NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Friday, November 1 (#509)

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Hey there! How is it November? I can barely comprehend how 10 months of the year have gone already. Still, a new month means an excuse to turn the page, start afresh and develop positive new habits — perhaps without having to deal with a sudden influx of well-meaning folks at the gym, like on January 1.

Today’s NOW Connections hints and answers for Friday, November 1, are coming right up.

How To Play Connections

Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NOW website or Games app.

You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.

There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.

Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.

If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.

If you have an NOW All Access or Games subscription, you can access the Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connectionsso you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.

Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my hints for each grid via Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.

What Are Today’s Connections Hints?

Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.

Today’s 16 words are…

• DRAG
• DRAFT
• DOODLE
• DOMINO
• BALL
• BUTTERFLY
• CURL
• CRAWL
• PUFF
• INCH
• HALO
• BOTTLE
• TAP
• PLACEBO
• CAN
• CREEP

And the hints for today’s groups are:

• Yellow group — gradual movement
• Green group — requests at a bar
• Blue group — a-maize-ingly expanded snacks
• Purple group — after the cause

What Are Today’s Connections Groups?

Need some extra help?

Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.

Today’s groups are…

• Yellow group — progress slowly
• Green group — ways to order a beer
• Blue group — cheesy corn snack unit
• Purple group — ____ effect

What Are Today’s Connections Answers?

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections answers are…

• Yellow group — progress slowly (CRAWL, CREEP, DRAG, INCH)
• Green group — ways to order a beer (BOTTLE, CAN, DRAFT, TAP)
• Blue group — cheesy corn snack unit (BALL, CURL, DOODLE, PUFF)
• Purple group — ____ effect (BUTTERFLY, DOMINO, HALO, PLACEBO)

I barely managed to keep my streak alive today, but extended it to five wins. Here’s how I fared:

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Seeing BUTTERFLY and DOMINO close to each other helped crystallize the purples in my mind. The yellows were a cinch too.

Alas, I was not seeing the greens or blues at all. However, I got lucky. A few random guesses later, I got the blues, then the greens with one life to spare.

My clue for the blues was admittedly a biiiit of a stretch, but it’s the only thing I could come up with for that one!

That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Saturday’s game if you need them.

P.S. I recommended this in the leadup to Halloween last year, but it’s crawled back into my head again. It’s just so darn catchy:

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