NYT Connections Today – Hints and Answers for Saturday, November 9 (Game #517)
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 #517) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- THRONE
- CUTTING
- GNARLY
- POWDER
- RADICAL
- BATH
- LICK
- CURRENT
- TWISTED
- ROOT
- REST
- BENT
- TRACK
- OBTAINED
- EXPONENT
- US
NYT Connections Today (Game #517) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some pointers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Crooked
- Vegetable: Just a little bit
- Blue: Mathematical terms
- Purple: First part of the words for a place where you do business!
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 #517) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: ACQUIRED
- GREEN: SMALLEST AMOUNT
- BLUE: ALGEBRA TERMS
- PURPLE: WORDS FOR ‘SPACE’ MEAN TOILET
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #517) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, game #517, are…
- YELLOW: ACQUIRED BENT, gnarled, twisted, warped
- GREEN: SMALLEST AMOUNT Lick, us, shred, trace
- BLUE: ALGEBRA TERMS EXPONENT, POWER, RADICAL, ROOT
- PURPLE: WORDS FOR ‘SPACE’ MEAN TOILET BATH, POWDER, REST, THRONE
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: Perfect
In Connections you sometimes need a little luck, just like in Wordle. Example: the way I solved the purple group today. I thought the connection was ‘words that go by the foot’, where REST, POWDER and BATH all seemed to fit roughly. It wasn’t a great connection, but I thought it was worth a try. For the fourth, I decided that THRONE might work – maybe FOOTTROE was a fancy word for a footrest that I hadn’t heard yet? Stupid, yes, but I tried it and was surprised and happy to see that it was correct. Well, sort of. The connection was actually WORDS FOR “SPACE” TO MEAN TOILET, funny enough. But they all count, right?
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Friday, November 8, game #516)
- YELLOW: ESCAPADE ANTIC, CAPER, EXPLOIT, STUNT
- GREEN: TYPES of pickles DILL, KOSHER, SOUR, SWEET
- BLUE: RISQUE MATURE, BLUE, SPICY, SUGGESTIVE
- PURPLE: CUT THE ___ CHEESE, ROPE, COVER, MUSTARD
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 a little harder, blue is often quite tough, and purple is usually very difficult.
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.
