Connections #873 Answers
Friday, October 31, 2025
Here are the answers to NYT Connections #873 for Friday, October 31, 2025. The 16 words split into four groups by colour — yellow is easiest, purple the trickiest. The group themes are listed first as hints, then every group is revealed below. Looking for the latest puzzle? See today's Connections.
Hints — the four group themes
- Yellow (easiest): goldilocks
- Green: cinderella
- Blue: popeye
- Purple (hardest): ms. pac-man
Answers
GOLDILOCKS
CINDERELLA
POPEYE
MS. PAC-MAN
Previous Connections answers
- #872 — terms of endearment, fiction genres, collective nouns for birds, people whose first names are u.s. cities
- #871 — fortitude, channel, words starting with the “say” sound, things featuring letters a through z
- #870 — banality, in the know, remote control buttons, one-named singer plus starting letter
- #869 — emanate, in the slightest, cocktail garnishes, ___ four
- #868 — kinds of instruments, words in a famous muhammad ali quote, kinds of contests, words with diminutive suffixes
- #867 — swindle, digital watch features, confer, best actor-winning biopics
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