NYT Connections Today – Hints and Answers for Tuesday, November 12 (Game #520)
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 #520) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- RAM
- GARMENT
- CLOVE
- CRAB
- SWORD
- SPEED
- SCALES
- SPEAR
- ABDOMINAL PAIN
- BLINDPROOF
- STORAGE
- CARP
- STEM
- GRUGGING
- SOLUTION
- FLOWER
NYT Connections Today (Game #520) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some pointers for current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Express displeasure
- Vegetable: Pieces of a food type
- Blue: Battery life may be different
- Purple: Justitia accessories
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 #520) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: COMPLAINT
- GREEN: VEGETABLE UNITS
- BLUE: LAPTOP SPECS
- PURPLE: CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PERSONALIZED RIGHT
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #520) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, game #520, are…
- YELLOW: COMPLAINT stomach ache, carp, crab, grumble
- GREEN: VEGETABLE UNITS cloves, flower, spear, stem
- BLUE: LAPTOP SPECS RAM, RESOLUTION, SPEED, STORAGE
- PURPLE: CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PERSONALIZED RIGHT BLINDFOLD, ROBE, SCALES, SWORD
- My rating: Simple
- My score: 1 mistake
I like the idea that PLANT UNITS are something like LAPTOP SPECS are. Maybe they should have Top Trumps cards for them or something. But anyway, that was probably the hardest of the three groups I solved today, with it taking a while for my brain to realize that clove, flower, spear, and stem were all examples. While I had no problem discovering RAM, RESOLUTION, SPEED, and STORAGE, probably because I’m a nerd who has spent my entire life behind a laptop.
Honestly, I don’t know if I would have solved the purple group if it wasn’t standard. FEATURES OF JUSTICE PERSONIFIED made sense once I saw it, but it’s a relatively obscure reference unless you work in the legal profession or spend a lot of time looking at courthouses, right?
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Monday, November 11, game #519)
- 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
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.
