NEW Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Sunday, November 24 (Game #532)

On November 24, 2024By Littum

Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers into different categories. It can be difficult, so read on if you need clues.

What are you going to do when you’re done? Why, play some more puns of course. I also have Daily Wordle Tips and Answers, Strands Tips and Answers, and Quordle Tips and Answers articles if you need help with those as well.

SPOILER ALERT: Today’s NYT Connections information is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.

Your Connections expert

Marc McLaren

NEW Connections today (game #532) – word of the day

NEW Connections tip for game 532 on a purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

Today’s NEW Connections word is…

LURCH
TRANCE
WOOD
THING
TRAY
COIL
WEDNESDAY
JUNGLE
PITCH
IDEA
HEAVE
PERSON
BLONDE
HOUSE
AMBIENT
PLACE

NEW Connections today (game #532) – tip #1 – group tip

What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?

Yellow: Move from side to side
Green: Subject
Blue: Hey DJ!
Purple: (residue of fire) 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…

NEW Connections today (game #532) – tip #2 – group answer

What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?

YELLOW: THE CAREEN
GREEN: WHAT A COMPOSITION CAN BE
BLUE: ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC GENRE
PURPLE: WORDS AFTER “ASHES”

Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NEW Connections today (game #532) – the answers

NYT Connections answers for game 532 on a purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today’s Connections, game #532, are…

YELLOW: THE CARE HEAVE, LURCH, PITCH, REL
GREEN: WHAT A COMPOSITION CAN BE IDEA, PERSON, PLACE, THING
BLUE: ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC GENRE AMBIENT, HOUSE, JUNGLE, TRANCE
PURPLE: WORDS AFTER “ASHES” BLOND, HILL, WOOD, WEDNESDAY

My rating: Moderate
My score: Fail

Sigh. My fledgling streak is back to zero again after just two wins and today I don’t even have the excuse that it was a particularly difficult day. It wasn’t easy either, but I’d say this counts as a standard day, rather than anything worse than that.

I also managed to solve blue so not being able to get any of the others was frustrating. Blue was ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC GENRE with AMBIENT, HOUSE, JUNGLE and TRANCE so my long gone past in London clubs helped here. But that was as far as it went.

I thought there was an Addams Family connection with WEDNESDAY, THING and LURCH, but this was a classic NYT misdirection and cost me two guesses as I tried to think of what the fourth might be (TREE? PERSON? I remembered not wise enough to know). Then I wasted the other two on IDEA, PITCH, REEL as a sort of ‘calling card for an ad agency’ type, but was also on the wrong track here. But tomorrow is a new day…

How did you do today? Email me and let me know.

Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Saturday, November 23rd, Game #531)

YELLOW: NARRATIVE OF EVENTS ACCOUNT, CHRONICLE, DESCRIPTION, HISTORY
GREEN: SECRET OF TREES RUBBER, LATEX, RESIN, SAP
BLUE: THINGS ON SHOCK BALL-IN-CUP, CORN DOG, COTTON WIND, LOLLIPOP
PURPLE: BLACK OR RED BALANCE, BRUSH, LIQUORICE, ROULETTE

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 degree of difficulty: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough, and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you technically don’t need to solve the last one, as you’ll be able to answer it by a process of elimination. Also, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It’s a bit more involved than something like Wordle, though, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to let you beat yourself up with tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other puns that can hide the answers.

It can be played for free via NYT Games website on desktop or mobile.