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 Saturday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, November 22 (game #895).
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 #896) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- JFK
- QUEEN
- WARREN
- WALL STREET
- LAX
- LODGE
- EASY
- MIA
- DEN
- TROUPER
- NIXON
- LOOSE
- GIMME
- SLACK
- PLATOON
- BURROW
NYT Connections today (game #896) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Relaxed attitude
- GREEN: Where beasts live
- BLUE: From the maker of Any Given Sunday
- PURPLE: Parts of songs by Swedish hitmakers
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 #896) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: LENIENT
- GREEN: ANIMAL HOMES
- BLUE: OLIVER STONE MOVIES
- PURPLE: SECOND WORDS IN TITLES OF ABBA HITS
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #896) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #896, are…
- YELLOW: LENIENT EASY, LAX, LOOSE, SLACK
- GREEN: ANIMAL HOMES BURROW, DEN, LODGE, WARREN
- BLUE: OLIVER STONE MOVIES JFK, NIXON, PLATOON, WALL STREET
- PURPLE: SECOND WORDS IN TITLES OF ABBA HITS GIMME, MIA, QUEEN, TROUPER
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 mistake
Even though I knew it was a trap I couldn’t help myself and started off with a group containing JFK, LAX, MIA and DEN – thinking these abbreviation codes for US airports would make a great Connections category. Alas, I was mistaken.
Instead, each of these three-letter tiles belonged to a different group. I should have seen JFK more quickly, but here too I almost went down a dead end, thinking it was a presidential grouping before I realized there were four OLIVER STONE MOVIES.
I rescued some pride by getting the purple group a little early, finding a home for what I’d initially thought was Miami International Airport.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Saturday, November 22, game #895)
- YELLOW: LITTLE BIT DAB, DROP, SPLASH, TOUCH
- GREEN: SAILOR SALTY DOG, SKIPPER, SWAB, TAR
- BLUE: TROPICAL FRUITS/VEGETABLES BITTER MELON, CHAYOTE, DURIAN, SOURSOP
- PURPLE: ____ DEAL BIG, PLEA, RAW, SWEETHEART
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.
