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 Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, November 9 (game #882).
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 #883) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- SINE
- CLEAR
- PRO
- SQUARE
- SAW
- AB
- TRIANGLE
- BELL
- CAME
- DRUM
- PAY
- SUB
- SETTLE
- RATTLE
- CONQUERED
NYT Connections today (game #883) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Musical tools that are struck or shaken
- GREEN: Paid in full
- BLUE: Legendary pronouncement by a Roman emperor
- PURPLE: Ancient grammar
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 #883) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS
- GREEN: SATISFY, AS DEBTS
- BLUE: WORDS IN A FAMOUS QUOTE BY CAESAR
- PURPLE: LATIN PREPOSITIONS
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #883) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #883, are…
- YELLOW: PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS BELL, DRUM, RATTLE, TRIANGLE
- GREEN: SATISFY, AS DEBTS CLEAR, PAY, SETTLE, SQUARE
- BLUE: WORDS IN A FAMOUS QUOTE BY CAESAR CAME, CONQUERED, I, SAW
- PURPLE: LATIN PREPOSITIONS AB, PRO, SINE, SUB
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 2 mistakes
A little bit of knowledge can get you a long way in Connections, but sometimes it can also get you absolutely nowhere.
I knew that SINE had something to do with angles, so I had a crack at building a group with TRIANGLE – and because I thought they sounded vaguely mathematical – PRO and AB.
After getting “one away” twice, I decided to refocus and after spotting PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS realized I was barking up completely the wrong tree.
WORDS IN A FAMOUS QUOTE BY CAESAR had seemed too obvious at the start of the game, but made the most sense with eight tiles left before the reveal of the purple group revealed that my “little bit of knowledge” of trigonometry turned out to be zero knowledge of LATIN PREPOSITIONS.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Sunday, November 9, game #882)
- YELLOW: PERSONAL GROOMING ITEMS BRUSH, MIRROR, NAIL FILE, TWEEZERS
- GREEN: PACKED COMPACT, DENSE, THICK, TIGHT
- BLUE: PONDER DELIBERATE, MUSE, NOODLE, REFLECT
- PURPLE: STARTING WITH BIRD HOMOPHONES CRANIUM, CRONUT, LUNAR, PUFNSTUF
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.
