NEW Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Wednesday, November 27 (Game #535)

On November 27, 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 #535) – word of the day

NEW Connections tip for game 535 on a purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

Today’s NEW Connections word is…

RUBBER
BABY
BUGGY
BUMPER
HOUSE
MIRROR
ERATIC
TRIBUTE
SPOTTY
PLANT
PET
WEDDING
BOY
GRILL
GLITCHY
EDGE

NEW Connections today (game #535) – tip #1 – group tip

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

Yellow: Decomposition
Green: GEARS is another
Blue: Needs to fit sometimes
Purple: Blank (words for a music group and other things)

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 #535) – tip #2 – group answer

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

YELLOW: NOT WORKING RELIABLE
GREEN: CAR PARTS
BLUE: WHAT A SITTER CAN SIT
PURPLE: ___ BAND

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

NEW Connections today (game #535) – the answers

NYT Connections answers for game 535 on a purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today’s Connections, game #535, are…

YELLOW: NOT WORKING RELIABLE BUGGY, URATIC, GLITCHY, SPOTTED
GREEN: CAR PARTS BUMPER, GRILL, MIRROR, RIMS
BLUE: WHAT A SITTER CAN SIT BABY, HOUSE, PET, PLANT
PURPLE: ___ BAND BOY, RUBBER, TRIBUTE, WEDDING

My assessment: Moderate
My score: 3 errors

I came so close (gesture about 1 inch space) to failing again here, only to scrape home at the last gasp after the realization that I was missing an obvious connection.

Things had started well and yellow – NOT WORKING RELIABLE – was on immediately. I made a wrong guess on blue before realizing that WHAT A SITTER CAN SIT applied to BABY, HOUSE, PET and PLANT. But there I stopped.

I could see that the MIRRORS, GRILL and BUMPERS were all CAR PARTS, but it didn’t occur to me that the RIMS would be someone else. A rim is a part of a car, but it doesn’t seem as integrated as the others; there are rims on many things other than cars. So I went with RUBBER and thought tires and when that was wrong I changed the tip and tried something with WEDDING, HYLDEST and er MIRROR and BOY with the vague idea that it might be something like ‘Things you would keep a speech to’, which was clearly a terrible guess and obviously wrong. So I returned to cars and this time I thought a little harder, at which point RIM seemed like it would fit. And of course it did, but I felt like a real fool.

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

Yesterday’s NEW Connections Answers (Tuesday, November 26, Game #534)

YELLOW: GOOD THINGS TO GET AT WORK BONUS, EQUITY, CONNECTION, RAISE
GREEN: CONNECTS DISCOUNT, FORGET, IGNORE, OVERLOOK
BLUE: KIND OF CRACKERS ANIMAL, CLUB, GOLDFISH, RITZ
PURPLE: IN “ELOISE” ELOISE, PLAZA, PUG, TURTLE

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 little more involved than something like Wordle, though, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to let you play 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.