NYT Connections today hints and answers for Monday, November 18 (game #526)

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Mon, 18 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 #526) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are DOMINO DRYER FIDDLER LADYBUG INTERNET HORSESHOE SPIDER RENT HAIRSPRAY GAS DALMATIAN COMB PHONE HERMIT ROLLERS DIE NYT Connections today (game #526) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: You might
find them in a hair salon Green: Payday expenses Blue: They're dotty Purple: Sideways movers

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 #526) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: USED IN HAIR CARE GREEN: MONTHLY EXPENSES BLUE: THINGS WITH SPOTS PURPLE: ___ CRAB

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #526) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #526, are YELLOW: USED IN HAIR CARE COMB, DRYER, HAIRSPRAY, ROLLERS GREEN: MONTHLY EXPENSES GAS, INTERNET, PHONE, RENT BLUE: THINGS WITH SPOTS DALMATIAN, DIE, DOMINO, LADYBUG PURPLE: ___ CRAB FIDDLER, HERMIT, HORSESHOE, SPIDER My rating: Moderate My score: Perfect

I nearly scored a reverse rainbow today, which I've only done once before. This is the NYT's term for when you solve the four Connections groups in reverse difficulty order so purple, then blue, then green, then the easiest yellow.

Unfortunately (sort of it really doesn't matter in reality!) I got blue first, so that dream died there. But it was strange that my brain spotted the two hardest ones initially and had to work a bit harder to solve green and yellow.

Blue was a good one: THINGS WITH SPOTS, with DALMATIAN, DIE, DOMINO and LADYBUG. I always find it helpful to not just look at the words, but also think visually about them. Doing that here gave me the image of a spotty dalmatian and domino, at which point I went in search of others and found
them both.

Purple, meanwhile, was one that required a little general knowledge. I
haven't actually heard of a FIDDLER CRAB, but I knew HERMIT, SPIDER and HORSESHOE, and FIDDLER fit better than any of the other remaining words (INTERNET CRAB? HAIRSPRAY CRAB? Obviously not!) so I played that and guessed correctly. Green and yellow were pretty simple by that stage, so I completed today's without any mistakes a rarity for me.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Sunday, 17 November, game #525) 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 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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