Today’s NEW ‘Connections’ tip and answer for Thursday, November 14 (#522)

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Hey guys! Happy Thursday. Hopefully things have gone as smoothly as possible for you so far this week.

So far I’ve been slowly setting up a Discord server for Connections fans to meet and chat about the game and this column – and let me know when I make a mistake or an obvious typo – as well as anything else within reason. I will soon start inviting those of you who said you were interested to join. It should be fun!

Today’s NEW Connections advice and answers for Thursday 14 November will come straight up.

How Connections plays

Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on NEW website or game app.

You are presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by finding out the connections between them. The groups can be things like clickable items, names of research study participants, or words with a body part in front.

There is only one solution to each puzzle and you have to be careful when it comes to words that can fit into more than one category. You can mix up the words to perhaps help you see connections between them.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the hardest. The purple group often involves puns.

Choose four words that you think fit together and press send. If you guess and you’re wrong, you lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you may see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you still need to figure out which one to swap.

If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with some tips and if you’re really struggling, today’s is Connections answer. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chat.

If you have one NEW Free access or Spil subscription you can access Connections file. This includes all previous games of Connectionsso you can go back and play any of them you missed.

Apart from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my tips for each grid via Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.

What’s today’s hookup tip?

Roll slowly! Right after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I will reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you what words are included in them.

Today’s 16 words are…

  • CEREAL
  • DRAIN
  • TOTAL
  • DICE
  • SYRUP
  • QUIET
  • SIGNATURE
  • SAP
  • JAM
  • TAX
  • POWDER
  • CUT
  • EMPTY
  • GROOVE
  • TIP
  • EXHAUST

And the tips for today’s groups are:

  • Yellow group — reduces over time
  • Green group — get on stage or in the studio
  • Blue group — often seen after a tasty treat
  • Purple group – so cute, The Archies sang about it twice

What are today’s connection groups?

Do you need extra help?

Be warned: we’re starting to come in spoiler territory.

Today’s groups are…

  • Yellow group — exhausted
  • Green group — play music with passion
  • Blue group — words on a restaurant receipt
  • Purple group — forms of sugar

What are today’s connections answers?

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll down the page any further until you’re ready to find out about today Connections answer.

This is your last warning!

Today’s Connections the answers are…

  • Yellow group — exhausted (DRAIN, EMPTY, EXHAUST, SAP)
  • Green group — play music with passion (GROOVE, JAM, ROCK, SHRED)
  • Blue group — words on a restaurant receipt (SIGNATURE, TAX, TIP, TOTAL)
  • Purple group — forms of sugar (CUBE, GRAIN, POWDER, SYRUP)

My first perfect game in a while brings me to three wins in a row. Here’s how I managed:

A pretty straightforward game today, I think. I didn’t really see any glaring red herrings, so I was able to crack on and finish all four groups in sequence in probably under a minute.

DRAIN and EMPTY gave me the yellows, while GROOVE and JAM led me to the greens. Seeing SKAT and TIP next to each other made the blues a breeze. That left the purples – for which I figured out the context – to win.

That’s all there is to it for today Connections clues and answers. Remember to check my blog for tips and the fix for Friday’s match if you need them.

PS I’m almost contractually obligated to go with this song for today’s recommendation (just in case the purple clue wasn’t clear enough for you):

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