A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, November 29 (game #902).
Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.
What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (game #903) - today's words
Today's NYT Connections words are…
- COCKATIEL
- LEMON
- HOOK
- SWALLOW
- SPARROW
- UNREAD
- TURKEY
- STAND
- MISS
- BEAR
- CAMEROON
- SILVER
- WHISTLEBLEW
- STOMACH
- BUST
- LUFFY
NYT Connections today (game #903) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Put up with
- GREEN: Dismal failure
- BLUE: Skull and crossbones characters
- PURPLE: Sounds colorful
Need more clues?
We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections today (game #903) - hint #2 - group answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: TOLERATE
- GREEN: FLOP
- BLUE: FICTIONAL PIRATES
- PURPLE: ENDING IN COLOR HOMOPHONES
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #903) - the answers
The answers to today's Connections, game #903, are…
- YELLOW: TOLERATE BEAR, STAND, STOMACH, SWALLOW
- GREEN: FLOP BUST, LEMON, MISS, TURKEY
- BLUE: FICTIONAL PIRATES HOOK, LUFFY, SILVER, SPARROW
- PURPLE: ENDING IN COLOR HOMOPHONES CAMEROON, COCKATIEL, UNREAD, WHISTLEBLEW
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 2 mistakes
I've been pretty good at getting purple groups recently, but I was utterly blind to today’s quartet – the oddly past tense WHISTLEBLEW should have tipped me off. Kudos if you saw it.
My first mistake today was the obvious one of thinking we had a collection of birds in COCKATIEL, TURKEY, SPARROW and SWALLOW. Sometimes the obvious is right – sometimes it’s way off.
Next I somehow fluked my way to FICTIONAL PIRATES, although my first attempt included CAMEROON instead of HOOK (I thought they might be different breeds of an animal rather than fellas who wander around with parrots on their shoulders).
Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Saturday, November 29, game #902)
- YELLOW: ABDOMINAL AREA CORE, MIDSECTION, TORSO, TRUNK
- GREEN: REPLACEMENT BACKUP, COVER, RELIEF, SUBSTITUTE
- BLUE: PARK STAPLES BENCH, PIGEON, STATUE, TREE
- PURPLE: BLACKJACK TERMS BUST, HIT, SPLIT, STAND
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
