1 week 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 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. Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief and has been obsessed with Wordle and its ilk for more than two years.
He's authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar, including a daily today's Wordle answer column and a detailed analysis of the most common letters in Wordle in every position . He's also played every Wordle ever and only lost once and yes, he takes it all too seriously. NYT Connections today (game #524) - today's words Today's NYT Connections words are.
.. ROGUE CAP GATOR SEAL BERET WOLVERINE COMMANDO FIGURE VOLUNTEER DERBY PILLBOX COVER PLUG SNAPBACK SOONER BANANAS NYT Connections today (game #524) - hint #1 - group hints What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: Stoppers Green: Headgear Blue: Not-quite-NFL-yet athletes Purple: [Move/travel] 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.
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Sign up to be the first to know about unmissable Black Friday deals on top tech, plus get all your favorite TechRadar content. NYT Connections today (game #524) - hint #2 - group answers What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: THINGS THAT PREVENT LEAKS GREEN: KINDS OF HATS BLUE: COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM MEMBERS PURPLE: GO ___ Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #524) - the answers The answers to today's Connections, game #524, are.
.. YELLOW: THINGS THAT PREVENT LEAKS CAP, COVER, PLUG, SEAL GREEN: KINDS OF HATS BERET, DERBY, PILLBOX, SNAPBACK BLUE: COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM MEMBERS GATOR, SOONER, VOLUNTEER, WOLVERINE PURPLE: GO ___ BANANAS, COMMANDO, FIGURE, ROGUE My rating: Moderate My score: 1 mistake I needed a lot of guesswork to solve today's Connections, because two of the groups were about subjects of which I know very, very little.
These were KINDS OF HATS (green) and COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM MEMBERS (blue), and both were way outside of my comfort zone. Fortunately, I was able to solve purple first. This is always a good thing, because it meant I had the supposedly toughest group out of the way already.
Format-wise, it was the hardest – those __blank word games can be very difficult compared to the type that are simply collections of linked things/terms. But equally, there's no specialist knowledge required, whereas College Football..
. well, seeing as I'm based in the UK and don't even really know (or care) what a quarterback is, I was never going to get that one. The NYT's seeming obsession with putting football-related answers in Connections is really quite frustrating – especially as there's a dedicated Sports version of the game now! Anyway, I got purple through spotting that GO COMMANDO and GO ROGUE were both phrases, so adding BANANAS and FIGURE was not too tricky.
Yellow was easy enough, too. And at that stage, I simply had to guess. I knew a PILLBOX was a hat (thanks to the Dylan song), and of course knew that BERET was too.
I thought that DERBY also was, and decided to guess at the fourth. I had one failed attempt, then got lucky with SNAPBACK (no idea what that is!) and lived to fight another day. How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
YELLOW: FISSURE CRACK, HOLE, LEAK, PUNCTURE GREEN: ELEMENTS OF WRITING LETTER, PHRASE, SENTENCE, WORD BLUE: INSTRUMENTS YOU BLOW INTO JUG, PIPE, RECORDER, WHISTLE PURPLE: ___ OF TIME NICK, PASSAGE, SANDS, WASTE 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..
