NYT Connections today hints and answers for Thursday, November 21 (game #529)

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Thu, 21 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 #529) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are FETT POLO STAR OXFORD SPONGE BUBBLE PENN PEARL TORTE CORAL TEE ZIT JELLY FLANNEL TAPIOCA NYT Connections today (game #529) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: Top-half clothing type Green: Ingredients (or constituents) in a certain type of drink Blue: Under the sea Purple: CANN is another

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 #529) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: KINDS OF SHIRTS GREEN: SPHERES IN MILK TEA BLUE: MARINE INVERTEBRATES, FAMILIARLY PURPLE: STARTS OF PASTA NAMES

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #529) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #529, are YELLOW: KINDS OF SHIRTS FLANNEL, OXFORD, POLO, TEE GREEN: SPHERES IN MILK TEA BOBA, BUBBLE, PEARL, TAPIOCA BLUE: MARINE INVERTEBRATES, FAMILIARLY CORAL, JELLY, SPONGE, STAR PURPLE: STARTS OF PASTA NAMES FETT, PENN, TORTE, ZIT My rating: Hard My
score: Fail

Okay, this was simply too difficult for me. I'm not beating myself up about
it I just wasn't smart enough to get all four groups. Scratch that I was only smart enough to get one group.

I solved yellow, spotting that FLANNEL and POLO were both KINDS OF SHIRTS.
TEE which until then I'd been thinking might be a homophone for TEA was obviously another inclusion, but I wasn't certain about the fourth. However I thought that maybe OXFORD was also an example and indeed it was. It's
probably to do with the university or something, I don't know but it seemed to fit (pardon the pun).

After that, though, nothing. I had several leads, and a couple were on the right lines, but I couldn't put the correct four together in either case. Green SPHERES IN MILK TEA was one that I had a hunch about, given that I know TAPIOCA is an ingredient and that they are PEARLs. And of course they contain BUBBLEs, too. But I've heard of BOBA, so didn't get that one.

Similarly, I figured that CORAL and SPONGE might go together in some sea-life-related group, and separately also considered JELLY and STAR as
words that have FISH after them. But I didn't put the four together, possibly because two were abbreviated and two were not. To me that feels a little unfair of the NYT, stating that they are all MARINE INVERTEBRATES,
FAMILIARLY; I'm not sure I've ever used the word STAR to refer to a starfish, or JELLY to talk about a jellyfish.

That wouldn't have mattered if I'd have solved one of the other groups, of course, so I won't dwell on it. And purple was simply far too difficult, I truly had no idea there at all. I guess I'll start building again tomorrow

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Wednesday, 20 November, game #528) YELLOW: SOUND LIKE A DOG BARK, BAY, HOWL, SNARL GREEN: BROADCAST, AS ONLINE MEDIA AIR, PLAY, RUN, STREAM BLUE: COCKTAIL-MAKING VERBS GARNISH, MUDDLE, STIR, STRAIN PURPLE: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES, METAPHORICALLY CHAIN, LADDER, PYRAMID, TREE 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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