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Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is super-tricky. You’ll need to know your symbols to match them up accordingly. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.
The Times has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.
Read more: Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time
Hints for today’s Connections groups
Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.
Yellow group hint: Roll those bones.
Green group hint: Math time.
Blue group hint: A comma is one.
Purple group hint: Not uppercase.
Answers for today’s Connections groups
Yellow group: Pips on a die.
Green group: Symbols used in arithmetic.
Blue group: Punctuation marks.
Purple group: Lowercase letters.
Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words
What are today’s Connections answers?
First, here’s that grid full of symbols again.
Here’s the unsolved NYT Connections puzzle for Feb. 7, 2026, just so you can see all the symbols again.
And here are the answers, sorted into groups.
The completed NYT Connections puzzle for Feb. 7, 2026.
The yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is pips on a die. The four answers are five, four, three and two.
The green words in today’s Connections
The theme is symbols used in arithmetic. The four answers are divided by, equals, minus and plus.
The blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is punctuation marks. The four answers are colon, ellipsis, period and quotation mark.
The purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is lowercase letters. The four answers are I, L, T and X.
Toughest Connections puzzles
We’ve made a note of some of the toughest Connections puzzles so far. Maybe they’ll help you see patterns in future puzzles.
#5: Included “things you can set,” such as mood, record, table and volleyball.
#4: Included “one in a dozen,” such as egg, juror, month and rose.
#3: Included “streets on screen,” such as Elm, Fear, Jump and Sesame.
#2: Included “power ___” such as nap, plant, Ranger and trip.
#1: Included “things that can run,” such as candidate, faucet, mascara and nose.
