Tuesday's NYT Connections puzzle is testing players with a batch of tricky overlaps between fruit, footwear and words hiding smaller words inside them, according to puzzle guides tracking today's grid. Here's a breakdown of the hints, categories and full solution for puzzle number 1,143.

How Connections Works

Connections is a web-based daily puzzle created by The New York Times in 2023, with the daily puzzles written by the paper's crossword editor, Wyna Liu. The game presents players with an interactive grid of 16 words, and the objective is to correctly link four words under a shared idea, forming four separate groups in total.

Players select four words at a time and press submit to check their guess, with the option to unselect words by clicking on them again, and a shuffle button available to help spot new patterns by rearranging the grid. Players are allowed up to four mistakes before the puzzle ends, and the four color-coded groups generally progress in difficulty, from simple, broad ideas to more specific terminology and wordplay.

The 16 words in Tuesday's puzzle, listed alphabetically so as not to give away the groupings, are: Annapolis, Bobsled, Camper, Captain, Clarks, Converse, Crocs, Direct, Empire, Everest, Fuji, Gala, Head, Honeycrisp, Lead and Ottoman.

Hints for Each Category

For players hoping to solve the puzzle with a nudge rather than the full........

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