NYT Connections Today – Hints and Answers for Wednesday, November 6 (Game #514)
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 #514) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- STOP
- POEM
- DIFFERENT
- MESSAGE
- NEW
- NOVEL
- MEASURE
- FURNITURE
- PLAY
- TEXT
- AREA
- FILE
- TO AGREE
- ORIGINAL
- PAUSE
- TO WRITE
NYT Connections Today (Game #514) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some pointers for current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Or they can be on a VCR (if you’re old enough to remember that one)
- Vegetable: Not seen before
- Blue: Tell someone what you think
- Purple: Not all of them can walk, despite what they have in common
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 #514) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: DVR BUTTONS
- GREEN: GROUNDBREAKING
- BLUE: COMMUNICATE THROUGH WRITING
- PURPLE: THINGS WITH FEET
Okay, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #514) – The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game, game #514, are…
- YELLOW: DVR BUTTONS PAUSE, PLAY, RECORD, STOP
- GREEN: GROUNDBREAKING DIFFERENT, NEW, NEW, ORIGINAL
- BLUE: COMMUNICATE THROUGH WRITING CORRESPARE, MESSAGE, TEXT, WRITING
- PURPLE: THINGS WITH FEET TWOEPED, FURNITURE, POEM, MEASURING STICK
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: Perfect
I lost my Connections streak yesterday, so it was good to get back on track today. I was helped by some fairly simple ones for yellow and green. The first of these were DVR BUTTONS, although they could easily have been buttons on a VCR, DVD or stereo or whatever. The second was Groundbreaking, with answers in the categories DIFFERENT, NEW, NEW and ORIGINAL. I almost tripped over the last two, where POEM looked like it could possibly match MESSAGE and TEXT, but it made more sense to put those two with CORRESPOND and WRITING in the COMMUNICATE THROUGH WRITING form, so I didn’t have to use purple today unload.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, November 5, game #513)
- YELLOW: THINGS THAT ARE UNWORTHY CATERPILLAR, FLEECE, PEACH, PIPE CLEANER
- GREEN: THINGS WITH SHELLS GLASS, EGG, NUTS, TURTLE
- BLUE: NUMBERS IN “SHREK” DONKEY, DRAGON, OGRE, PRINCESS
- PURPLE: MAGIC ___ CARPET, KINGDOM, MARKER, MUSHROOM
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.
