NYT Connections Today – Hints and Answers for Wednesday, November 27 (Game #535)
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 #535) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- RUBBER
- BABY
- BUGGY
- BUMPER
- HOUSE
- MIRROR
- WRONG
- TRIBUTE
- SPOTTY
- PLANT
- PET
- WEDDING
- BOY
- GRILLE
- GLITCHY
- EDGE
NYT Connections Today (Game #535) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some pointers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Abort
- Vegetable: GEARS is another one
- Blue: Sometimes need care
- Purple: Empty [word for a musical group and other things]
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 #535) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: DOES NOT WORK RELIABLY
- GREEN: CAR PARTS
- BLUE: WHAT A SITTER CAN SIT
- PURPLE: ___ BAND
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #535) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, game #535, are…
- YELLOW: DOES NOT WORK RELIABLY BUGGY, UNROOMY, GLITCHY, SPOTTY
- GREEN: CAR PARTS BUMPER, GRILLE, MIRROR, RIM
- BLUE: WHAT A SITTER CAN SIT BABY, HOUSE, PET, PLANT
- PURPLE: ___ BAND BOY, RUBBER, TRIBUTE, WEDDING
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 3 mistakes
I came so close [makes gesture of roughly 1 inch space] only to fail again here, only to scramble home at the last gasp after realizing I was missing an obvious connection.
It had started well, with yellow – NOT RELIABLE – immediately standing out. I made a wrong guess on blue before discovering that WHAT A CHILD CAN SIT applied to BABY, HOUSE, PET, and PLANT. But there I was stuck.
I could see that MIRROR, GRILLE and BUMPER were all CAR PARTS, but it didn’t occur to me that RIM would be another. A wheel rim is part of a car, I guess, but doesn’t seem as integral as the others; There are rims on many things other than cars. So I went with RUBBER, thought about tires, and when that didn’t make sense I changed course and tried something with WEDDING, TRIBUTE and er MIRROR and BOY with the vague thought that it could be something like ‘Things where you make a speech would have left’, which was clearly a terrible gamble and clearly wrong. So I returned to cars and thought a little harder this time, at which point RIM seemed to fit the bill. And of course that happened, but I felt like a real fool.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, November 26, game #534)
- YELLOW: GOOD THINGS TO GET AT WORK BONUS, EQUITY, PROMOTION, INCREASE
- GREEN: ignore DISCOUNT, FORGET, IGNORE, OVERVIEW
- BLUE: TYPES OF CRACKERS ANIMAL, CLUB, GOLDFISH, RITZ
- PURPLE: IN “ELOISE” ELOISE, PLAZA, PUG, TURTLE
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.
