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Hey, everyone! Welcome to the start of a new week. I hope you’re well rested and raring to go. I’m sure there won’t be anything of significance happening in the world to worry about over the next few days!
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, November 4, 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…
- SHELL
- VANITY
- OUTFIT
- ID
- WARDROBE
- CANT
- CONSOLE
- EGO
- STOCK
- CHARACTER
- BEING
- CHEST
- SELF
- PROVISION
- WERE
- FURNISH
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — kit out
- Green group — personhood
- Blue group — large household items
- Purple group — these will infuriate grammarians (as they did me)
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 — equip
- Green group — individuality
- Blue group — furniture
- Purple group — words with apostrophes removed
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 — equip (FURNISH, OUTFIT, PROVISION, STOCK)
- Green group — individuality (BEING, CHARACTER, EGO, SELF)
- Blue group — furniture (CHEST, CONSOLE, VANITY, WARDROBE)
- Purple group — words with apostrophes removed (CANT, ID, SHELL, WERE)
A silly error prevented me from getting a perfect game, but my winning streak is up to eight. Here’s how I fared:
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CANT was a dead giveaway for the purples, so my eyes darted around the grid to find three other words that would fit the bill and submitted them with gritted teeth. Since ID (“I’d” rather than the impulsive part of our psyche) was out of the equation, the greens were straightforward.
I could then see the blues, but accidentally guessed a group of CONSOLE, WARDROBE, VANITY and OUTFIT. Sigh. I corrected my error, then got the yellows for the win.
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’m trying to drink more water (I bought a smart water bottle to help with that). I’m also trying to avoid tea or coffee for the first couple of hours that I’m awake. As such, I’m looking elsewhere for something to kickstart my day, and a loud song that gets me moving seems to be doing the trick. Here’s a favorite one of those:
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