NYT Connections Today – Hints and Answers for Tuesday, November 26 (Game #534)
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 #534) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- SQUARE
- OVERVIEW
- BONUS
- DISCOUNT
- CLUB
- PROMOTION
- RITZ
- ANIMAL
- SALARY INCREASE
- TURTLE
- GOLDFISH
- FORGET
- PUG
- TO IGNORE
- EQUITY
- ELOIS
NYT Connections Today (Game #534) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some pointers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Better than getting fired
- Vegetable: Don’t think about it
- Blue: Types of thin, fried foods
- Purple: Appear in a classic book
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 #534) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: GOOD THINGS TO GET AT WORK
- GREEN: ignore
- BLUE: TYPES OF CRACKERS
- PURPLE: IN “ELOISE”
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #534) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, game #534, are…
- YELLOW: GOOD THINGS TO GET AT WORK BONUS, EQUITY, PROMOTION, INCREASE
- GREEN: ignore DISCOUNT, FORGET, IGNORE, OVERVIEW
- BLUE: TYPES OF CRACKERS ANIMAL, CLUB, GOLDFISH, RITZ
- PURPLE: IN “ELOISE” ELOISE, PLAZA, PUG, TURTLE
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: Perfect
Before I started writing this today, I had no idea who or what ELOISE was. Nothing about that had crossed my cultural path at all, to the extent that when the answer showed up it wasn’t one of those “Oh, of course” moments, or even an “Oh, I’ve vaguely heard of that.” situations, but purely one of ‘Eh, what is that?’. I now know it was an illustrated book from the 1950s, but I’m completely baffled as to why it’s an answer here. It doesn’t even seem that famous: the entire first page of Google is about a song by that name or a movie from 2007. I can only imagine it was a favorite of the NYT puzzlers. Very strange.
Anyway, that was purple, and the good news for me was that it didn’t affect my playing at all, as I was able to solve the three easier groups instead. I did them in order of difficulty, starting with yellow (GOOD THINGS TO GET WORK) and green (IGNORE), both of which were very easy, before I (inevitably) got stuck on the last groups. I ended up putting RITZ and GOLDFISH together as TYPES OF CRACKERS, and while I wasn’t sure about CLUB or ANIMAL, I had a hunch that they were right – a hunch of the kind I didn’t get about ELOISE, because it simply never was happened. fired one of my neurons at some point in the past. But now the time has come, so I think that’s positive.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Monday, November 25, game #533)
- YELLOW: REACH EARN, LAND, SCORE, WIN
- GREEN: LARGE GROUP CROWD, COLD, HOST, SEA
- BLUE: PARTS OF A SHIP ANCHOR, BOW, BRIDGE, DECK
- PURPLE: ASSOCIATED PRINCIPLES IN CHINESE PHILOSOPHY EXPANSIVE, LIGHT, MASCULINE, YANG
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.
