NYT Connections Today – Hints and Answers for Sunday, November 24 (Game #532)
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers into different categories. It can be tricky, so read on if you need pointers.
What should you do when you’re done? Of course, play some word games. I also have daily Wordle Hints and Answers, Strands Hints and Answers and Quordle Hints and Answers articles if you need help with those too.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about today’s NYT Connections is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections Today (Game #532) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- LURCH
- TRANCE
- TREE
- THING
- TRAY
- REEL
- WEDNESDAY
- JUNGLE
- PITCH
- IDEA
- HIFT
- PERSON
- BLOND
- HOUSE
- ENVIRONMENT
- PLACE
NYT Connections Today (Game #532) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some pointers for current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Move from left to right
- Vegetable: Subject
- Blue: Hey DJ!
- Purple: [Residue of fire] empty
Need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four themed answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections Today (Game #532) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: CAREEN
- GREEN: WHAT AN INDEPENDENT CAN BE
- BLUE: ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC GENRES
- PURPLE: WORDS AFTER ‘ASH’
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #532) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, game #532, are…
- YELLOW: CAREEN HEAVE, LURCH, PITCH, REEL
- GREEN: WHAT AN INDEPENDENT CAN BE IDEA, PERSON, PLACE, THING
- BLUE: ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC GENRES ENVIRONMENT, HOUSE, JUNGLE, TRANCE
- PURPLE: WORDS AFTER ‘ASH’ BLOND, TRAY, TREE, WEDNESDAY
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: Failure
Sigh. My nascent streak is back to zero after just two wins, and today I don’t even have the excuse that it was a particularly difficult day. It wasn’t easy either, mind you, but I’d say this counted as a standard day, and not anything worse than that.
I also managed to solve blue, so the fact that I couldn’t get any of the others was frustrating. Blue was ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC GENRES with AMBIENT, HOUSE, JUNGLE and TRANCE, so my long-ago history in the clubs of London helped with this. But that was as far as it went.
I thought there was an Addams Family connection with WEDNESDAY, THING, and LURCH, but this was a classic NYT misdirection and took me two guesses trying to figure out what the fourth one might be (BOOM? PERSON? I couldn’t don’t remember the name well enough to know). I then wasted the other two on IDEA, PITCH, REEL as a sort of ‘business cards for an advertising agency’ type group, but here too I was on the wrong track. Yet tomorrow is a new day…
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Saturday, November 23, game #531)
- YELLOW: TELLING EVENTS ACCOUNT, CHRONICLE, DESCRIPTION, STORY
- GREEN: SECRET THROUGH TREES GUM, LATEX, RESIN, JUICE
- BLUE: THINGS ON STICKS BALL-IN-CUP, Corn Dog, Cotton Swab, LOLLI
- PURPLE: BLACK OR RED BALANCE, CHECKERS, LIcorice, ROULETTE
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of the New York Times’ increasingly popular word games. It challenges you to find groups of four items that have something in common, and each group has a different level of difficulty: green is easy, yellow is slightly harder, blue is often quite hard, and purple is usually very hard.
On the plus side, you technically don’t have to solve the last question because you can answer it by a process of elimination. Plus, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you some breathing room.
It’s a bit more complicated than something like Wordle, though, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For example, beware of homophones and other word games that can obscure the answers.
It is playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
