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 Wednesday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, November 19 (game #892).
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 #893) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- ARTY
- KISS
- ENAMEL
- ESSAY
- CROWN
- DECAY
- BRUSH
- PASTE
- ANY
- SKIM
- PLASTER
- PULP
- STICK
- STROKE
- ROOT
- FIX
NYT Connections today (game #893) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Attach one to another
- GREEN: Lightly touch
- BLUE: Dental elements
- PURPLE: Several characters in one
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 #893) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: ADHERE
- GREEN: GRAZE
- BLUE: PARTS OF A TOOTH
- PURPLE: WORDS THAT SOUND LIKE TWO LETTERS
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #893) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #893, are…
- YELLOW: ADHERE FIX, PASTE, PLASTER, STICK
- GREEN: GRAZE BRUSH, KISS, SKIM, STROKE
- BLUE: PARTS OF A TOOTH CROWN, ENAMEL, PULP, ROOT
- PURPLE: WORDS THAT SOUND LIKE TWO LETTERS ANY, ARTY, DECAY, ESSAY
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 2 mistakes
There were lots of old bands hiding among today’s tiles. PULP and KISS jumped out, but adding or taking away letters there was also Rush, Strokes, Roots and Fixx. But it wasn’t this that led me to making two unnecessary errors.
Seeing CROWN and ROOT I was convinced that I needed to gather a group that was about dentistry rather than the far more obvious PARTS OF A TOOTH, so I wasted several mistakes adding DECAY and then BRUSH, before finally seeing sense.
If I’d have spoken the remaining tiles out loud I may have solved the purple/hardest group – kudos to those that did. However, instead I labored over ADHERE and memories of a past job sticking up concert posters around London (I wasn’t fast enough to last long).
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Wednesday, November 19, game #892)
- YELLOW: STOCKY HUSKY, SOLID, SQUAT, THICK
- GREEN: STEER DIRECT, GUIDE, LEAD, SHEPHERD
- BLUE: SECOND WORDS IN POE STORIES, AFTER “THE” CASK, FALL, MASQUE, PIT
- PURPLE: ORGAN PLUS A LETTER COLONY, HEARTH, LUNGE, SKINK
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.
