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 clues.
What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too.
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 #532) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- LURCH
- TRANCE
- TREE
- THING
- TRAY
- REEL
- WEDNESDAY
- JUNGLE
- PITCH
- IDEA
- HEAVE
- PERSON
- BLOND
- HOUSE
- AMBIENT
- PLACE
NYT Connections today (game #532) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Move from side to side
- Green: Subject
- Blue: Hey DJ!
- Purple: [Residue of fire] blank
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 #532) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: CAREEN
- GREEN: WHAT A NOUN MIGHT BE
- BLUE: ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC GENRES
- PURPLE: WORDS AFTER “ASH”
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #532) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #532, are…
- YELLOW: CAREEN HEAVE, LURCH, PITCH, REEL
- GREEN: WHAT A NOUN MIGHT BE IDEA, PERSON, PLACE, THING
- BLUE: ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC GENRES AMBIENT, HOUSE, JUNGLE, TRANCE
- PURPLE: WORDS AFTER “ASH” BLOND, TRAY, TREE, WEDNESDAY
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: Fail
Sigh. My fledgling streak is back to zero again after a mere two victories, and today I don’t even have the excuse that it was a particularly difficult day. It wasn’t an easy one either, mind, but I’d say this counted as a standard day, rather than anything worse than that.
I managed to solve blue, too, so the fact that I couldn’t get any of the others was frustrating. Blue was ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC GENRES with AMBIENT, HOUSE, JUNGLE and TRANCE, so my long-ago past in the clubs of London helped here. But that was as far as it went.
I thought there was an Addams Family connection with WEDNESDAY, THING and LURCH, but this was classic misdirection by the NYT and cost me two guesses as I tried to think of what the fourth could be (TREE? PERSON? I didn’t remember the show well enough to know). I then wasted the other two on IDEA, PITCH, REEL as some kind of ‘calling cards for an ad agency’ type group, but was on the wrong track here too. Still, tomorrow is a new day…
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Saturday, 23 November, game #531)
- YELLOW: TELLING OF EVENTS ACCOUNT, CHRONICLE, DESCRIPTION, STORY
- GREEN: SECRETED BY TREES GUM, LATEX, RESIN, SAP
- BLUE: THINGS ON STICKS BALL-IN-CUP, CORN DOG, COTTON SWAB, LOLLIPOP
- PURPLE: BLACK OR RED BALANCE SHEET, CHECKERS, LICORICE, ROULETTE
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.