Connections Hints for October 18, 2026: Clues and Answers

Today's Connections has four hidden groups of four. Start with a gentle nudge and only open more if you need it.

ANGELBUTTERHAZELDEODORANTCOCODYNAMITEMISTERFOGERTYCHESTINCENSEVAPORETTOBUREAUOBSESSIONTRUNKOPIUMWARDROBE

Hint 1: One word from each group

Each of these words belongs to a different group.

Hint 2: Yellow (easiest) group theme

The yellow group is Places To Store Clothes.

Hint 3: Green group theme

The green group is Things That Come In Sticks.

Hint 4: Blue group theme

The blue group is Famous Perfumes.

Hint 5: Purple (hardest) group theme

The purple group is Starting With Things That Cloud The Air.

Show all four answers

Places To Store Clothes

BUREAU, CHEST, TRUNK, WARDROBE

Things That Come In Sticks

BUTTER, DEODORANT, DYNAMITE, INCENSE

Famous Perfumes

ANGEL, COCO, OBSESSION, OPIUM

Starting With Things That Cloud The Air

FOGERTY, HAZEL, MISTER, VAPORETTO

About this puzzle

More about today's puzzle. Everything in this section can include the answer.

Why each word belongs in its group, with a short dictionary meaning where one exists.

Yellow (easiest): Places To Store Clothes

BUREAU: An administrative unit of government; office.
CHEST: (anatomy) The portion of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the homologous area in s...
TRUNK: A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, o...
WARDROBE: (figuratively) A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.

Green: Things That Come In Sticks

BUTTER: A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
DEODORANT: An odor-controlling substance applied to the underarm to counteract odor from perspiration.
DYNAMITE: A class of explosives made from nitroglycerine in an absorbent medium such as kieselguhr, used in mining and blasting.
INCENSE: Biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt, often used in religious rites or for aesthetic reasons.

Blue: Famous Perfumes

ANGEL: An incorporeal and holy or semidivine messenger from a deity or other divine entity, traditionally depicted as a yout...
COCO: Coconut, the fruit of the coconut palm.
OBSESSION: An idea that engenders a compulsive or irrational preoccupation, or the preoccupation thereby engendered.
OPIUM: (uncountable) A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy...

Purple (hardest): Starting With Things That Cloud The Air

FOGERTY: A surname from Irish.
HAZEL: (countable) A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
MISTER: A man.
VAPORETTO: A public water bus, originally steam-powered, found especially in Venice.