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Hey, there! This will already be the last work or school day of the week for many people ahead of a travel day tomorrow. In any case, I hope your week’s off to a terrific start.
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, November 26, are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT website or Games app.
You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.
There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.
Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.
If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.
If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.
Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my hints for each grid via Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.
What Are Today’s Connections Hints?
Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.
Today’s 16 words are…
- PLAZA
- OVERLOOK
- BONUS
- DISCOUNT
- CLUB
- PROMOTION
- RITZ
- ANIMAL
- RAISE
- TURTLE
- GOLDFISH
- FORGET
- PUG
- IGNORE
- EQUITY
- ELOISE
And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:
- Yellow group — you probably won’t mind these being directed your way at the office
- Green group — dismiss
- Blue group — savory snacks
- Purple group — linked to books in which the main character lives in a “room on the tippy-top floor” of a New York City hotel
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s Connections groups are…
- Yellow group — good things to get at work
- Green group — disregard
- Blue group — kinds of crackers
- Purple group — featured in Eloise
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections answers are…
- Yellow group — good things to get at work (BONUS, EQUITY, PROMOTION, RAISE)
- Green group — disregard (DISCOUNT, FORGET, IGNORE, OVERLOOK)
- Blue group — kinds of crackers (ANIMAL, CLUB, GOLDFISH, RITZ)
- Purple group — featured in Eloise (ELOISE, PLAZA, PUG, TURTLE)
I got a little lucky with a 50/50 shot on my last life to extend my streak to five wins. Here’s how I fared:
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It probably says a lot about me that the first thing I thought of when I saw PLAZA was Die Hard (as in Nakatomi Plaza) and The Shining for OVERLOOK (the hotel where the film is set). RITZ is a hotel name too, but I didn’t see a fourth word that quite fit.
Nonetheless, I got the yellows first. Easy enough. OVERLOOK made sense with the rest of the greens, so I got those next.
I thought that TURTLE, GOLDFISH, RITZ and ANIMAL might make up a group of crackers as the blues, so I went with the other four words. That left me one away from a group. I swapped out CLUB for RITZ, but I was still one away. Same thing with ANIMAL. Darn.
I was confident that GOLDFISH had to be a cracker, so I tried TURTLE, and that fit the bill. The blues were left for the win.
I am unfamiliar with CLUB crackers. I am also sure that I have never in my life heard of the ELOISE series of kids books. I would have had no chance with that group if I didn’t have a solid idea about the crackers. And, yes, I did have to use Google for a clue that made sense for the purples.
That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Wednesday’s game if you need them.
P.S. Let’s go with a pair of tracks from a Welsh band that had a couple of hits in the mid-2000s. Every so often, “Monster” and its incredibly hooky chorus will get lodged in my brain and stay there for weeks on end. Follow-up single “Raoul” is a fun one too:
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