A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Thursday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, November 27 (game #900).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.
What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc’s Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (game #901) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- BEST
- STRING
- JUST
- INTONATION
- STRESS
- FAIR
- FRET
- BEAT
- RHYTHM
- TAKE
- RIGHT
- PEG
- PROPER
- PICKUP
- LOUDNESS
- WORST
NYT Connections today (game #901) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Appropriate
- GREEN: Winning words
- BLUE: Elements of a stringed instrument
- PURPLE: Linguistic sounds
Need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections today (game #901) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: FITTING
- GREEN: ACHIEVE VICTORY OVER
- BLUE: PARTS OF AN ELECTRIC GUITAR
- PURPLE: PHONETIC ELEMENTS OF SPEECH
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #901) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #901, are…
- YELLOW: FITTING FAIR, JUST, PROPER, RIGHT
- GREEN: ACHIEVE VICTORY OVER BEAT, BEST, TAKE, WORST
- BLUE: PARTS OF AN ELECTRIC GUITAR FRET, PEG, PICKUP, STRING
- PURPLE: PHONETIC ELEMENTS OF SPEECH INTONATION, LOUDNESS, RHYTHM, STRESS
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 mistake
After getting PARTS OF AN ELECTRIC GUITAR, I incorrectly thought that there was another musical group that had something to do with drumming – adding BEAT to INTONATION, LOUDNESS, RHYTHM.
That guess was wrong, but after getting a lucky “one way” from my second guess I swapped BEAT for STRESS. I was uncertain what the connection was until they revealed themselves, but still pleased to have got the purple group so early regardless of how scrappy a win it was.
With just eight tiles left I saw FITTING. The word WORST prevented me from seeing ACHIEVE VICTORY OVER, as I’m sure it did many.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Thursday, November 27, game #900)
- YELLOW: INUNDATION AVALANCHE, OUTPOURING, TIDAL WAVE, TORRENT
- GREEN: MAIN FOLDERS IN A COMPUTER DESKTOP, DOCUMENTS, DOWNLOADS, MUSIC
- BLUE: WOODWORKING TOOLS DRILLS, FILES, ROUTERS, SAWS
- PURPLE: RHYMES FOR NEW YORK TIMES GAMES CONFECTIONS, GRANDS, HURDLE, SWELLING SEA
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final one, as you’ll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It’s a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It’s playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
