NYT Connections Today – Hints and Answers for Monday, November 11 (Game #519)
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 #519) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- CRUNCH
- SUBSTANCE
- DEMI
- BIG
- BUTT
- SPORT
- MARS
- MEAT
- EARLY
- CORE
- PIGEON
- LADY
- SUE
- PUSH UP
- PAYMENT DAY
- WIRELESS
NYT Connections Today (Game #519) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some pointers for current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Favorites of sweets
- Vegetable: Central point
- Blue: Gives you support (possibly!)
- Purple: Empty [avian]
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 #519) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: CHOCOLATE BARS
- GREEN: YEAST
- BLUE: TYPES OF BRAS
- PURPLE: ___ BIRD
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #519) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, game #519, are…
- YELLOW: CHOCOLATE BARS CRUNCH, DOVE, MARS, PAYMENT DAY
- GREEN: YEAST CORE, FLESH, DUST, STRUGGLE
- BLUE: TYPES OF BRAS DEMI, PUSH-UP, SPORTS, WIRELESS
- PURPLE: ___ BIRD BIG, EARLY, LADY, SUE
- My rating: Difficult
- My score: 3 mistakes
Phew, this was a tough one! It took me all three extra guesses to solve it, and there was a lot of guesswork involved in my answers as well. I could have easily lost my streak here.
The problem was that all four groups were very heavy; there doesn’t seem to be any difficulty at all. Perhaps yellow, supposedly the easiest of the four, is simple for some people – but not for me. I am based in the UK where PAYDAY, CRUNCH and DOVE are not famous CHOCOLATE BARS. Fortunately, I knew that PAYDAY and DOVE were American brands, and CRUNCH was an obvious choice to go with those two and MARS.
I also solved blue, KIND OF BRAS, thanks to a gamble in the dark; I’m (obviously) no expert, but had heard of PUSH-UP, WIRELESS and SPORTS – but not DEMI. But that’s what the latter sounded like power it fit, so for lack of other ideas I went with it and got it right.
Purple was a monster. Eventually I realized that LADY and BIG could both precede BIRD and then be noticed EARLY as well. But I didn’t have a fourth. In the end, I guessed SUE simply because it seemed more likely than the other words I had left: FLESH, STRUGGLE, CORE, and SUBSTANCE. Apparently SUE BIRD is/was an American basketball player…
So today is a very US-centric game, and not particularly satisfying for me. But thanks to a lot of luck I ended up there.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Sunday, November 10, game #518)
- YELLOW: Barrel-shaped container CASK, CYLINDER, DRUM, TANK
- GREEN: GUIDE PILOT, SHEPHERD, STEERING, USHER
- BLUE: NFL TEAM MEMBER COWBOY, JET, RAM, RAVEN
- PURPLE: THINGS THAT SWING GOLFER, CANDLE, SALOON DOORS, SWING
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.
