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 #534) - today's words
Today's NYT Connections words are…
- PLAZA
- OVERLOOK
- BONUS
- DISCOUNT
- CLUB
- PROMOTION
- RITZ
- ANIMAL
- RAISE
- TURTLE
- GOLDFISH
- FORGET
- PUG
- IGNORE
- EQUITY
- ELOISE
NYT Connections today (game #534) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Better than being fired
- Green: Don't think about
- Blue: Types of thin, baked food
- Purple: Appear in a classic book
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 #534) - hint #2 - group answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: GOOD THINGS TO GET AT WORK
- GREEN: DISREGARD
- BLUE: KINDS OF CRACKERS
- PURPLE: FEATURED IN “ELOISE”
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #534) - the answers
The answers to today's Connections, game #534, are…
- YELLOW: GOOD THINGS TO GET AT WORK BONUS, EQUITY, PROMOTION, RAISE
- GREEN: DISREGARD DISCOUNT, FORGET, IGNORE, OVERLOOK
- BLUE: KINDS OF CRACKERS ANIMAL, CLUB, GOLDFISH, RITZ
- PURPLE: FEATURED IN “ELOISE” ELOISE, PLAZA, PUG, TURTLE
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: Perfect
Before I started writing this today I had no idea who or what ELOISE was. Nothing at all about it had ever crossed my cultural path, to the extent that when the answer popped up it wasn't one of those 'Oh, of course' moments, or even an 'Oh, I've vaguely heard of that' situations, but purely one of 'Er, what's that'. I know now that it was a 1950s illustrated book, but I'm completely baffled as to why it's an answer here. It doesn't even appear to be that famous – the entire first page of Google is about a song with that name or a 2007 movie. I can only imagine that it was a favorite of the NYT puzzle setters. Very strange.
Anyway, that was purple, and the good news for me was that it didn't impact my game at all, because I was able to solve the three easier groups instead. I did them in order of difficulty, starting with yellow (GOOD THINGS TO GET AT WORK) and green (DISREGARD), both of which were very simple, before (inevitably) getting stuck on the final groups. Eventually I put RITZ and GOLDFISH together as KINDS OF CRACKERS, and though I wasn't certain about CLUB or ANIMAL I had a hunch that they were right – a hunch of the kind I didn't get about ELOISE, because it had simply never fired a single one of my neurons at any point in the past. But now it has, so I guess that's a positive thing.
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Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Monday, 25 November, game #533)
- YELLOW: ATTAIN EARN, LAND, SCORE, WIN
- GREEN: LARGE GROUP CROWD, FLOCK, HOST, SEA
- BLUE: PARTS OF A SHIP ANCHOR, BOW, BRIDGE, DECK
- PURPLE: ASSOCIATED PRINCIPLES IN CHINESE PHILOSOPHY EXPANSIVE, LIGHT, MASCULINE, YANG
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.
