By 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 #536) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- QUACK
- GOBBLE
- THANKS
- GIVING
- FAT
- TACO
- BOLT
- PRAISE
- SUPER
- CREDIT
- CON
- DOWN
- CHEAT
- SCARF
- FAKE
- RECOGNITION
NYT Connections today (game #536) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Well done!
- Green: Not what they seem
- Blue: Devour
- Purple: Black [weekday]
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 #536) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: APPRECIATION
- GREEN: FRAUDSTER
- BLUE: EAT VORACIOUSLY
- PURPLE: ___ TUESDAY
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #536) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #536, are…
- YELLOW: APPRECIATION CREDIT, PRAISE, RECOGNITION, THANKS
- GREEN: FRAUDSTER CHEAT, CON, FAKE, QUACK
- BLUE: EAT VORACIOUSLY BOLT, DOWN, GOBBLE, SCARF
- PURPLE: ___ TUESDAY FAT, GIVING, SUPER, TACO
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the US! And er, happy Black Friday Eve to everyone else. Inevitably, the NYT threw in some misdirection on the grid today, placing QUACK, GOBBLE, THANKS and GIVING as the first four words on the top row.
But of course this was a red herring. QUACK went with CHEAT, CON and FAKE for the green group (FRAUDSTER), while GOBBLE was grouped with BOLT, DOWN and SCARF for the timely EAT VORACIOUSLY (blue).
Yellow, as is usually the case, was simpler still – APPRECIATION was simply a bunch of synonyms including the aforementioned THANKS, which meant I didn’t need to solve the hardest purple group. This included GIVING, which formed a group of the blank kind with FAT, SUPER and TACO. The connection was apparently ___ TUESDAY, but given that SUPER TUESDAY was the only one of the four I’ve heard of, there was no way I was ever going to get that.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Wednesday, 27 November, game #535)
- 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
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.
