Good morning! Let’s play Connections, a clever NYT word game that challenges you to group your answers into different categories. This may be complex, so read on if you need some guidance.
What should you do once you’re done? Of course, play more word games. I also have daily Wordle tips and answers, Strands tips and answers, and Quordle tips and answers articles if you need support with that too.
SPOILER WARNING: Today’s NYT Connections story is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections Today (Game #526) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- DOMINO
- DRYER
- VIOLINIST
- LADYBIRD
- INTERNET
- HORSESHOE
- SPIDER
- RENT
- HAIR SPRAY
- GAS
- DALMATIAN
- COMB
- PHONE
- HERMIT
- ROLLS
- DIE
NYT Connections Today (Game #526) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some tips for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: You can find them at the hairdressing salon
- Green: Payday loan expenses
- Blue: They are dotted
- Purple: Lateral movements
Need more tips?
We’re now in spoiler territory, but read on if you want to know the four thematic answers to today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
Today NYT Connections (Game #526) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the responses to today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: USED IN HAIR CARE
- GREEN: MONTHLY EXPENSES
- BLUE: THINGS WITH POINTS
- PURPLE: ___ CRAB
Sure, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #526) – answers
The answers for today’s Connections game, game #526, are…
- YELLOW: USED IN HAIR CARE COMB, DRYER, HAIRSPRAY, ROLLERS
- GREEN: MONTHLY EXPENSES GAS, INTERNET, PHONE, RENTAL
- BLUE: THINGS WITH POINTS DALMATIAN, DIE, DOMINO, BIEDRONKA
- PURPLE: ___ CRAB Fiddler, Hermit, Horseshoe, Spider
- My rating: Moderate
- My result: Perfect
I almost managed to get an inverted rainbow today, which I’ve only done once before. This is the term used by the NYT when you solve the four groups of connections in reverse order – that is, purple, then blue, then green, and finally the easiest yellow.
Unfortunately (in a way – it doesn’t really matter in reality!) I got blue first, so that dream died. But the strange thing was that my brain initially noticed the two hardest ones and had to work a little harder to solve green and yellow.
Blue was good: THINGS WITH POINTS, with DALMATIAN, DIE, DOMINO and LADYBUG. I always find it helpful to not only look at the words, but also think about them visually. By doing this here, I created an image of a spotted Dalmatian and a domino, at which point I started looking for others and found them both.
Meanwhile, the color purple required a bit of general knowledge. I hadn’t actually heard of FIDDLER CRAB, but I knew HERMIT, SPIDER, and HORSESHOE, and FIDDLER fit better than any of the other remaining words (INTERNET CRAB? HAIRSPRAY CRAB? Of course not!), so I played it and guessed correctly. Green and yellow were quite straightforward at this stage, so I completed today’s one without any mistakes – which is scarce for me.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Sunday, November 17, Game 525)
- YELLOW: ALLIANCE ASSOCIATION, guild, league, union
- GREEN: TIGHT FIT TIGHT-FIT, ELEGANT, LINEN, BUTTON
- BLUE: OCCASIONS WHEN YOU CAN KNEEL APOLOGY, DUBBING, PRAYER, PROPOSAL
- PURPLE: WHAT APOSPROPH COULD MEAN CONTRACTION, FOOTER, POSSESSION, QUOTE
What are NYT calls?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. The task is to find groups of four items that have something in common, and each group has a different level of difficulty: green is straightforward, yellow is slightly more complex, blue is often quite complex, and purple is usually very complex.
The advantage is that you technically don’t have to solve the last one because you will be able to answer it by process of elimination. What’s more, you can make as many as four mistakes, which gives you some slack.
However, it’s a little more complicated than something like Wordle, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to throw you into tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other wordplay that can concealed answers.
You can play it for free via NYT Gaming Site on your desktop computer or mobile phone.
