Find the links between the words to win today’s Link game.
gettyIf you are looking for hints and answers for Sunday Connections? You can find them here:
Hi, everyone! If it’s back to work or school for you today, welcome to the start of a new week. Otherwise, enjoy what’s left of a great weekend!
I didn’t sleep very well last week. I can’t imagine why, really. So, since I had no plans for Saturday and Sunday except to do some extra work, I tried to get more sleep. It’s been working a little, according to my sleep tracker, but I still have a long way to go to completely eliminate my sleep debt.
Anyway, today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday November 11th coming soon.
How to play the links
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play at NYT website or the Games app.
You are presented with a grid of 16 words. Your goal is to arrange them into four groups of four, identifying the links between them. Groups could be things like clickable items, names for research participants, or words before a body part.
There is only one solution to each puzzle and you should be careful when dealing with words that may fit into more than one category. You can mix up the words to help you perhaps see the links between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, the blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the hardest. The purple team often includes wordplay.
Choose four words that you think go together and hit submit. If you make a guess and get it wrong, you’ll lose a life. If you’re getting close to making a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still have to figure out which ones to trade.
If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of a few pointers, and if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with me Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and in group chats.
If you have one NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the Connections file. This includes every previous game of his Connectionsso you can go back and play any you’ve missed.
Apart from the first 60 or so games, 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 are today’s hookup tips?
Scroll 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…
- CRUNCHING
- SUBSTANCE
- DEMI
- SUE
- LARGE
- PUSH
- SPORT
- PUSH-UP
- MARS
- MEAT
- EARLY
- PAYDAY
- CORE
- DOVE
- LADY
- WIRELESS
And the tips for today’s teams are:
- Yellow group — sweet treats
- Green team — the general idea
- Blue team — important support workers
- Purple team – “blue” or “song” would fit here
What are today’s connection groups?
Need some extra help?
Attention: we are starting to enter spoiler area.
Today’s teams are…
- Yellow team — chocolate bars
- Green team — substance
- Blue team — bra items
- Purple group — _____ bird
What are the answers of today’s connections?
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll down the page until you’re ready to learn today’s Connections answers.
This is your last warning!
Today’s Connections the answers are…
- Yellow team — chocolate bars (CRUNCH, DOVE, MARS, PAYDAY)
- Green group — essence (CORE, MEAT, ESSENCE, THRUST)
- Blue group – bras (DEMI, PUSH-UP, SPORTS, WIRELESS)
- Purple Team — _____ bird (LARGE, MORNING, MAIN, INDICATION)
My last streak ended after 14 wins. Here’s how I did:
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I thought CRUNCH, THRUST and PUSH-UP constituted a red herring, mainly because we had a group of drills in a recent game. So I got the green and blue ones without much problem.
I was confused after that. I’ve never heard of a DOVE chocolate bar (neither had CRUNCH or PAYDAY) or SUE Bird, but I still should have been able to make a more educated guess than the four random attempts I actually made.
I found it a bit amusing that I used “bird” as an example of an in-game red herring clue yesterday, and here’s one of the links.
That’s all there is for today Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for tips and the solution for Tuesday’s game if you need them.
PS Last week, I got a pitch to write about some video game soundtrack vinyl releases from the folks at iam8bit. One of them was from the Blueshift Big Band. It is a collection of jazz renditions of music from Super Mario Bros. games. Of a pretty great recordand you don’t have to be a video game fan to appreciate the likes of:
If you are so inclined, go for it follow my blog for more coverage Connections and other word games, and even some video game news, information and analysis. It helps me a lot!
