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Hey, there! Welcome to the start of what will be a very short week for many of you. It’s just a regular work week for me, except that I’ll probably be writing about a bunch of Black Friday deals in the coming days at my other main gig.
For no real reason, I’m going to let you in on a little personal secret. I’ve been using computers since I was a small child, but I never learned to touch type. I did try some touch type training programs, but it never clicked for me.
So, instead, I end up looking down at my keyboard a lot. I instinctively know where all the keys are, but I still need that mental reassurance that I’m hitting the correct ones, more or less.
This is horribly inefficient and leads to me making many typos (I made four in this sentence alone). But it’s what I’m used to and I’m comfortable with my typing style.
My point is, you don’t have to do things exactly the same way as others to get the job done. I hold pens in a weird way too!
Anyway! Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, November 25, are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT website or Games app.
You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.
There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.
Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.
If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.
If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.
Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my hints for each grid via Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.
What Are Today’s Connections Hints?
Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.
Today’s 16 words are…
- LIGHT
- SCORE
- LAND
- SEA
- HOST
- BOW
- WIN
- YANG
- ANCHOR
- MASCULINE
- FLOCK
- DECK
- EXPANSIVE
- BRIDGE
- EARN
- CROWD
And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:
- Yellow group — accomplish or obtain something
- Green group — a whole lot of ’em
- Blue group — spotted by ocean eyes
- Purple group — linked ideas in an Eastern school of thought
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s Connections groups are…
- Yellow group — attain
- Green group — large group
- Blue group — parts of a ship
- Purple group — associated principles in Chinese philosophy
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections answers are…
- Yellow group — attain (EARN, LAND, SCORE, WIN)
- Green group — large group (CROWD, FLOCK, HOST, SEA)
- Blue group — parts of a ship (ANCHOR, BOW, BRIDGE, DECK)
- Purple group — associated principles in Chinese philosophy (EXPANSIVE, LIGHT, MASCULINE, YANG)
I didn’t have too much trouble today, but I didn’t get a perfect game, unfortunately. I extended my win streak to four. Here’s how I fared:
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I got the blues immediately, but ran into a little trouble with a guess of HOST, SCORE, FLOCK and CROWD. SEA was also an option, and SCORE felt like the odd one out, so that swap gave me the greens.
The yellows then stood out to me on the half-grid, but I submitted the purple group first, just because I could. I would not have stood a chance at figuring that connection out.
That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Tuesday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I was very happy to see a new Franz Ferdinand video pop up in my YouTube recommendations a few days ago. Such an excellent band.
I’m seeing them for perhaps the sixth or seventh time (festivals included) this spring and I’m really looking forward to it. Their shows are always energetic and they’re a whole lot of fun.
The song isn’t quite as catchy as “Take Me Out,” “Michael” or my favorite of theirs “Do You Want To?,” but I like it very much all the same:
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