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 #505) - today's words
Today's NYT Connections words are…
- SPELL
- LOVE
- PLEASE
- HOLD
- PRESTO
- MEAN
- THANK YOU
- SHAZAM
- AUDIBLE
- ABRACADABRA
- SIGNIFY
- TIDAL
- SUGGEST
- HAVE
- PANDORA
- CHERISH
NYT Connections today (game #505) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Not Spotify
- Green: Point towards
- Blue: I do
- Purple: Could conjure up a good response
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 #505) - hint #2 - group answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: AUDIO APPS
- GREEN: INDICATE
- BLUE: CHURCH OF ENGLAND WEDDING VOW VERBS
- PURPLE: MAGIC WORDS
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #505) - the answers
The answers to today's Connections, game #505, are…
- YELLOW: AUDIO APPS AUDIBLE, PANDORA, SHAZAM, TIDAL
- GREEN: INDICATE MEAN, SIGNIFY, SPELL, SUGGEST
- BLUE: CHURCH OF ENGLAND WEDDING VOW VERBS CHERISH, HAVE, HOLD, LOVE
- PURPLE: MAGIC WORDS ABRACADABRA, PLEASE, PRESTO, THANK YOU
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 1 hint
There's no way that yellow today is the easiest one. Or if it is, it just points the way to this being a relatively tricky Connections to solve. The four AUDIO APPS here – AUDIBLE, PANDORA, SHAZAM and TIDAL – are all familiar to me, sure, but I'm a technology journalist and former music journalist. I sincerely doubt the average person will spot all four of these. It feels more like a blue group, or even purple.
To make matters worse, one of the words here – SHAZAM – could easily have gone with ABRACADABRA and PRESTO as part of MAGIC WORDS. Instead, the missing two were PLEASE and THANK YOU – which gave me a proper moment when I realized what the NYT had done here. Smart.
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Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Sunday, 27 October, game #504)
- YELLOW: SASSY CUTE, FRESH, SMART, WISE
- GREEN: AMBIENCE AIR, FEELING, MOOD, QUALITY
- BLUE: UNITS BAR, BEL, LUX, MOLE
- PURPLE: THE LITTLE ___ MERMAID, PRINCE, RASCALS, TRAMP
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.
