NYT 'Connections' November 23: Hints and Answers for Game #531

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The mobile word game Connections was released in 2023 and quickly became a hit.

It's played by figuring out which of the 16 words on the daily table can be grouped into four groups of four.

Sounds simple enough, but some words can belong to more than one category or it's not always immediately obvious what groups of four go together.

"My best piece of advice is to wait as long as you can before guessing," Wyna Liu, the game's editor for The New York Times told Newsweek in June. "You may see the board and have completely identified the category, seeing five words that could belong in that category. Don't try to guess the four words in that category because even though you know what the fifth member is, you won't know which of the four it might not be," which would ultimately waste a turn.

How to Play Connections

The categories vary in difficulty from yellow to green to blue to purple, with yellow considered the easiest category and purple the trickiest.

For example, a recent game linked the words "braid," "bun," "pony" and "twist" under the category: "Ways to wear your hair up." This was a blue category.

Once you have selected four words, you click the "submit" button. If your choices are correct, they will appear in the category color and disappear from the grid. If they are incorrect, however, they will remain gray and stay on the board.

If you are stuck, try selecting the "shuffle" button to move the words to a different place on the grid.

Newsweek has put together some clues on how to play as well as hints and the answers for Saturday's game, so be careful scrolling down if you want to solve it by yourself.