NYT Connections: Hints & Answers Monday 18/11 (Game #526)

November 18, 2024

2

NYT Connections: Hints & Answers Monday 18/11 (Game #526)

Article Contents

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers into different categories. It can be tricky, so read on if you need clues.

What should you do after you finish? Why, play some more word games of course. I also have Wordle Daily Hints and Answers, Strands Hints and Answers, and Quordle Hints and Answers articles if you need help with those as well.

SPOILER ALERT: Information about today's NYT Connections is below, so don't read if you don't want to know the answers.

Your Connections Specialist

Mark McLaren

NYT Connections today (game #526) – today's words

NYT Connections Game 526 hints on purple background

(Image: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are…

DOMINO
DRYER
FIDLER
LADYBIRD
INTERNET
PETAL
SPIDER
RENT
HAIR STAINLESS STEEL
GAS
DALMATIAN
COMB
PHONE
HERMIT
ROLL
MOLD

NYT Links Today (game #526) – hint #1 – team tips

What are some clues about today's NYT Connections groups?

Yellow: You may find them at a hair salon
Green: Payment expenses
Blue: They are spotted
Purple: Laterally mobile

Need more clues?

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

NYT Connections today (game #526) – hint #2 – group answers

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

YELLOW: USED IN HAIR CARE
GREEN: MONTHLY EXPENSES
BLUE: STUFF WITH HERNIAS
PURPLE: ___ CRAB

That's right, the answers are below, so DON'T SCROLL ANY MORE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #526) – the answers

NYT Connections Game 526 answers on a purple background

(Image: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #526, are…

YELLOW: USED IN HAIR CARE COMB, DRY, HAIR STAIN, ROLLER
GREEN: MONTHLY EXPENSES GAS, INTERNET, TELEPHONE, FOR RENT
BLUE: STUFF WITH HERNIAS DALMATIAN, DIE, DOMINO, LADYBUG
PURPLE: ___ CRAB VALLEY, QUEST, PETALOS, SPIDER

My rating: Moderate
My rating: Perfect

I almost scored a reverse rainbow today, which I've only done once before. This is the NYT term for solving the four Connections groups in reverse order of difficulty – so purple, then blue, then green, then the easier yellow.

Unfortunately (sort of – never mind actually!) I got blue first, so the dream died there. But it was strange that my brain identified the two most difficult initials and had to work a little harder to solve the green and yellow.

Blue was good: SPOTTED THINGS, with DALMATIAN, DIE, DOMINO and LADYBUG. I always find it helpful to not just look at the words, but to think about them visually. Doing this here gave me the image of a spotted Dalmatian and domino, so I went looking for others and found them both.

Purple, meanwhile, was one that required little general knowledge. I've never actually heard of FIDDLER CRAB, but I knew that HERMIT, SPIDER, and HERSESHOE, and FIDDLER were a better match than any of the other words (NETWORK CRAB? HAIR CRAB? Obviously not!) so I played it and guessed right. Green and Yellow were pretty easy at that stage, so I completed today's with no mistakes – a rarity for me.

How did you do today? Email me and let me know.

Yesterday's NYT Connections Answers (Sunday, November 17, Game #525)

YELLOW: ALLIANCE ASSOCIATION, CONNECTION, PROTOPOULUS, UNION
GREEN: ELEMENTS CENTRAL, ELEGANT, HARD, CONTINUOUS
BLUE: OCCASIONS WHEN SOMEONE MAY KNEEL APOLOGY, REPENTANCE, PRAYER, PROPOSAL
PURPLE: WHAT A RETURN CAN SHOW CONTRACTION, LEG, POSITIVE, QUOTE

What are NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games created by The New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four objects that share something in common, and each group has a different level of difficulty: green is easy, yellow is a little harder, blue is often quite hard, and purple is usually very difficult.

The upside is that you don't technically need to solve the final, as you'll be able to answer it by an elimination process. Plus, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you some breathing room.

It's a bit more involved than something like Wordle, though, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trick you. For example, watch out for homophones and other wordplay that could obscure the answers.

It is free to play through NYT Games website on a computer or mobile.

NYT Connections: Hints & Answers Monday 18/11 (Game #526)

Laptop Chip Comparison Testing

Xiaomi 14T/14T Pro details leak

GM's Cruise fined $500.000 for false accident report

LEAVE AN ANSWER Ακύρωση απάντησης

Popular Articles

Gigabit Voucher: Vouchers for cheaper fiber connections launch - All the details

Forever Chemicals: New Research Reveals Dangerous Effects on Kidney Function

Mysterious Radio Bursts from Giant Galaxies – New Scientific Research

A quick UI 7 panel for even more customizable

Latest News

Laptop Chip Comparison Testing

Martha Stewart's Collaboration With Snoop Dogg –

Xiaomi 14T/14T Pro details leak

Developer comments and improved graphics for the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2

Editors' Choices

Xiaomi vs Apple: The Chinese Company Takes Second Place in the Global Smartphone Market

Gmail with New “Shielded Email” Function

SpaceX is preparing the 6th flight of the Starship megarocket for November 19

Random Articles

Motorola Android 15 Update: List of Compatible Devices

Black Friday Deal: Two Blink Mini 2 Cameras Only $35 !

NVIDIA's NGPT model reduces AI training time by 20x

POPULAR CATEGORY

ABOUT US

FOLLOW US