Find the links between the words to win today’s game of Connections.
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Each day’s game of NYT Connections goes live at midnight local time. Before we get to today’s NYT Connections hints and answers, here’s what you missed on Tuesday:
ForbesNYT Connections Hints And Answers For Tuesday, November 18 (#891)By Kris Holt
It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: it’s time for another round of Connections!
I mentioned on Monday that “Toxic” is a song I would hear a lot in my early days of going to nightclubs. I actually started going to clubs when I was 16 (bear in mind that the legal drinking age in the U.K. is 18). I never had much interest in alcohol at the time. I just wanted to dance and have fun with my buds.
On one of my first trips to a club – a cool place in my hometown that had live bands in one room and a rock DJ in the other – one of my friends was asked for ID. He was the only one of the group who was over 18, and he didn’t have his ID with him. The rest of us went inside and he went home. I feel a little bad about ditching him. But that was a good night. After all, I wasn’t yet drinking booze, so I can remember it quite clearly.
Before we start, I want to mention the great community we have on Discord, where we chat about Connections, the rest of the NYT games and all kinds of other stuff. It’s a lovely, welcoming group of folks. I like to call it our cozy little corner of the internet. You’re more than welcome to join us. Don’t be shy!
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, November 19 are coming right up. Let’s get rolling!
NYT Connections – How To Play
Connections is a free New York Times daily word game that you can play on the NYT’s website or Games app. If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the Connections archive, which includes every previous game.
Connections presents you with a grid of 16 words (sometimes phrases, symbols or numbers). The aim is to arrange them into four groups of four. You don’t know how they hit together or what the category for each group is: that’s what you have to figure out.
There’s only one correct solution and there are often red herrings. You can guess incorrectly three times. A fourth wrong guess, and it’s game over.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to deduce, followed by blue, green and purple. Often, the yellow and green groups have synonyms, the blues have cultural references and the purples have some kind of wordplay involved. But this is not a hard and fast rule. Be ready for curveballs – part of the fun of Connections is in how the NYT shakes things up to keep you on your toes.
As with Wordle and similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends using an emoji-based grid. The game tracks your progress too.
Many players take pride in having long win streaks or getting a reverse rainbow – correctly guessing the purple, blue, green and yellow groups in that order with no mistakes. That adds an extra little challenge.
NYT Connections Hints – Today’s Word List
Scroll slowly! I’ll first give you a list of today’s words, then a hint for each category. After that, I’ll reveal one word that goes into each group. Then I’ll tell you the category names, followed by the full answers.
Today’s 16 words are…
SQUATSHEPHERDPITFALLLUNGELEADSKINKSOLIDHUSKYCASKDIRECTCOLONYGUIDETHINKMASQUEHEARTHNYT Connections Hints
And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:
🟨 Yellow group — well-built, perhaps like a bouncer🟩 Green group — move in a certain way🟦 Blue group — angel, narrative, conversation and premature might help you get a read on this🟪 Purple group — harm and livery would fit in hereNYT Connections Hints – One Answer Per Group
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Let’s take a look at one answer for each group.
Here we go…
🟨 Yellow group — SOLID🟩 Green group — LEAD🟦 Blue group — PIT🟪 Purple group — SKINKNYT Connections Hints – Groups/Categories
Today’s Connections groups are…
🟨 Yellow group — stocky 🟩 Green group — steer🟦 Blue group — second words in Poe stories, after “The” 🟪 Purple group — organ plus a letter NYT Connections Answers
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.
This is your last chance to look away.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections answers are…
🟨 Yellow group — stocky (HUSKY, SOLID, SQUAT, THICK)🟩 Green group — steer (DIRECT, GUIDE, LEAD, SHEPHERD)🟦 Blue group — second words in Poe stories, after “The” (CASK, FALL, MASQUE, PIT)🟪 Purple group — organ plus a letter (COLONY, HEARTH, LUNGE, SKINK)
Nothing was really popping out at me when I first opened today’s grid. But returning to it with fresh eyes a while later made a world of difference. The greens jumped out at me right away at that point. And, despite the red herring of LUNGE and SQUAT as exercises, I got the yellows (which are synonyms) in short order.
SKINK seemed like a bit of an outlier. The only thing I associate that with is the Scottish dish cullen skink, so I figured there was some wordplay going on. Sure enough, it landed next to HEARTH and COLONY as I hit the shuffle button a few times, and I was able to figure out the purples. They refer to colon, heart, lung and skin.
A good thing I got the purples, too, as I had absolutely no clue about the blues. I am not nearly familiar enough with Edgar Allan Poe to have figured these out, so that group was completely by default for me today. The stories referenced here are:
The Cask of AmontilladoThe Fall of the House of UsherThe Masque of the Red DeathThe Pit and the Pendulum
My overall streak now sits at 263 wins. How did you get on today?
Here’s my grid:
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No Answers Explained column today, since there wasn’t a whole lot that needed explaining, I don’t think.
So, that’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Thursday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I guess we’re doing a puppet/Muppet theme with the recommendations this week. For my money, this is unironically one of the best songs of the 2010s. It’s funny, smart and – I would argue – quite profound. I am, of course, talking about “Man or Muppet” from the 2011 movie The Muppets:
Songwriter Bret McKenzie’s performance of the track is very good too:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!
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