Today's puzzle answers: Tuesday, August 11, 2026

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NYT Connections #1242

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Yellow (easiest) — the connection is “Doomed”. The words: DONE, SUNK, THROUGH, TOAST.
Green (easy) — the connection is “Basic cable channels”. The words: BET, BRAVO, HISTORY, USA.
Blue (tricky) — the connection is “Words in an auctioneer's chant”. The words: GOING, ONCE, SOLD, TWICE.
Purple (trickiest, usually wordplay) — the connection is “Homophones of facial features”. The words: AYE, HARE, KNOWS, TUNG.

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The answer is FENCE.
What it means — noun: A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter.

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★ Pangram, explained ▸

ELEMENTALLY
MENTALLY — adverb: In a mental manner; an idea thought out in one's mind, as opposed to an idea spoken orally.

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AMEN, ANAL, ANALLY, ANNAL, ANNEAL, ANTE, ANTENATAL, ANTENNA, ANTENNAE, EATEN, ELAN, ELEMENT, ELEMENTAL, ELEMENTALLY, EMANATE, ENAMEL, ENEMA, ENEMY, ENTENTE, LAMENT, LANE, LANTANA, LATEN, LATENT, LATENTLY, LAYMAN, LAYMEN, LEAN, LEANLY, LEANT, LENT, MANATEE, MANE, MANLY, MANNA, MANTA, MANTEL, MANTLE, MANY, MEAN, MEANLY, MEANT, MEANY, MENTAL, MENTALLY, MENTEE, MYNA, NAAN, NAME, NAMELY, NANA, NANNY, NATAL, NATANT, NATTY, NEAT, NEATEN, NEATLY, NENE, NETTLE, NETTY, TALENT, TEEN, TEENY, TENANT, TENEMENT, TENET, TENT, YENTA, YENTE

★ Easy solution ▸

Domino [1|0] goes on (r2,c3) and (r2,c4)
Domino [1|1] goes on (r3,c2) and (r3,c3)
Domino [1|2] goes on (r2,c2) and (r2,c1)
Domino [1|5] goes on (r1,c3) and (r1,c4)
Domino [1|6] goes on (r1,c2) and (r1,c1)

★ Medium solution ▸

Domino [0|5] goes on (r6,c3) and (r5,c3)
Domino [4|6] goes on (r7,c1) and (r8,c1)
Domino [6|6] goes on (r1,c3) and (r2,c3)
Domino [3|2] goes on (r1,c1) and (r2,c1)
Domino [4|4] goes on (r5,c1) and (r6,c1)
Domino [0|0] goes on (r3,c1) and (r4,c1)
Domino [6|5] goes on (r8,c3) and (r7,c3)
Domino [1|0] goes on (r3,c3) and (r4,c3)

★ Hard solution ▸

Domino [6|6] goes on (r3,c5) and (r4,c5)
Domino [1|0] goes on (r7,c1) and (r6,c1)
Domino [3|5] goes on (r4,c4) and (r5,c4)
Domino [0|4] goes on (r5,c2) and (r6,c2)
Domino [6|3] goes on (r7,c5) and (r7,c4)
Domino [2|0] goes on (r3,c2) and (r3,c1)
Domino [1|4] goes on (r1,c1) and (r2,c1)
Domino [6|0] goes on (r2,c4) and (r1,c4)
Domino [3|3] goes on (r3,c3) and (r3,c4)
Domino [0|0] goes on (r4,c1) and (r5,c1)
Domino [5|5] goes on (r2,c2) and (r2,c3)
Domino [2|3] goes on (r1,c2) and (r1,c3)
Domino [5|0] goes on (r2,c5) and (r1,c5)
Domino [2|6] goes on (r7,c3) and (r7,c2)
Domino [0|3] goes on (r5,c5) and (r6,c5)

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