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Hey, everyone! If it’s back to work or school for you today, welcome to the start of a new week. Otherwise, enjoy what’s left of a long weekend!
I didn’t sleep too well last week. Can’t imagine why, really. So, since I had no plans for Saturday and Sunday other than getting some extra work done, I tried to get more sleep. It worked a bit, according to my sleep tracker, but I still have quite a way to go to fully eliminate my sleep debt.
Anyway, today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, November 11, 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…
- CRUNCH
- SUBSTANCE
- DEMI
- SUE
- BIG
- THRUST
- SPORTS
- PUSH-UP
- MARS
- MEAT
- EARLY
- PAYDAY
- CORE
- DOVE
- LADY
- WIRELESS
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — sweet treats
- Green group — the general idea
- Blue group — important support workers
- Purple group — “blue” or “song” would fit in here
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group — chocolate bars
- Green group — gist
- Blue group — kinds of bras
- Purple group — _____ bird
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 — chocolate bars (CRUNCH, DOVE, MARS, PAYDAY)
- Green group — gist (CORE, MEAT, SUBSTANCE, THRUST)
- Blue group — kinds of bras (DEMI, PUSH-UP, SPORTS, WIRELESS)
- Purple group — _____ bird (BIG, EARLY, LADY, CLUE)
My latest streak is over after 14 wins. Here’s how I fared:
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟨🟨🟪
🟨🟪🟨🟨
🟨🟪🟪🟨
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I figured that CRUNCH, THRUST and PUSH-UP formed a red herring, largely because we had a group of exercises in a recent game. So I got the greens and blues without much of an issue.
I was stumped after that. I’ve never heard of a DOVE chocolate bar (nor have I had a CRUNCH or PAYDAY) or SUE Bird, but I still should have been able to make a more educated guess than the four random attempts I actually made.
I found it a little amusing that I used “bird” as an example of an in-game red herring clue yesterday, and here it’s one of the connections.
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. Last week, I received a pitch to write about some vinyl releases of video game soundtracks from the folks at iam8bit. One of those was from the Blueshift Big Band. It’s a collection of jazz interpretations of music from Super Mario Bros. games. It’s a pretty great record, and you don’t need to be a video game fan to appreciate the likes of this:
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