NYT Connections Today – Hints and Answers for Monday, November 25 (Game #533)
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 #533) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- LIGHT
- SCORE
- COUNTRY
- SEA
- HOST
- BOW
- WIN
- YANG
- ANCHOR
- MALE
- HERD
- DECK
- EXTENDED
- BRIDGE
- EARN
- CROWD
NYT Connections Today (Game #533) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some pointers for current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: To get
- Vegetable: Lots of people
- Blue: STERN could be another one
- Purple: Confucius would have received this
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 #533) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: REACH
- BLUE: PARTS OF A SHIP
- GREEN: LARGE GROUP
- PURPLE: ASSOCIATED PRINCIPLES IN CHINESE PHILOSOPHY
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #533) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, game #533, are…
- 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
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 1 mistake
Does it matter how you beat Connections, as long as you do? Probably not, but it’s more satisfying to get the answer right because you know what it is than because you got lucky. That happened to me today with the purple group, ASSOCIATED PRINCIPLES IN CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, and it’s a good thing it did.
I had solved blue (PARTS OF A SHIP), which was remarkably easy for that color, and yellow (ATTAIN), but had already wasted one guess on what turned out to be the green group, BIG GROUP. For some reason I had put DECK with CROWD, FLOCK and HOST, when the final answer was SEA, and I hadn’t yet realized what the connection was here outside of ‘groups with many things’, and thought DECK was in there as in ‘pack of cards’. Anyway, DECK was now out of the running as it showed up in blue, so I really should have seen the green connection and moved on.
Instead, once I was burned, I looked at the other words and decided that perhaps they were part of some “opposite” compound: YANG (and yin), MALE (and female), LIGHT (and dark). I wasn’t sure what EXPANSIVE was the opposite of (narrow perhaps?), but decided to include it anyway and it revealed the purple group. Great! Only I had clearly misunderstood the connection. I guess they all count, but…
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Sunday, November 24, game #532)
- 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
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.
