NYT Connections today hints and answers for Sunday, November 17 (game #525)

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Sun, 17 Nov 2024 00:02:00 +0000

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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

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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 #525) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are APOLOGY QUOTATION ASSOCIATION CONTRACTION CLINGY UNION POSSESSIVE SLINKY PROPOSAL SNUG PRAYER LEAGUE GUILD DUBBING FOOT SLEEK NYT Connections today (game #525) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: Grouping Green: Tight, as clothing Blue: Reasons to get down low Purple: Meanings behind a grammatical mark

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 #525) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: ALLIANCE GREEN: CLOSE-FITTING BLUE: OCCASIONS WHEN ONE MIGHT KNEEL PURPLE: WHAT AN APOSTROPHE MIGHT INDICATE

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #525) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #525, are YELLOW: ALLIANCE ASSOCIATION, GUILD, LEAGUE, UNION GREEN: CLOSE-FITTING CLINGY, SLEEK, SLINKY, SNUG BLUE: OCCASIONS WHEN ONE MIGHT KNEEL APOLOGY, DUBBING, PRAYER, PROPOSAL PURPLE: WHAT AN APOSTROPHE MIGHT INDICATE CONTRACTION, FOOT, POSSESSIVE, QUOTATION My rating: Hard My score: 2 mistakes

This was a tough one. I started off well enough, with yellow (ALLIANCE) not causing me any problems. But after that I got stuck.

I could see several possible directions for instance SLEEK and SLINKY, or CLINGY and POSSESSIVE, or indeed POSSESSIVE and CONTRACTION and QUOTATION
but no complete group. I tried a couple of wild guesses and got them wrong both times, then returned to the last of those possibles; POSSESSIVE, CONTRACTION and QUOTATION are all grammar terms, so what could the third be? And then it dawned on me they weren't terms as such, they were all examples of WHAT AN APOSTROPHE MIGHT INDICATE, with FOOT the fourth.

That gave me purple, with two guesses remaining. My best lead was on
PROPOSAL, PRAYER and APOLOGY, which I figured were all examples of something you might offer up but I didn't know what the fourth was. So I looked at the other words and realized that CLINGY, SLEEK, SLINKY and SNUG were all
examples of things that were CLOSE-FITTING; I really should have got that sooner.

That left blue by default, where the answer was apparently OCCASIONS WHEN ONE MIGHT KNEEL, with DUBBING being the fourth. And I have no idea whatsoever about why, because I don't know of any context that fits. If you can
enlighten me, please do!

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Saturday, 16 November, game #524) 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 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.



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