The New York Times published its daily Connections puzzle number 1147 on August 1, 2026.
Players must group sixteen words into four distinct categories based on shared characteristics and wordplay.
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The puzzle includes categories spanning home goods, film history, mechanical trades, and culinary vocabulary.
Players have four attempts to correctly sort the words into four sets of four tiles.
Today's Categories and Answers
The yellow category represents bedding and contains the terms COMFORTER, SHAM, SHEET, and THROW. SHAM is a decorative pillowcase term, while THROW refers to a smaller decorative blanket.
The green group focuses on pop culture, categorizing Oscar-Winning Actors Since 2010. The correct words include BALE, JORDAN, PHOENIX, and WALTZ, referencing Christian Bale, Michael B.
Jordan, Joaquin Phoenix, and Christoph Waltz.
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For the blue category, the puzzle tests knowledge of mechanical processes with the theme Perform Some Hole Machining Operations.
The four matching action verbs are BORE, COUNTERSINK, DRILL, and REAM.
Countersink describes cutting a conical hole into a material to allow flat-head fasteners to sit flush with the surface.
The purple group presents the day's trickiest wordplay challenge around terms Starting With Bread Shapes.
The solution set features BOULEVARD, BUNDLE, LOAFER, and ROLLS-ROYCE, which conceal the bread forms boule, bun, loaf, and roll at the beginning of each word.
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The daily puzzle follows the previous day's edition on July 31, which featured categories covering construction terms, Super Mario figures, fruit names with added letters, and words starting with merriments.
