swift, and thumb.

Purple group: things snapped

Purple group: things snapped

The purple group, the hardest, groups four things that can be snapped. The answers are fingers, football, glow stick, and rubber band.

The puzzle's trickiest parts

The green and purple groups proved hardest. Elbow as pasta confused many, and the football reference to quarterback snaps stumped others.

“the green and purple groups completely passed me by today and I really struggled with the last eight tiles”

How Connections works

NYT Connections challenges you to find four groups of four items sharing something in common. Green is easy, yellow harder, blue tough, purple hardest. You get four mistakes.

The headline

NYT Connections game 1232 for Sunday, October twenty-fifth groups four categories: pasta shapes, fictional Toms, things that can be snapped, and synonyms for steal.

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