Today’s tips and answers NYT Connections, Thursday, November 20

Need a tip for today’s Connections on Thursday, November 20? You may be facing a hard challenge, but aid has arrived. It’s a wonderful feeling when your brain just instantly puts words together in Connections, but it doesn’t happen every day.

If you need support to get to the finish line today, look no further than this handy guide to Connections.

In this guide:

Here are 16 connection words for today:

How to play Connections

Connections is one of the most popular (and challenging) daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owner of Wordle). The goal of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, with each group of four words having a common theme.

For example, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter”, and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Let’s take another example: “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go” and “Stick” are words that usually appear right before the word “Figure”.

Your task is to guess what themes connect different words – but be careful, because in most cases there are misleading connections that are only intended to confuse you! To win the game you must find all four connections without making 4 mistakes. On the fourth mistake, the game ends and the answer is revealed automatically.

Each of the four groups in the daily Connection puzzle is also assigned a different color to represent how effortless or hard it is to find the Connection. These colors are: yellow (easiest), green (effortless), blue (medium), and purple (hardest).

Click here to play today’s Connections puzzle!

Connection tip for Thursday, November 20

Here are today’s Connections tips:

• Yellow: When two materials become one.
• Green: This topic is about “touch”.
• Blue: As can be found in your mouth.
• Purple: Have you heard any similarities?
• Bonus tip 1: Every motif except yellow contains a four-letter word.
• Bonus tip 2: Enamel and plaster belong to different groups.

If you need additional aid, click on the spoiler text below to view one word belonging to each group:

• Yellow: Plaster
• Green: View
• Blue: Enamel
• Purple: Essay

Spoiler alert! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!

What are today’s Connections groups like?

If you need even more guidance to solve today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four correct Connection groups – the themes that connect each set of four words in the Connections grid together.

Here are today’s Connections groups:

• yellow: Adhere
• green: Graze
• blue: Tooth Parts
• purple: Words that sound like two letters

Now that you know the reasoning behind the different connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check out the full answer below.

Spoiler alert! The answer to today’s Connections offer is before us!

What’s today’s answer on Connections?

Here is the answer to today’s Connection puzzle, which will take place on Thursday, November 20:

• Yellow: Glue (fix, paste, plaster, glue)
• Green: Grazing (brush, kiss, stroke, stroke)
• Blue: Tooth parts (crown, enamel, pulp, root)
• Purple: Words that sound like two letters (Any, Arty, Decay, Esej)

I would never have guessed that there was such a purple theme today. I really like its originality, but I just didn’t notice the “sounds like two letters” thing. I’m also a little confused about “decomposition”, which I would pronounce as “duh-kay” and not “dee-kay”.

Fortunately, I did better with the green words. It took me a minute to sort out the yellow (I wasn’t sure if “plaster” should go there because I was thinking about plastering the wall more than gluing two things together) and eventually found the blue too.

I didn’t immediately think of teeth, but the word “enamel” certainly helped!

Congratulations if you answered today’s Connections question correctly, with or without the aid of our helpful tips above! And if you didn’t succeed today, don’t worry – a recent Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!