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 8 (game #881).
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 #882) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- NOODLE
- MIRROR
- CRONUT
- MUSE
- COMPACT
- CRANIUM
- REFLECT
- TWEEZERS
- PUFNSTUF
- DENSE
- BRUSH
- TIGHT
- DELIBERATE
- LUNAR
- THICK
- NAIL FILE
NYT Connections today (game #882) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Keep yourself tidy
- GREEN: Jammed in
- BLUE: Think about it
- PURPLE: Words that sound avarian
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 #882) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: PERSONAL GROOMING ITEMS
- GREEN: PACKED
- BLUE: PONDER
- PURPLE: STARTING WITH BIRD HOMOPHONES
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #882) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #882, are…
- 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
- My rating: Easy
- My score: 1 mistake
If we put aside the purple group – I had to Google ‘loon’ after the game to make sure – then this was a pretty straightforward round.
Having said that, I still managed to find a way to make a mistake and included COMPACT instead of MIRROR among my PERSONAL GROOMING ITEMS. I doubt I was alone in doing this, but I felt irked afterwards that i hadn’t achieved a clean run.
It’s also a surprise to me that I didn’t get PONDER a little more quickly considering the large percentage of my life that I spend in that particular state attempting to solve this very game.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Saturday, November 8, game #881)
- YELLOW: BLOCK, AS AN OPENING CLOSE, PLUG, SEAL, STOP
- GREEN: PUT FORWARD, AS AN ANNOUNCEMENT DELIVER, GIVE, PRESENT, PRONOUNCE
- BLUE: KINDS OF LANGUAGE BODY, PROGRAMMING, SIGN, SPOKEN
- PURPLE: WORDS AFTER “|” BEAM, CHING, ROBOT, SPY
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.
