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Hey, folks! I hope you’re having a fantastic weekend so far. Let’s make sure we keep your Connections streak intact. I’m very excited about today’s recommendation too. But first…
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, November 3, 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…
- STREET
- SENSE
- MOVING
- MONEY
- TENDER
- FEELING
- HEARING
- LISTENING
- PROCEEDING
- TOUCHING
- CHAIR
- INQUIRY
- SWEET
- HUNCH
- TRIAL
- IMPRESSION
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — sentimental or life-affirming
- Green group — inkling
- Blue group — justice for all
- Purple group — unlike this group most days
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 — heartwarming
- Green group — sneaking suspicion
- Blue group — legal session
- Purple group — easy ____
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 — heartwarming (MOVING, SWEET, TENDER, TOUCHING)
- Green group — sneaking suspicion (FEELING, HUNCH, IMPRESSION, SENSE)
- Blue group — legal session (HEARING, INQUIRY, PROCEEDING, TRIAL)
- Purple group — easy ____ (CHAIR, LISTENING, MONEY, STREET)
I got a perfect game to bring my streak up to seven straight wins. Here’s how I fared:
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Since we had SENSE on the grid, I deduced quickly that TOUCHING, LISTENING and FEELING were a red herring.
The blues jumped out at me immediately, and I got the greens quickly too. It took a moment to puzzle out the yellows, but after I figured that out, I submitted the purple group first. Just because.
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 Monday’s game if you need them.
P.S. Here’s a song by an artist who just popped up on my radar. I asked my smart speaker to play a certain song, then it autoplayed this one afterward. It grabbed my attention immediately.
I hadn’t heard of flowerovlove before Friday, but I’m quickly becoming a fan. She’ll be the soundtrack to my relaxing Sunday. I hope you enjoy this too:
And here’s another, just for kicks:
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