Today's Connections Answers & Hints For February 26, 2024 (Puzzle #259)

Monday February 26th has a brand new for fans of the game to solve and today's word groupings aren't as bad as they've been in previous days. The categories aren't too obscure in today's game and there aren't too many words that could be confused with other sections.

If you enjoy daily puzzles like and love a good challenge, then is a great -copycat that would fit the bill nicely. has you solve four different puzzles at the same time by sharing the hints with each answer attempt. It requires a good amount of brain power and some delicate balancing of guesses to solve.

Before fully spoiling today's answers we wanted to provide a few hints in the form of the category topics.

Basic Tastes

Stand Up To, As A Challenge

Ilk

Art Movements, With -ism

Basic Tastes

Bitter

Salty

Sour

Sweet

This was by far the quickest category-solve we've ever had with. Usually, only two or three words stick out and the others slowly fall into place, but all four stood out like a sore thumb and scored us an easy yellow win.

Stand Up To, As A Challenge

Brave

Confront

Face

Meet

Another quick win in the green category as CONFRONT and FACE stood out to us. BRAVE quickly fell into place, followed by MEET. There's nothing quite like scoring two quick categories right away.

Ilk

Kind

Type

Sort

Variety

We did end up winning today's game in order of the game's own rankings, so blue was our third score. However, we did have a bit of trouble deciphering the final two categories. TYPE and KIND were the two words that really put us into the win for this one.

Art Movements, With -ism

Expression

Manner

Romantic

Surreal

Today's purple was our «that's all that's left» category, but that's perfectly fine. One of the best aspects of the game is that you don't need to solve each section, you just need three out of four to score a win.