Puzzle fans looking to sort out Tuesday’s New York Times Connections grid have a mix of everyday objects, city landmarks and clever visual wordplay to untangle in puzzle #1150. Below are spoiler-free hints for anyone still working through today’s board, followed by the full confirmed solution for those ready to check their answers.

What is NYT Connections?

Connections is a daily word-association puzzle published by The New York Times, in which players are presented with a 4-by-4 grid of 16 seemingly unrelated words and asked to sort them into four hidden groups of four. Each group shares a common theme, ranging from straightforward categories to trickier wordplay-based connections. The puzzle, created in 2023 and overseen by the Times’ crossword editor, Wyna Liu, has become one of the paper’s most popular daily games alongside Wordle, Strands and the Mini Crossword.

Categories are typically color-coded by difficulty, running from the most straightforward grouping to the most conceptually challenging, with the trickiest category often relying on wordplay, double meanings or unexpected associations between words that appear to have nothing in common at first glance. Part of the puzzle’s appeal, and its difficulty, comes from the Times’ deliberate use of overlapping words designed to mislead players into grouping items incorrectly before the true categories become clear.

Hints for today’s puzzle

For players who want a nudge before jumping straight to the answers, here are some spoiler-light clues for each of today’s four categories:

• One category involves items that are long and cylindrical in shape.
• Another focuses on sights closely associated with New York City.
• A third groups together objects and instruments that share a common mechanical feature: pedals.
• The final and trickiest category ties together things that form a distinctive V shape.

If those hints aren’t quite enough, a few additional pointers: think of something you might chew on the sidewalk, a familiar city bird, an instrument played with the feet as well as the hands, and a hand gesture recognizable around the world.

Today’s Connections answers

For those ready to see the full solution, here is how puzzle #1150 breaks down for Tuesday, August 4, 2026:

Long Cylindrical Things: Cigarette, Foam Roller, Pool Noodle, Pretzel Rod

Iconic NYC Sights: Bodega, Pigeon, Subway Station, Taxi Cab

Things With Pedals: Piano, Sewing Machine, Swan Boat, Unicycle

V-Shaped Things: Angle Bracket, Chevron, Goose Formation, Peace Sign

The puzzle’s most challenging group is likely to be the V-Shaped Things category, which requires players to move beyond literal object categories and instead recognize a shared visual shape across items as varied as a hand gesture, a punctuation mark, a flying formation of geese and a chevron pattern. That kind of abstract, shape-based grouping is a hallmark of Connections’ hardest category on any given day, often tripping up players who initially try to sort those words by what they are rather than what they resemble.

The Things With Pedals category also carries a bit of a twist, linking together items that don’t obviously belong in the same group at first glance. A piano and a sewing machine share pedals used for different mechanical purposes, while a swan boat, the pedal-powered paddle boats found on lakes in parks, and a unicycle round out a category built around a shared physical feature rather than a shared purpose or setting.

Strategy for solving Connections

Players tackling Connections are often advised to start with the category they feel most confident about, typically the most literal or straightforward grouping, before moving on to trickier associations. Because the puzzle intentionally seeds decoy words designed to fit multiple categories, jumping to conclusions on category groupings can be costly, since an incorrect guess can quickly use up the limited number of mistakes allowed before the puzzle is considered unsolved for the day.

A common approach involves first identifying words that only seem to fit one obvious category, then working outward from there, saving the most ambiguous or abstract-seeming words for last. In today’s puzzle, several items could plausibly overlap between categories at first glance, for instance, a pretzel rod might initially seem more closely tied to a food-based group rather than a shape-based one, while a taxi cab could be mistaken for fitting a category built around modes of transportation rather than New York City sights specifically.

A companion puzzle: Connections Sports Edition

Alongside the main Connections puzzle, the Times also publishes a separate Connections: Sports Edition, developed in partnership with The Athletic, which challenges players to apply knowledge of baseball, basketball, football and hockey to a similarly structured grid. Tuesday’s sports edition, puzzle #680, tested players on categories built around team names, franchise history and sports terminology, offering a parallel challenge for fans of both word games and sports trivia.

Why Connections has become a daily habit

Since its debut, Connections has grown into one of the Times’ most widely played daily puzzles, prized for the way it rewards lateral thinking over rote vocabulary knowledge. Unlike Wordle, which tests spelling and letter placement, Connections leans on pattern recognition and cultural familiarity, often requiring players to reconsider their first instinct about a word’s meaning once a puzzle’s true structure starts to emerge.

The puzzle resets daily at midnight local time, with a new 16-word grid and four categories waiting for players each morning. For those who missed Tuesday’s puzzle or want to track their progress over time, the Times maintains an archive of past Connections puzzles, allowing solvers to catch up on previous days’ boards or revisit puzzles they weren’t able to finish.

With today’s #1150 solved, players can look ahead to Wednesday’s edition, #1151, which will bring an entirely new set of 16 words and four fresh categories to untangle.

Shares of Thangamayil Jewellery dipped another 5% to a lower circuit of Rs 4,723 on the BSE on Tuesday even as the company announced sales of Rs 344 crore in just the first three days of August amid Aadi Perukku, an auspicious festival in Tamil Nadu. With Tuesday’s decline, the stock is down 35% in six sessions.

In a regulatory filing on Monday, the jewellery retailer said it recorded sales revenue of Rs 344.16 crore during the August 1 to August 3, 2026 period, compared with Rs 156.75 crore in the corresponding period last year. This translates into a 119.55% year on year growth in sales over the three day period.

Thangamayil share selloff explained

Much of the negative sentiment comes from weak guidance following the first quarter release last month. Thangamayil Jewellery said it saw no visible improvement in sales during the first 28 days of the second quarter of FY27. The company attributed this to continued uncertainty around the war and customer expectations of a moderate decline in international gold prices, which led to further postponement of purchases.

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The company expects this deferred demand to return once the war and gold price situation improves. It remains hopeful of seeing a recovery in demand in the second half of FY27.

Thangamayil Jewellery reported same-store sales (SSS) growth of 44.4% for the three months ended June 30, 2026, compared with 72.3% growth on a quarter-on-quarter basis. The company said gold volumes were relatively lower during the quarter despite international gold prices being more benign compared with the previous quarter, when prices had remained elevated.
According to the company, the slowdown was primarily due to a steep increase in import duty from 6% to 15% from May 13, 2026, along with significant depreciation in the Indian rupee. These factors led customers to postpone purchases in anticipation of a future decline in gold prices in U.S. dollar terms.The uncertainty caused by the West Asia war also weighed on demand. The company said the resulting slowdown in gold purchases by expatriates, driven by lower inward remittances in the areas where it operates, further contributed to the sluggish offtake on a quarter-on-quarter basis.

Also Read | Q1 surprise sends jewellery stocks shining 40% in a month. Will the surge last in next quarters?

Thangamyil Q1 results

The retailer reported a net profit of Rs 85 crore for the first quarter of FY27, marking an 86% growth from Rs 45.7 crore posted in the same period last year.

The company’s revenue from operations jumped 71.2% in the June quarter to Rs 2,666.4 crore from Rs 1,558 crore posted in the corresponding quarter of the previous financial year.

Further, EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization) rose 66.2% to Rs 144.6 crore from Rs 87 crore. Margins for the quarter under review stood at 5.4%, compared with 5.6% in the corresponding period last year.

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LONDON — Prince William has once again been named Britain’s most popular royal, edging out his wife, Catherine, Princess of Wales, in the latest YouGov favourability tracker, extending a pattern that has now held for more than a year.

The survey, conducted among 2,063 adults in Great Britain on July 21-22, found that 76% of respondents held a positive view of the Prince of Wales, compared with 74% for Catherine. The two-point gap, while narrow, marks the continuation of a shift that began in August 2025, when William first overtook his wife in the rankings after she had spent years as the public’s clear favorite. Catherine last held the top spot in February 2025.

A narrow but consistent gap

Despite trailing her husband in overall favorability, Catherine continues to hold an edge in a different measure: how few people view her unfavorably. Only 13% of respondents expressed a negative opinion of the princess, compared with 16% who viewed William unfavorably, suggesting that while slightly fewer Britons rate her as a clear favorite, she also draws less outright criticism than her husband.

That dynamic has defined the Waleses’ standing in recent YouGov trackers, with both figures consistently drawing support from roughly three-quarters of the British public, a level that has remained largely unchanged over the past several years even as the broader royal family has weathered periods of turbulence.

Where the rest of the family stands

Princess Anne, long regarded as one of the most consistently well-regarded working royals, came in third with a 70% favorability rating, according to the July tracker. King Charles III followed in fourth place, with 62% of respondents holding a positive view of the monarch, against 31% who viewed him unfavorably. YouGov noted that the king’s rating has remained relatively steady, with 59% to 63% of Britons expressing a favorable opinion of him over the past two years.

Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, rounded out the upper tier of the rankings, with 53% and 51% favorability respectively. Queen Camilla registered a more mixed standing, with 43% of respondents viewing her positively and 44% holding a negative opinion, according to the tracker.

Harry and Meghan remain unpopular, though Harry’s numbers tick up

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, continue to rank among the least popular working or formerly working members of the royal family, though the polling suggests a modest shift in sentiment toward Harry over the past year. According to YouGov, 33% of Britons now hold a favorable view of Harry, up six points since May 2025, while the share holding a negative opinion of him has fallen five points over the same period to 58%.

Meghan’s standing has shown less movement. Just 22% of respondents said they viewed the Duchess of Sussex positively, compared with 65% who held an unfavorable opinion of her, figures that have remained largely consistent across recent waves of YouGov’s tracker.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who lost his Prince and Duke of York titles amid ongoing scandal, remains the most unpopular member of the extended royal family by a wide margin, with public backing in the low single digits in recent surveys. The fallout from his case has also weighed on his daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, both of whom now register more unfavorable than favorable opinions among the public for the first time in recent tracking.

A stable picture for the monarchy overall

Beyond individual rankings, YouGov’s broader tracking shows that support for the monarchy as an institution has remained fairly steady throughout Charles’ reign, with close to two-thirds of Britons continuing to favor keeping the royal family, a figure that has shown little movement despite the various controversies that have touched different branches of the family in recent years.

The consistency in William and Catherine’s numbers stands in contrast to the more volatile ratings tracked for other senior royals. Charles’ favorability, while currently at the higher end of its range, has swung more noticeably over the course of his reign than that of his son and daughter-in-law, reflecting the way public sentiment toward the monarch has shifted alongside major moments such as his cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment.

A generational divide

YouGov’s polling has also highlighted a consistent generational split in attitudes toward Harry and Meghan, with younger Britons expressing significantly more favorable views of the couple than older generations. In earlier waves of the tracker, YouGov found that only 19% of Britons over 65 held a positive view of Harry, compared with 35% of those aged 18 to 24, while just 10% of the oldest respondents viewed Meghan favorably against 31% of the youngest age group.

No similarly pronounced generational divide has emerged in attitudes toward William and Catherine, whose favorability has remained comparatively high and stable across most age brackets, according to YouGov’s tracking data.

What the numbers suggest going forward

The latest results reinforce a picture that has held steady since William first passed his wife in the rankings nearly a year ago: the Prince and Princess of Wales remain, by a wide margin, the most consistently popular working members of the royal family, even as sentiment toward other figures — including the king, Harry and Meghan — continues to shift with each new wave of polling.

YouGov conducts its royal favourability tracker on a regular basis, typically surveying more than 2,000 adults in Great Britain, and the rankings have become a closely watched barometer of public sentiment toward individual royals as the family navigates a period that has included Charles’ health treatment, William and Catherine’s expanded public roles, and the continued fallout from Harry and Meghan’s departure from official royal duties in 2020.

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Shares of Dabur India fell nearly 3% on Tuesday after the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) barred the FMCG major from selling certain food products carrying misleading “100%” claims.

In a post on X, the food regulator said it had issued a prohibition order after finding that products such as honey, cow ghee and edible oils were being marketed on the company’s website with claims including “100% Natural”, “100% Pure”, “100% Purity Guaranteed”, “100% Organic” and “100% Tender Coconut Water”.

According to FSSAI, these claims violate the Food Safety and Standards (Advertising and Claims) Regulations, 2018, as they are ambiguous, unverifiable and likely to mislead consumers.

The regulator also found that Dabur Himalayan Organic Apple Cider Vinegar and Dabur Organic Honey displayed the Jaivik Bharat logo without a valid FSSAI organic endorsement.

In addition, Dabur’s Homemade Coconut Milk was marketed with the claim “100% Purity”, which is not permitted for compound foods. FSSAI said that despite an earlier notice directing the company to discontinue misleading “100%” claims, it failed to take satisfactory corrective action.
The regulator has directed Dabur India to immediately stop selling the products identified in the notice, along with any other food products carrying misleading “100%” claims. The company has also been asked to submit an Action Taken Report (ATR) within 15 days.Also read | FSSAI prohibits Dabur from selling food products with ‘100%’ claims

Dabur India share price

Following the prohibition order, Dabur India shares fell nearly 3% to Rs 414.35 apiece on the NSE. The stock has declined nearly 2% over the past week and more than 6% in the last month. It is down about 17% so far in 2026.

Over the longer term, Dabur India shares have delivered negative returns of 21% over the past year, 27% over three years and 29% over five years. The company currently commands a market capitalisation of more than Rs 73,700 crore.

The stock had already been under pressure after the FMCG major reported June-quarter earnings that were broadly in line with Street estimates. Last Wednesday, the company reported a 15% year-on-year (YoY) rise in consolidated net profit to Rs 591 crore for the April-June quarter of FY27, marking its third consecutive quarter of double-digit profit growth, driven by price hikes, cost control and broad-based growth across its FMCG portfolio.

Consolidated revenue rose 11% YoY to Rs 3,761 crore, while the India FMCG business grew 9.5%, supported by underlying volume growth of 5%. Operating profit also increased 11% during the quarter.

Also read | What brokerages said after Dabur’s Q1 earnings?

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