Good morning! Let’s play Connections, a clever NYT word game that challenges you to group your answers into different categories. This may be arduous, 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 lend a hand 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 #517) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- THRONE
- SHRED
- RUGGED
- POWDER
- RADICAL
- BATH
- LICK
- POWER
- TWISTED
- SOURCE
- REST
- BENT
- TRACK
- WARPED
- EXPONENT
- OUNCE
NYT Connections Today (Game #517) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some tips for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Crooked
- Green: A little bit
- Blue: Mathematical terms
- Purple: The first part of the words denoting the place where you run your business!
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 #517) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the responses to today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: DISCARDED
- GREEN: LOWEST QUANTITY
- BLUE: ALGEBRA TERMS
- PURPLE: THE WORDS BEFORE “ROOM” MEAN TOILET
Sure, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #517) – answers
The answers for today’s Connections game, game #517, are…
- YELLOW: DISCARDED BENT, ENCOURAGED, TWISTED, WARPED
- GREEN: LOWEST QUANTITY LICK, OUNCE, CRUSH, FOLLOW
- BLUE: ALGEBRA TERMS EXPONENT, POWER, RADICAL, FIRST
- PURPLE: THE WORDS BEFORE “ROOM” MEAN TOILET BATH, POWDER, REST, THRONE
- My rating: Moderate
- My result: Perfect
Sometimes you need a little luck in Connections, just like in Wordle. Example: how I solved the purple group today. I thought the combination was “words that go along the foot” and REST, POWDER and BATH seemed to fit basically. It wasn’t a very good combination, but I thought it was worth a try. For the fourth one, I decided TRON might work – maybe FOOT THRONE is an elegant term for a footstool that I haven’t heard? It’s stupid, yes, but I tried it and was surprised and delighted to see that it was true. Well, sort of. Actually the connection was: THE WORDS BEFORE “ROOM” MEAN TOILET, which was quite witty. But they all count, right?
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Friday, November 8, Game 516)
- YELLOW: ESCAPADE ANTIC, CAPER, EXPLOIT, STUNT
- GREEN: TYPES OF PICKLES DILL, KOSHER, SOUR, SWEET
- BLUE: RISKY ADULT, BLUE, piquant, suggestive
- PURPLE: CUT-OUT ___ CHEESE, STRING, WALL, MUSTARD
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 effortless, yellow is slightly more arduous, blue is often quite arduous, and purple is usually very arduous.
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 unrecognized answers.
You can play it for free via NYT Gaming Site on your desktop computer or mobile phone.
