NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Tuesday, November 12 (game #520)
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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 clues.
What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too.
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 #520) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- RAM
- ROBE
- CLOVE
- CRAB
- SWORD
- SPEED
- SCALES
- SPEAR
- BELLYACHE
- BLINDFOLD
- STORAGE
- CARP
- STALK
- GRUMBLE
- RESOLUTION
- FLORET
NYT Connections today (game #520) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Express displeasure
- Green: Bits of a food type
- Blue: Battery life could be another
- Purple: Justitia accessories
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 #520) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: COMPLAIN
- GREEN: VEGETABLE UNITS
- BLUE: LAPTOP SPECS
- PURPLE: FEATURES OF JUSTICE PERSONIFIED
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #520) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #520, are…
- YELLOW: COMPLAIN BELLYACHE, CARP, CRAB, GRUMBLE
- GREEN: VEGETABLE UNITS CLOVE, FLORET, SPEAR, STALK
- BLUE: LAPTOP SPECS RAM, RESOLUTION, SPEED, STORAGE
- PURPLE: FEATURES OF JUSTICE PERSONIFIED BLINDFOLD, ROBE, SCALES, SWORD
- My rating: Easy
- My score: 1 mistake
I love the idea of VEGETABLE UNITS being a thing in the way that LAPTOP SPECS are. Maybe they should have Top Trumps cards for them or something. But anyway, that was probably the hardest of the three groups that I solved today, with my brain taking a while to realize that CLOVE, FLORET, SPEAR and STALK were all examples. Whereas I had no problem spotting RAM, RESOLUTION, SPEED and STORAGE, probably because I’m a nerd who’s spent his whole life sat in front of a laptop.
I don’t know that I would have solved the purple group if not by default, frankly. FEATURES OF JUSTICE PERSONIFIED made sense once I saw it, but it’s a relatively obscure reference unless you work in the legal profession or spend a lot of time looking at court buildings, right?
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Monday, 11 November, game #519)
- YELLOW: ATTAIN EARN, LAND, SCORE, WIN
- GREEN: LARGE GROUP CROWD, FLOCK, HOST, SEA
- BLUE: PARTS OF A SHIP ANCHOR, BOW, BRIDGE, DECK
- PURPLE: ASSOCIATED PRINCIPLES IN CHINESE PHILOSOPHY EXPANSIVE, LIGHT, MASCULINE, YANG
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.
