NYT Connections Today – Hints and Answers for Saturday, November 30 (Game #538)
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 #538) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- STONE
- PALM
- FAST
- MODERN
- NAIL
- SWING
- SCREW
- KNUCKLE
- BAG
- A.C.E
- CRANE
- Swipe
- CURVE
- JAZZ
- LIFT
- CRUSH
NYT Connections Today (Game #538) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some pointers for current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Shake your movements
- Vegetable: Take without permission
- Blue: Make it a great success
- Purple: From the hill
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 #538) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: DANCE STYLES
- GREEN: STEAL
- BLUE: PERFORM WELL
- PURPLE: ___BALL PLACES
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #538) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, game #538, are…
- YELLOW: DANCE STYLES JAZZ, MODERN, SWING, TAP
- GREEN: STEAL ELEVATOR, PALM, POCKET, SWIPE
- BLUE: PERFORM WELL ACE, CRUSH, NAIL, ROCK
- PURPLE: ___BALL PLACES CURVE, FAST, KNUCKLE, SCREW
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 2 mistakes
The days where I dissolve purple are not that frequent, so I was happy to be able to NAIL it today. Or maybe I should say: ACE it. Either CRUSH it or ROCK it. Except no, that group – PERFORMING WELL – was the blue one I solved by default, although I think I would have gotten that if I had to.
Instead, purple was ___BALL PITCHES, with CURVE, FAST, KNUCKLE, and SCREW, and despite previously complaining about how regularly the NYT puts baseball or other mostly American sports in Connections, I somehow got this one. Granted, it’s one of the easier purple groups; I made a few wrong guesses before I got it because SCREW didn’t occur to me, but the other three are well known and also appear in my favorite sport, cricket.
Yellow and Green, meanwhile, were both fairly easy, making this a fairly accessible Connections game overall.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Friday, November 29, game #537)
- YELLOW: ENTERPRISE ENTERPRISE, ENTERPRISE, PROJECT, ENTERPRISE
- GREEN: UNITS HERTZ, MOLE, SECOND, VOLT
- BLUE: MLB TEAM MEMBER NATIONAL, RAY, TIGER, GEMINI
- PURPLE: FIRST WORDS OF HBO SHOWS BOARD WALL, CURB, GAME, SILICONE
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.
