NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For November 29 (#537)

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Find the links between the words to win today's game of Connections.getty

Looking for Thursday’s Connections hints and answers instead? You can find them here:

Hey there, bargain hunters! It’s Black Friday, which means you may be on the lookout for some killer deals. I’ve already bought a bunch of things in the sales, so I probably won’t pick up anything else unless I find a killer discount.

One thing I did pick up is the virtual reality headset for PlayStation 5. I’m sad that I’m not having a great time with it so far.

I haven’t figured out how to make it sit on my head so that the image isn’t blurry while I have my glasses on. I also encountered a bug that made a VR version of Trombone Champ, a game I was very excited to check out, unplayable. I’ll stick with the PS VR2 a little longer but I’m already on the verge of returning it. So it goes.

Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, November 29, are coming right up.

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How To Play Connections

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

You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.

There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links 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 most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.

Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll 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 the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.

If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication’s Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.

Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my hints 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 Connections Hints?

Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.

Today’s 16 words are...

  • ENDEAVOR
  • CURB
  • NATIONAL
  • BOARDWALK
  • HERTZ
  • TWIN
  • MOLE
  • ENTERPRISE
  • SILICON
  • PROJECT
  • TIGER
  • VOLT
  • GAME
  • RAY
  • SECOND
  • VENTURE

And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:

  • Yellow group — major task
  • Green group — ways to measure
  • Blue group — diamond regulars, but not at this time of year
  • Purple group — "band," "true" (twice!) and "six" would fit in here

What Are Today’s Connections Groups?

Need some extra help?

Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.

Today’s Connections groups are...

  • Yellow group — undertaking
  • Green group — units
  • Blue group — M.L.B team member
  • Purple group — first words of HBO shows

What Are Today’s Connections Answers?

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

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections answers are...

  • Yellow group — undertaking (ENDEAVOR, ENTERPRISE, PROJECT, VENTURE)
  • Green group — units (HERTZ, MOLE, SECOND, VOLT)
  • Blue group — M.L.B team member (NATIONAL, RAY, TIGER, TWIN)
  • Purple group — first words of HBO shows (BOARDWALK, CURB, GAME, SILICON)

No perfect game today, but I'm happy to have back-to-back victories. Here's how I fared:

🟨🟦🟩🟨

🟨🟨🟨🟨

🟦🟦🟦🟦

🟪🟪🟩🟪

🟪🟪🟪🟪

🟩🟩🟩🟩

I thought that ENDEAVOR, ENTERPRISE, NATIONAL and HERTZ would form a group of car rental companies, but nope! Realizing I got suckered by a red herring, I swapped out the latter two to get the yellows.

I had a feeling about TWIN and TIGER and it took me a moment of staring at them for the connection to click. RAY was an easy addition, but I had to dig into my memory banks to remember about the existence of the Washington Nationals (the others are the Tampa Bay Rays, Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins).

I had a hunch that BOARDWALK referred to Boardwalk Empire, but instead of considering other HBO shows, I focused on pinpointing what I assumed were the greens. HERTZ and VOLT obviously make sense together as types of measurements as does SECOND. I somehow thought GAME would go with them.

So I guessed what I thought were the purples (including MOLE) and I was one away. It was then that I realized what was going on here, so I got the purples then the greens for a second straight win.

For the record, the shows referenced are Boardwalk Empire, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Game of Thrones and Silicon Valley. My clue referenced Band of Brothers, True Detective, True Blood and Six Feet Under.

A MOLE, meanwhile, is used to measure a number of molecules or atoms. I learned something new today.

That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Saturday’s game if you need them.

P.S. There are sure are a lot of great theme songs for HBO shows. The ones from The Last Of Us, Game of Thrones and season one of The Wire are personal favorites. But let's go with the one from True Blood. It was a perfect fit for that show.

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