Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the clever word game from the New York Times that challenges you to group answers into different categories. This can be difficult, so read on if you need tips on connections.
SPOILER WARNING: The information on NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (game #903) – words of the day
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- COCKATIELLE
- LEMON
- HOOK
- SWALLOW
- SPARROW
- UNREAD
- TURKEY
- STAY
- MISS
- BEAR
- CAMEROON
- MONEY
- Denunciation
- STOMACH
- BUSH
- LUFFY
NYT Connections today (game #903) – clue #1 – group clues
What are the clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Support
- GREEN: Miserable failure
- BLUE: Skull and crossbones characters
- PURPLE: It looks colorful
Need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four themed answers are for today’s NYT Connections riddles…
NYT Connections today (game #903) – clue #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: TOLERATE
- GREEN: flop
- BLUE: FICTIONAL PIRATES
- PURPLE: END IN COLOR HOMOPHONES
That’s right, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #903) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #903 are…
- YELLOW: TOLERATE BEAR, STAND, STOMACH, SWALLOW
- GREEN: flop BUST, LEMON, MISS, Türkiye
- BLUE: FICTIONAL PIRATES HOOK, LUFFY, SILVER, SPARROW
- PURPLE: END IN COLOR HOMOPHONES CAMEROON, COCKATIEL, UNREAD, Denunciation
- My rating: Hard
- My rating: 2 errors
I’ve been pretty good at getting purple groups recently, but I was completely blind to today’s quartet – WHISTLEBLEW’s weird past should have tipped me off. Well done if you saw it.
My first mistake today was the obvious one of thinking we had a bird collection in COCKATIEL, TURKEY, SPARROW and SWALLOW. Sometimes the obvious is true, sometimes it’s far from it.
Then I worked my way into FICTIONAL PIRATES, although my first attempt included CAMEROON instead of HOOK (I thought maybe it was about different breeds of animals rather than guys wandering around with parrots on their shoulders).
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Saturday, November 29, match #902)
- YELLOW: ABDOMINAL AREA Heart, midsection, torso, trunk
- GREEN: REPLACEMENT SAFEGUARD, COVERAGE, RELIEF, SUBSTITUTE
- BLUE: STAPLES PARK BENCH, PIGEON, STATUE, TREE
- PURPLE: BLACKJACK TERMS BUST, HIT, SPLIT, STAND
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four elements that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow is a little more difficult, blue is often quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you technically don’t need to solve the final question, as you will be able to answer it through a process of elimination. Additionally, you can make up to four mistakes, giving you some breathing room.
However, it’s a bit more complex than something like Wordle, and the game provides plenty of opportunities to trip you up with tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other puns that could obscure the answers.
It is playable for free via the NYT Games website on computer or mobile.
