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 #530) - today's words
Today's NYT Connections words are…
- FANTASY
- TEAMS
- LOVE
- ATTENTION
- LENS
- EXPOSURE
- POSITION
- MEET
- ZOOM
- SHUTTER
- PRESS
- ANGLE
- TREASURE
- COVERAGE
- PERSPECTIVE
- SLACK
NYT Connections today (game #530) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Celebrities want this
- Green: How you look at things
- Blue: Is my camera on?
- Purple: Blank [body surrounded by water]
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 #530) - hint #2 - group answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: PUBLICITY
- GREEN: POINT OF VIEW
- BLUE: WORK COMMUNICATION PLATFORMS
- PURPLE: “___ ISLAND”
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #530) - the answers
The answers to today's Connections, game #530, are…
- YELLOW: PUBLICITY ATTENTION, COVERAGE, EXPOSURE, PRESS
- GREEN: POINT OF VIEW ANGLE, LENS, PERSPECTIVE, POSITION
- BLUE: WORK COMMUNICATION PLATFORMS MEET, SLACK, TEAMS, ZOOM
- PURPLE: “___ ISLAND” FANTASY, LOVE, SHUTTER, TREASURE
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
I came so close to scoring a reverse rainbow today, where you solve the puzzles from hard to easy, but sadly got blue before purple. However, the fact that I was so near reflects that even the supposedly tough groups today were rather simple.
That said, blue may not be such a cinch if you haven't been an office worker of some kind in the past few years. To those of us who have, MEET, SLACK, TEAMS and ZOOM are as familiar as our own names – hence why I solved it so quickly.
Purple was a piece of cake too. This was a 'blank' type, as they so often are, and the missing word on this occasion was ISLAND. With TREASURE, FANTASY, LOVE and SHUTTER as the solutions, there was nothing particularly difficult about it, certainly compared to yesterday's effort (which I failed). SHUTTER is probably the least obvious of them, but is my favorite of the quartet; it's a 2010 Martin Scorsese film.
Anyway, with the two supposedly tough ones done, it was even easier to complete green (POINT OF VIEW) and yellow (PUBLICITY) and get my streak going again.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Thursday, 21 November, game #529)
- 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
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.
