What is NYT Connections?
Connections tasks players with grouping 16 words into four thematic sets, colour coded as yellow, green, blue and purple, with increasing difficulty. The game rewards lateral thinking more than obscure vocabulary, and the daily puzzles commonly prompt lively debate on social media as solvers share strategies and spoilers.
NYT Connections Hints November 26
For Wednesday’s puzzle the editorial hints, as revealed in a report by Beebom are:
- Yellow: Verbs (more precisely, verbs expressing possibility)
- Green: Female nicknames
- Blue: Abbreviations used in finance
- Purple: Animals spelt backwards
These broad prompts are intended to nudge solvers toward patterns rather than hand them the answers outright, keeping the game challenging for regular players while aiding newcomers.
NYT Connections Answers for November 26, 2025
After working through the grid, the four correct groupings for Connections Hints Today were:
- VERBS EXPRESSING POSSIBILITY (Yellow): CAN, COULD, MAY, MIGHT.
A neat set: everyday auxiliary verbs that convey different shades of possibility or permission. - WOMEN’S NICKNAMES (Green): DEB, JAN, KAT, SUE.
Abbreviated, familiar forms of Deborah, Janet/Janine, Katherine/Kathryn, and Susan/Susannah. - FINANCIAL ABBREVIATIONS (Blue): APR, CFO, IRA, SEC.
A finance-savvy quartet: annual percentage rate (APR), chief financial officer (CFO), individual retirement account (IRA) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). - BACKWARDS ANIMALS (Purple): FLOW, GOD, MAR, TAB.
The trickiest set for many: each entry is a reversed form of a familiar animal name (wolf → FLOW, dog → GOD, ram → MAR, bat → TAB), a classic Connections device that tests pattern recognition over direct meaning.
Solver reactions on social feeds ranged from nods of satisfaction at the straightforward yellow and blue groups to mild frustration at the purple set, whose reverse-spelling approach sometimes flummoxes players who prioritise semantic links.
NYT Connections: Difficulty and strategy
Today’s grid was rated a 2 out of 5 on a subjective difficulty scale, accessible for regular players, but requiring an alert eye for the purple category’s reversal trick. Seasoned solvers say the best approach is to lock in the most obvious set first (often yellow or blue) to reduce the pool of remaining words that could fit the more inventive categories.
FAQs
What are NYT Connections Hints Today?
They are brief clues provided to help players identify the four thematic groups in that day’s NYT Connections puzzle.
How many attempts do I get in Connections?
You have four attempts to correctly identify all four groups; each wrong grouping reduces the remaining guesses.