Good day! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers into various categories. It can be difficult, so read on if you need Connections tips.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections Today (Game #885): Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- YOLO
- POLE
- LOCOMOTIVE
- GEEZER
- AS
- FOMO
- JUDO
- BOGO
- DOWN
- RED
- YO-YO
- SUMO
- BIT
- DRUG
- GOLF
- GOAT
NYT Connections Today (Game #885) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some leads for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Competitive activities
- GREEN: A little crazy person
- BLUE: A quick way to say something.
- PURPLE: How to speak in Madrid
Do you need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the answers are to the four topics for today’s NYT Connections riddles…
NYT Connections Today (Game #885) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: SPORTS
- GREEN: DOOFUS
- BLUE: ACRONYMS
- PURPLE: WORDS IN SPANISH
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #885): The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #885 are…
- YELLOW: SPORTS GOLF, JUDO, POLO, SUMO
- GREEN: DOOFUS BOZO, DODO, DOPE, YOYO
- BLUE: ACRONYMS BOGO, FOMO, GOAT, YOLO
- PURPLE: WORDS IN SPANISH LIKE, CRAZY, LITTLE, RED
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 2 errors
These kinds of Connections, like this four-letter show, always confuse my thinking, so I’m really excited to have gotten through it with just two mistakes.
The first was trying to find a fourth acronym that combined with the ones I knew: GOAT, FOMO, and YOLO. I assumed LIKE first and then BOGO, since I thought it was a variant of BOGOF, or buy one get one free, which in fact it is, just without the “free” part.
My next mistake was one that I had made before and that was thinking that POLO and GOLF were the beginning of a group of cars manufactured by Volkswagen. They are, but my guesses about POCO and LOCO are not; The latter, of course, is often an acronym for Loser of Connections.
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Tuesday, November 11, Game #884)
- YELLOW: MAKEUP BLUSH, FOUNDATION, HIGHLIGHTER, POWDER
- GREEN: AMPLITUDE EXTENSION, RANGE, SCALE, REACH
- BLUE: OBJECT USED FOR SUPPORT BASE, SUPPORT, REST, SUPPORT
- PURPLE: ICONS ON AN IPHONE COMPASS, ENVELOPE, MUSIC NOTES, SPEECH BUBBLE
What are NYT connections?
NYT Connections is one of the increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow is a little harder, blue is usually quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final question since you’ll be able to answer it through a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little breathing room.
However, it’s a little more complicated than something like Wordle and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For example, be careful with homophones and other puns that could disguise answers.
It can be played for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile devices.
