6 hours Ago By [email protected] (Marc McLaren)
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 , and articles if you need help for those too. Today's NYT Connections words are..
. What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? 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..
. What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. The answers to today's Connections, game #533, are.
.. Does it matter how you beat Connections, so long as you do? Probably not, but it is more satisfying when you get the answer right because you know what it is, rather than because you got lucky.
That happened to me today with the purple group, ASSOCIATED PRINCIPLES IN CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, and it's just as well that it did. I'd solved blue (PARTS OF A SHIP), which was remarkably easy for that color, and yellow (ATTAIN), but had already wasted one guess on what turned out to be the green group, LARGE GROUP. For some reason I'd placed DECK with CROWD, FLOCK and HOST, when the final answer was SEA, and hadn't yet realized what the connection was here beyond 'groups with lots of things', and was thinking that DECK was in there as in 'deck of cards'.
Anyway, DECK was now out of the running due to it appearing in blue, so I should really have spotted the green connection and moved on. Instead, once burned, I looked at the other words and decided that maybe they were part of some 'opposites' connection: YANG (and yin), MASCULINE (and feminine), LIGHT (and dark). I wasn't sure what EXPANSIVE was the opposite of (narrow, maybe?) but decided to include it anyway and it revealed the purple group.
Great! Except obviously I'd got the connection sort of wrong. I guess they all count, though..
. How did you do today? and let me know..
