Best Tips for Mastering NYT Connections | November 25th Puzzle Guide

Are you looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 25th November? If today’s assortment of words has you in a commotion, we have just the thing to help. Below is a host of hints to help you solve the word groups.

Connections is a word puzzle game published daily by the New York Times (NYT), the endlessly popular Wordle puzzle host. Crafted each day by puzzle-maker Wyna Liu, Connections presents you with a selection of 16 seemingly disparate words, and you have to group them in four sets of four, where each group of four words has a common theme.

It’s a simple premise, but as many of us here know, Connections can be devilishly tricky at times, filled with red herrings, misleading words, and little-known trivia. If you’re struggling to solve today’s Connections puzzle, this guide will help you to find the answers for Monday, 25th November 2024.

Below, we offer some carefully crafted hints and clues for today’s Connections. Then, we reveal the four different groups, and finally, the Connections answers themselves for those who are tired of wondering how it all fits together.

Connections hints for Monday, 25th November

Here’s a hint for each word group in today’s Connections puzzle, plus a couple more Connections clues to help you find the answer.

Our Connections hints for today are:

• Yellow (Easiest): Creatures you may find in an RPG.
• Green (Easy): Words you may see when sending an email.
• Blue (Medium): Types of a similar flavoured drink.
• Purple (Hardest): Words that sound like animals.
• Extra hint 1: ‘Phish’ and ‘Spam’ belong to two groups.
• Extra hint 2: ‘Pixie’ and ‘Sprite’ belong to two groups.

If you’re looking for more Connections hints today to help narrow down the answers, tap the spoiler Text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:

Yellow (Easiest):

PIXIE

Green (Easy):

SPAM

Blue (Medium):

SQUIRT

Purple (Hardest):

TOWED

What are today’s Connections words?

Here are the 16 Connections words for today:

What are today’s Connections groups?

If you need an even bigger clue to solve today’s Connections puzzle, below, we’ll reveal the four correct Connections groups—the themes linking together each set of four words in the Connections grid.

Here are the Connections groups for today:

• Fantasy creatures
• Email folders
• Citrus sodas
• Animal homophones

Now that you know the themes for the various Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check the whole answer below.

Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections answer lies ahead!

What are today’s Connections answers?

Here are the complete answers to today’s Connections puzzle on Monday, 25th November:

• Fantasy creatures: Dragon, Giant, Pixie, Troll
• Email folders: Drafts, Sent, Spam, Trash
• Citrus sodas: Crush, Sprite, Squirt, Starry
• Animal homophones: Bore, Links, Phish, Towed

When I saw ‘Phish’, I knew an ‘Animal homophones’ category existed. Connections love to throw out a homophone group weekly to keep people on their toes. Thankfully, my RPG instincts kicked in, and I soon got the ‘Fantasy Creatures’ group, followed by the ‘Email folders’ group. I have no idea what half of these drinks are, but luckily, I didn’t need to complete the Connections groups today.

Congratulations if you got today’s Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you failed today, don’t worry—a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle.

What is Connections?

Connections is one of the most popular daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). Connections aims to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, where each group of four words has a common theme.

For instance, the words “Hook,” “Nana,” “Peter,” and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or, to take another example, “Action,” “Ballpark,” “Go,” and “Stick” are all words that commonly come just before the word “Figure.”

Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the various words – but be wary because a lot of the time, there are red herring connections placed in there deliberately to throw you off! You must find all four Connections without making four mistakes to win the game. On your fourth mistake, the game is over, and the answer is revealed automatically.

Each of the four groups in each day’s Connections puzzle is also assigned a different colour, representing how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colours are Yellow (Easiest), Green (Easy), Blue (Medium), and Purple (Hardest).