NYT Connections today hints and answers for Tuesday, November 19 (game #527)

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Tue, 19 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 #527) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are FOCUS FACE FIELD JEOPARDY RIBBON PIN WHEEL EAR PASSWORD AGENT CONCENTRATION FINGERPRINT STANDARD ELBOW SPECIALTY DRIBBLE NYT Connections today (game #527) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: Thing you're good at Green: Security measure Blue: BOW is another Purple: [Twice] 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 NYT
Connections today (game #527) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: AREA OF EXPERTISE GREEN: WAYS TO UNLOCK A DEVICE BLUE: PASTA SHAPES PURPLE: DOUBLE
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Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #527) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #527, are YELLOW: AREA OF EXPERTISE CONCENTRATION, FIELD, FOCUS, SPECIALTY GREEN: WAYS TO UNLOCK A DEVICE FACE, FINGERPRINT, PASSWORD, PIN BLUE: PASTA SHAPES EAR, ELBOW, RIBBON, WHEEL PURPLE: DOUBLE ___ AGENT, DRIBBLE, JEOPARDY, STANDARD My rating: Moderate My score: Perfect

I managed a perfect score today, but it owed a huge amount to luck. Not on
the first two groups, green and yellow in that order, which were both pretty simple. Green WAYS TO UNLOCK A DEVICE was particularly easy given that I'm
a technology journalist when not writing this column, with FACE, FINGERPRINT, PASSWORD and PIN all rather obvious.

As is so often the case, I struggled with blue and purple. I had a hunch that WHEEL and EAR might go together with a vague food theme: EAR of corn and
WHEEL of cheese, maybe? RIBBON felt like it could work for PASTA, while ELBOW well, I wasn't sure, but you get a knuckle of beef, so maybe there was an elbow somewhere. I guessed it without expecting it to be right, but to my amazement it was and for nearly the right reason. I'd been on the correct path with pasta, because these were all PASTA SHAPES, which was obvious after the fact. Purple was a difficult 'blank' variety that I wouldn't have got,
due to not knowing what DOUBLE DRIBBLE means.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Monday, 18 November, game #526) 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 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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