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 #535) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- RUBBER
- BABY
- BUGGY
- BUMPER
- HOUSE
- MIRROR
- ERRATIC
- TRIBUTE
- SPOTTY
- PLANT
- PET
- WEDDING
- BOY
- GRILLE
- GLITCHY
- RIM
NYT Connections today (game #535) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Breaking down
- Green: GEARS is another
- Blue: Need looking after sometimes
- Purple: Blank [word for a musical group and other things]
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 #535) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: NOT WORKING RELIABLY
- GREEN: CAR PARTS
- BLUE: WHAT A SITTER MIGHT SIT
- PURPLE: ___ BAND
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #535) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #535, are…
- YELLOW: NOT WORKING RELIABLY BUGGY, ERRATIC, GLITCHY, SPOTTY
- GREEN: CAR PARTS BUMPER, GRILLE, MIRROR, RIM
- BLUE: WHAT A SITTER MIGHT SIT BABY, HOUSE, PET, PLANT
- PURPLE: ___ BAND BOY, RUBBER, TRIBUTE, WEDDING
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 3 mistakes
I came this close [makes gesture of roughly 1 inch space] to failing again here, only to scrape home at the last gasp following the realization that I was missing an obvious connection.
Things had started off well, with yellow – NOT WORKING RELIABLY – standing out immediately. I made an incorrect guess on blue, before spotting that WHAT A SITTER MIGHT SIT applied to BABY, HOUSE, PET and PLANT. But there I stalled.
I could see that MIRROR, GRILLE and BUMPER were all CAR PARTS, but it didn’t occur to me that RIM would be another. A rim is a part of a car, I guess, but it doesn’t seem as integral as the others; there are rims on many things other than cars. So I went with RUBBER, thinking of tires, and when that was wrong switched tack and tried something with WEDDING, TRIBUTE and er MIRROR and BOY with the vague thought that it might be something like ‘Things you would make a speech to’, which was quite clearly a terrible guess and obviously wrong. So I returned to cars and this time thought a bit harder, at which point RIM seemed like it had to fit. And it did of course, but I felt like a right fool.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, 26 November, game #534)
- YELLOW: GOOD THINGS TO GET AT WORK BONUS, EQUITY, PROMOTION, RAISE
- GREEN: DISREGARD DISCOUNT, FORGET, IGNORE, OVERLOOK
- BLUE: KINDS OF CRACKERS ANIMAL, CLUB, GOLDFISH, RITZ
- PURPLE: FEATURED IN “ELOISE” ELOISE, PLAZA, PUG, TURTLE
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.