NYT Connections Today Tips and Answers for Wednesday, November 13 (Game #521)

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Good morning! Let’s play Connections, a clever NYT word game that challenges you to group your answers into different categories. This may be challenging, 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 aid with that too.

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SPOILER WARNING: Today’s NYT Connections story is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.

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Mark McLaren

NYT Connections Today (Game #521) – Today’s Words

NYT Connections tips for playing 521 on a purple background

(Photo: New York Times)

Today’s words from NYT Connections are…

  • MUSTARD
  • WING
  • WEDNESDAY
  • WORCESTERSHIRE
  • COLONEL
  • TATAR
  • CITRIC
  • MINION
  • CALCULUS
  • CANARY
  • ADDITION
  • PLAQUE
  • ENLARGEMENT
  • PHARAOH
  • RECESS
  • ATTACHMENT

NYT Connections Today (Game #521) – Hint #1 – Group Hints

What are some tips for today’s NYT Connections groups?

  • Yellow: Coward!
  • Green: Extra piece of house/office etc
  • Blue: Infection could be next
  • Purple: Missing syllables?

Need more tips?

We’re now in spoiler territory, but read on if you want to know the four topical answers to today’s NYT Connections puzzles…

Today NYT Connections (Game #521) – Hint #2 – Group Answers

What are the responses to today’s NYT Connections groups?

  • YELLOW: THINGS THAT ARE YELLOW
  • GREEN: BUILDING ADDITIONS
  • BLUE: CONCERNS ABOUT DENTISTS
  • PURPLE: WORDS THAT SEE LONGER WRITTEN THAN SPOKEN

Sure, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #521) – answers

NYT Connections answers to the game 521 on a purple background

(Photo: New York Times)

The answers for today’s Connections game, #521, are…

  • YELLOW: THINGS THAT ARE YELLOW CANARY, LEMON, MINION, MUSTARD
  • GREEN: BUILDING ADDITIONS ADDITION, ATTACHMENT, EXTENSION, WING
  • BLUE: CONCERNS ABOUT DENTISTS STONE, caries, dental plaque, tartar
  • PURPLE: WORDS THAT SEE LONGER WRITTEN THAN SPOKEN COLONEL, PHARAOH, WEDNESDAY, WORCESTERSHIRE

  • My rating: Moderate
  • My result: Perfect

Well done if you solved today’s purple group by anything other than luck, because it’s a little weird. I definitely needed some luck with this, because the combination – WORDS THAT SEE LONGER WRITTEN THAN SPOKEN – is really quite strange. First, don’t some of these activities depend on understanding how language works? Sure, if you didn’t know that PHARAON had a still second A, you might think it was pronounced PHAR-A-OH. But this also applies to KNOW (K-NO) or TRUTH (T-RUE). It’s only English! I’m not sure if PHARAON actually feels longer than it is written at all. Perhaps you could put WORCESTERSHIRE in this bracket, but only if you have never been to the UK. This all seems a bit arbitrary.

How I stumbled upon this was admittedly related. Instead, I focused on the missing syllables, although I was guessing more with hope than expectation, and at this point in the game I had no idea what else it could be. Another problem group, the blue one, did not aid me, including a word I had never heard in the context of DENTIST WORRIES, namely STONE. Apparently that’s another word for TARTARUS, so I don’t understand why both of those words are there. All in all, a bit unsatisfactory.

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Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Tuesday, November 12, Game 520)

  • YELLOW: COMPLAINT BELLY PAIN, CARP, CRAB, complaining
  • GREEN: VEGETABLE UNITS CLOVE, floret, spear, stem
  • BLUE: LAPTOP SPECS RAM, RESOLUTION, SPEED, MEMORY
  • PURPLE: FEATURES OF MADE JUSTICE Blindfold, robe, scales, sword

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 basic, yellow is slightly more challenging, blue is often quite challenging, and purple is usually very challenging.

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 off balance with 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.

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