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Welcome to the weekend, one and all! I hope you’ve got some fun plans in store. I’ll be spending time with my partner, catching up on some of the games I’ve been meaning to get to and finally trying out my new rowing machine.
I should also be able to finish setting up the discussion group for Connections and this column that I mentioned recently. More to come on that front soon!
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, November 2, 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…
- BOARD
- DROP
- PLANK
- SINK
- RANGE
- PANEL
- STUD
- BOAT
- CHANDELIER
- COUNTER
- CABINET
- CRUNCH
- COUNCIL
- MOUNTIAN
- CLIMBER
- FRIDGE
- HOOP
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — spotted in a key part of the house
- Green group — a bunch of decision makers
- Blue group — work it out
- Purple group — accessories that are often metallic
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group — seen in a kitchen
- Green group — group of advisors
- Blue group — core exercises
- Purple group — kinds of earrings
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 — seen in a kitchen (COUNTER, FRIDGE, RANGE, SINK)
- Green group — group of advisors (BOARD, CABINET, COUNCIL, PANEL)
- Blue group — core exercises (BOAT, CRUNCH, MOUNTAIN CLIMBER, PLANK)
- Purple group — kinds of earrings (CHANDELIER, DROP, HOOP, STUD)
No perfect game today but I’m up to six straight wins. Here’s how I fared:
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I got the green group easily enough, quickly followed by the yellows.
I knew that PLANK and CRUNCH are exercises. DROP and HOOP seemed like they could be as well, so I tried a guess of that to no avail. I then remembered that MOUNTAIN CLIMBER is an exercise too and by luck I guessed that BOAT would be the fourth word. That left the purple group for the win.
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 Sunday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I saw Bruce Springsteen on Halloween and had a great time. He and the E Street Band opened the show with this. Completely unexpected and so much fun:
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