NYT Connections Today – Tips and Answers for Wednesday, November 27th (Game #535)

Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers into different categories. It can be difficult. So read on if you need pointers.

What should you do when you’re done? Of course, play a few more word games. I also have Daily Wordle Hints and Answers, Strands Hints and Answers, and Quordle Hints and Answers articles if you need help with those too.

SPOILER ALERT: Below is information about NYT Connections today. So don’t read any further if you don’t want to know the answers.

Your Connections expert

Marc McLaren

NYT Connections today (Game #535) – today’s words

NYT Connections notes for game 535 on purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

Today’s words from NYT Connections are…

RUBBER
BABY
BUGGY
BUMPER
A HOUSE
MIRROR
UNAUTHORIZED
TRIBUTE
BLOTCHY
ATTACHMENT
PET
WEDDING
BOY
GRID
Glitchy
EDGE

NYT Connections Today (Game #535) – Clue #1 – Group Clues

What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?

Yellow: collapse
Green: GEARS is another
Blue: Sometimes needs to be looked after
Purple: Blank (word for a music group and other things)

Do you need further advice?

We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four thematic answers for today’s NYT Connections puzzles are…

NYT Connections Today (Game #535) – Clue #2 – Group Answers

What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?

YELLOW: DOES NOT WORK RELIABLY
GREEN: CAR PARTS
BLUE: WHAT KIND OF SITTER COULD SIT
PURPLE: ___ VOLUME

That’s right, you can find the answers below. So don’t scroll any further if you don’t want to see them.

NYT Connections today (Game #535) – the answers

NYT Connections answers for game 535 on purple background

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today’s Connections, game #535, are…

YELLOW: DOES NOT WORK RELIABLY DEFECTIVE, UNAUTHORIZED, DISRUPTIVE, INCORRECT
GREEN: CAR PARTS BUMPER, RADIATOR GRILLE, MIRRORS, RIM
BLUE: WHAT KIND OF SITTER COULD SIT BABY, HOUSE, PET, PLANT
PURPLE: ___ VOLUME BOY, RUBBER, TRIBUTE, WEDDING

My rating: Moderate
My score: 3 errors

I was so close (makes gesture about 1 inch away) to failing here again, only to come home on my last breath when I realized I was missing an obvious connection.

The start was good, although yellow – which did not work reliably – was immediately noticeable. I guessed wrong on blue before discovering that “WHAT A SITTER MIGHT SIT” applies to BABY, HOUSE, PET, and PLANT. But that’s where I got stuck.

I could see that MIRRORS, GRILLE and BUMPER were all CAR PARTS, but it didn’t occur to me that RIM would be different. A rim is arguably a part of a car, but it doesn’t seem to be as integral as the others; There are rims on many things other than cars. So I chose RUBBER and thought tires, and when that was wrong I changed course and tried something with WEDDING, TRIBUTE and er MIRROR and BOY with the vague thought that it was something like “things you have a “would give a speech” was clearly a terrible guess and obviously wrong. So I turned back to the cars and thought a little more carefully this time. At this point, it seemed like RIM had to pass. And of course it did, but I felt like a real idiot.

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Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Tuesday, November 26, Game #534)

YELLOW: GOOD THINGS YOU CAN GET AT WORK BONUS, EQUITY, PROMOTION, INCREASE
GREEN: Ignore DISCOUNT, FORGET, IGNORE, OVERLOOK
BLUE: TYPES OF CRACKERS ANIMAL, CLUB, GOLDFISH, RITZ
PURPLE: FEATURED IN “ELOISE” ELOISE, PLAZA, PUG, TURTLE

What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games from The New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that have something in common, and each group has a different level of difficulty: Green is easy, Yellow is slightly more difficult, Blue is often quite difficult, and Purple is usually very difficult.

On the bright side, you don’t technically have to solve the last question as you can answer it through a process of elimination. Additionally, you can make up to four mistakes, giving you some breathing room.

However, it’s a bit more complicated than something like Wordle and there are lots of ways to trip you up with tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other puns that could obscure answers.

It is free to play on desktop or mobile via the NYT Games website.

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