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 #513) - today's words
Today's NYT Connections words are…
- CATERPILLAR
- CLAM
- MUSHROOM
- KINGDOM
- TURTLE
- PEACH
- EGG
- PIPE CLEANER
- PRINCESS
- MARKER
- DONKEY
- CARPET
- NUT
- DRAGON
- FLEECE
- OGRE
NYT Connections today (game #513) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Fluffy things
- Green: Enclosed in a hard case
- Blue: Appear in a Mike Myers movie
- Purple: [Abracadabra!] blank
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 #513) - hint #2 - group answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: THINGS THAT ARE FUZZY
- GREEN: THINGS WITH SHELLS
- BLUE: FIGURES IN “SHREK”
- PURPLE: MAGIC ___
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #513) - the answers
The answers to today's Connections, game #513, are…
- YELLOW: THINGS THAT ARE FUZZY CATERPILLAR, FLEECE, PEACH, PIPE CLEANER
- GREEN: THINGS WITH SHELLS CLAM, EGG, NUT, TURTLE
- BLUE: FIGURES IN “SHREK” DONKEY, DRAGON, OGRE, PRINCESS
- PURPLE: MAGIC ___ CARPET, KINGDOM, MARKER, MUSHROOM
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: Fail
I am so, so annoyed at myself today. I failed today's game – my first loss for several weeks – but really shouldn't have done so. My mistake was to incorrectly identify the purple MAGIC___ group. Or rather, I correctly identified the connection – but not the words that went within it.
Early on I spotted MARKER, MUSHROOM, CARPET and KINGDOM, the four solutions, but also for some reason included FLEECE. I was thinking of the golden fleece, from Greek myth, but erroneously decided it was called magic not golden. That led me to three times guess groups that included FLEECE but not one of the other four, and lose most of my guesses. I then looked elsewhere and lost my final attempt on the THINGS THAT ARE FUZZY group.
The frustrating thing was that I had solved green (THINGS WITH SHELLS) and blue (FIGURES IN “SHREK” ) without too much trouble. If I'd merely have sense-checked that purple group more carefully I'm sure I'd have completed this. D'oh!
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Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Monday, 4 November, game #512)
- YELLOW: EQUIP FURNISH, OUTFIT, PROVISION, STOCK
- GREEN: INDIVIDUALITY BEING, CHARACTER, EGO, SELF
- BLUE: FURNITURE CHEST, CONSOLE, VANITY, WARDROBE
- PURPLE: WORDS WITH APOSTROPHES REMOVED CANT, ID, SHELL, WERE
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.
