NYT Connections Today – Hints and Answers for Friday, November 15 (Game #523)
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 #523) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- PIPE
- SENTENCE
- JUG
- PASSAGE
- LEAK
- LETTER
- WASTE
- WHISTLE
- NICK
- TEAR
- RECORDER
- WORD
- HOLE
- SAND
- SENTENCE
- LEAKAGE
NYT Connections Today (Game #523) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some pointers for current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Unwanted opening
- Vegetable: Text construction
- Blue: Just press your lips together and blow
- Purple: Empty [phrase concerning duration]
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 #523) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: SAVING
- GREEN: ELEMENTS OF WRITING
- BLUE: INSTRUMENTS YOU BLOW INTO
- PURPLE: ___ OF TIME
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #523) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, game #523, are…
- YELLOW: SAVING CRACKS, HOLE, LEAK, LEAK
- GREEN: ELEMENTS OF WRITING LETTER, SENTENCE, SENTENCE, WORD
- BLUE: INSTRUMENTS YOU BLOW INTO CAN, PIPE, RECORDER, WHISTLE
- PURPLE: ___ OF TIME NICK, PASSAGE, SAND, TRASH
- My rating: Simple
- My score: Perfect
Sometimes a Connections group is so simple that you can’t believe this could possibly be the answer. Take Green Today – ELEMENTS OF WRITING. I saw LETTER, SENTENCE, SENTENCE and WORD very early on, but hovered my finger over the send button because it seemed too easy. Finally, I decided to give it a try – after all, I still had all four guesses wrong – and was more surprised when they turned out to be right than if they had been wrong. Yellow was about as easy and blue only slightly more so, meaning I didn’t have to worry about the more difficult purple group in blank format.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Thursday, November 14, game #522)
- YELLOW: EXPUSE DRAIN, EMPTY, EXHAUST, JUICE
- GREEN: PLAY MUSIC WITH PASSION GROOVE, JAM, ROCK, SHREDDING
- BLUE: WORDS ON A RESTAURANT RECEIPT SIGNATURE, TAX, TIP, TOTAL
- PURPLE: FORMS OF SUGAR CUBE, CORN, POWDER, SYRUP
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.
