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 Tuesday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, November 18 (game #891).
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 #892) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- SQUAT
- SHEPHERD
- PIT
- FALL
- LUNGE
- LEAD
- SKINK
- SOLID
- HUSKY
- CASK
- DIRECT
- COLONY
- GUIDE
- THICK
- MASQUE
- HEARTH
NYT Connections today (game #892) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Bulky build
- GREEN: Indicate the way to go
- BLUE: Allan Edgar tales
- PURPLE: Body part plus
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 #892) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: STOCKY
- GREEN: STEER
- BLUE: SECOND WORDS IN POE STORIES, AFTER “THE”
- PURPLE: ORGAN PLUS A LETTER
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #892) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #892, are…
- 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
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 2 mistakes
I had a couple of bad ideas before I hit on the right ones. The first was thinking SQUAT and LUNGE should be joined by two exercises that don’t exist (SKINK and SHEPHERD). The next was connecting PIT, FALL, HEARTH and SQUAT with some vague notion that they had something to do with the earth.
Fortunately I came to my senses and got STEER pretty quickly. My triumph was getting the purple/hardest group after seeing the link between heart and lung in HEARTH and LUNGE.
With just eight tiles left I assembled STOCKY though a process of elimination, with HUSKY being a bit of a gamble – but one that made a lot more sense than the other four tiles that became SECOND WORDS IN POE STORIES, AFTER THE.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, November 18, game #891)
- YELLOW: FUNNY PERSON CLOWN, JOKER, LAUGH, RIOT
- GREEN: KINDS OF TOMATOES CHERRY, GRAPE, PLUM, ROMA
- BLUE: BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS BERRY, MADISON, STONE, SWANK
- PURPLE: ENDING IN SYNONYMS FOR “LOCATION” COMMONPLACE, NEEDLEPOINT, PARASITE, SUNSPOT
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.
