Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Sat, November 23rd

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Are you looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 23rd November? With only four guesses to score, sometimes you need a little nudge in the right direction. Below are a host of hints and answers for today’s 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 find the answers for Saturday, November 23rd, 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 Saturday, 23rd 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): A report or description of an event or experience.
• Green (Easy): These words are all produced by a similar natural plant.
• Blue (Medium): These words have stuck in common.
• Purple (Hardest): These words have the same two colors in common.
• Extra hint 1: ‘Account’ does not refer to a financial statement here.
• Extra hint 2: There are no food or sweets categories today.

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):

CHRONICLE

Green (Easy):

RESIN

Blue (Medium):

LOLLIPOP

Purple (Hardest):

LICORICE

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:

• Telling of events
• Secreted by trees
• Things on sticks
• Black or red

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 Saturday, 23rd November:

• Telling of events: Account, Chronicle, Description, Story
• Secreted by trees: Gum, Latex, Resin, Sap
• Things on sticks: Ball-In-Cup, Corndog, Cotton swab, Lollipop
• Black or red: Balance sheet, Checkers, Licorice, Roulette

I thought licorice was traditionally black and white. Huh. It’s safe to say I did not do well in Today’s Connections puzzle.

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 color, representing how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colors are Yellow (Easiest), Green (Easy), Blue (Medium), and Purple (Hardest).