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 #893): Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- PRETENTIOUS
- KISS
- ENAMEL
- REHEARSAL
- CROWN
- DECAY
- BRUSH
- PASTE
- ANY
- SKIM
- AND SO
- PULP
- STICK
- STROKE
- ROOT
- ARRANGE
NYT Connections Today (Game #893) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some leads for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Attach one to another
- GREEN: Lightly touch
- BLUE: dental elements
- PURPLE: Several characters in one
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 #893) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: ADHERE
- GREEN: GRAVE
- BLUE: PARTS OF A TOOTH
- PURPLE: WORDS THAT SOUND LIKE TWO LETTERS
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #893): The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #893 are…
- YELLOW: ADHERE FIX, PASTE, PLASTER, PASTE
- GREEN: GRAVE BRUSH, KISS, SKIM, RACE
- BLUE: PARTS OF A TOOTH CROWN, ENAMEL, PULP, ROOT
- PURPLE: WORDS THAT SOUND LIKE TWO LETTERS ANY, ARTY, DECAY, ESSAY
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 2 errors
There were many ancient bands hidden among the current tiles. PULP and KISS jumped out, but adding or subtracting letters were also Rush, Strokes, Roots and Fixx. But this was not what led me to make two unnecessary mistakes.
Watching CROWN and ROOT convinced me that I needed to put together a group that was about dentistry rather than the much more obvious PARTS OF A TOOTH, so I wasted several mistakes by adding DECAY and then BRUSH, before finally seeing sense.
If I had spoken the remaining tiles out loud, I could have solved the purple/hardest group. Congratulations to those who did it. However, instead I worked on ADHERE and memories from a previous job sticking up gig posters all over London (I wasn’t fast enough to last long).
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Wednesday, November 19, Game #892)
- YELLOW: ROBUST HUSKY, SOLID, SQUAD, THICK
- GREEN: DIRECTION DIRECT, GUIDE, DRIVER, SHEPHERD
- BLUE: SECOND WORDS IN POE STORIES, AFTER “THE” BARREL, AUTUMN, MASK, PIT
- PURPLE: ORGAN PLUS ONE LETTER COLONY, HOME, LUNGE, SKINK
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.
