NYT Connections today hints and answers for Tuesday, November 5 (game #513)

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Tue, 05 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 #513) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are CATERPILLAR CLAM MUSHROOM KINGDOM TURTLE PEACH EGG PIPE CLEANER PRINCESS MARKER DONKEY CARPET NUT DRAGON FLEECE OGRE NYT Connections today (game #513) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: Fluffy things Green: Enclosed in a hard case Blue: Appear in a Mike Myers movie Purple: [Abracadabra!] 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 #513) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: THINGS THAT ARE FUZZY GREEN: THINGS WITH SHELLS BLUE: FIGURES IN SHREK PURPLE: MAGIC ___

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #513) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #513, are YELLOW: THINGS THAT ARE FUZZY CATERPILLAR, FLEECE, PEACH, PIPE CLEANER GREEN: THINGS WITH SHELLS
CLAM, EGG, NUT, TURTLE BLUE: FIGURES IN SHREK DONKEY, DRAGON, OGRE, PRINCESS PURPLE: MAGIC ___ CARPET, KINGDOM, MARKER, MUSHROOM My rating: Moderate My score: Fail

I am so, so annoyed at myself today. I failed today's game my first loss for several weeks but really shouldn't have done so. My mistake was to incorrectly identify the purple MAGIC___ group. Or rather, I correctly identified the connection but not the words that went within it.

Early on I spotted MARKER, MUSHROOM, CARPET and KINGDOM, the four solutions, but also for some reason included FLEECE. I was thinking of the golden
fleece, from Greek myth, but erroneously decided it was called magic not golden. That led me to three times guess groups that included FLEECE but not one of the other four, and lose most of my guesses. I then looked elsewhere and lost my final attempt on the THINGS THAT ARE FUZZY group.

The frustrating thing was that I had solved green (THINGS WITH SHELLS) and blue (FIGURES IN SHREK ) without too much trouble. If I'd merely have sense-checked that purple group more carefully I'm sure I'd have completed this. D'oh!

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Monday, 4 November, game #512) YELLOW: EQUIP FURNISH, OUTFIT, PROVISION, STOCK GREEN: INDIVIDUALITY BEING, CHARACTER, EGO, SELF BLUE: FURNITURE CHEST, CONSOLE, VANITY, WARDROBE PURPLE: WORDS WITH APOSTROPHES REMOVED CANT, ID, SHELL, WERE 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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