NEW Connections Today — Hints and Answers for Thursday, November 28 (Game #536)

On November 28, 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 #536) – word of the day

NEW Connections tip for game 536 on a purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

Today’s NEW Connections word is…

QUACK
SWITCH OFF
THANKS
GIVES
FAT
TACO
BOLT
PRAISE
GREAT
CREDIT
CON
DOWN
CHEAT
SCARF
FAKE
RECOGNITION

NEW Connections today (game #536) – tip #1 – group tip

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

Yellow: Well done!
Green: Not what they seem
Blue: Devour
Purple: Black (everyday)

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 #536) – tip #2 – group answer

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

YELLOW: APPRECIATION
GREEN: FRAUD
BLUE: EAT GLASSY
PURPLE: ___ TUESDAY

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

NEW Connections today (game #536) – the answers

NYT Connections answers for game 536 on a purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today’s Connections, game #536, are…

YELLOW: APPRECIATION CREDIT, PRAISE, RECOGNITION, THANKS
GREEN: FRAUD CHEATING, BLIND, FAKE, QUACK
BLUE: EAT GLASSY BOLT, DOWN, GOBBLE, TOWEL
PURPLE: ___ TUESDAY FAT, GIVER, SUPER, TACO

My assessment: Easy
My score: Perfect

Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the US! And um, happy Black Friday Eve to everyone else. Inevitably, the NYT threw some misdirection on the web today, placing QUACK, GOBBLE, THANKS and GIVING as the first four words on the top row.

But of course this was a red herring. QUACK went with CHEAT, CON and FAKE for the green group (FRAUDSTER), while GOBBLE was grouped with BOLT, DOWN and SCARF for the timely EAT VORACIOUSLY (blue).

Yellow, as is usually the case, was even simpler – APPRECIATION was simply a bunch of synonyms including the aforementioned THANKS, which meant I didn’t have to solve the hardest purple group. This included GIVING, which formed a group of the glossy kind with FAT, SUPER and TACO. The connection was apparently ___ TUESDAY, but considering SUPER TUESDAY was the only one of the four I’ve heard of, there was no way I was ever going to get it.

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

Yesterday’s NEW Connections Answers (Wednesday, November 27, Game #535)

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

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.