NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Friday, November 8 (game #516)

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Good morning! Let's play Connections, nan NYT's clever connection crippled that challenges you to group answers successful various categories. It tin beryllium tough, truthful publication connected if you request clues.

What should you do erstwhile you've finished? Why, play immoderate much connection games of course. I've besides sewage regular Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you request thief for those too.

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NYT Connections coming (game #516) - today's words

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Today's NYT Connections words are…

BLUE
CHEESE
SPICY
MUSTARD
SWEET
CAPER
DILL
DECK
EXPLOIT
SOUR
ADULT
ANTIC
SUGGESTIVE
STUNT
KOSHER
CORD

NYT Connections coming (game #516) - hint #1 - group hints

What are immoderate clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

Yellow: Up to something
Green: Gherkin is another
Blue: That's rude!
Purple: [Divide] blank

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NYT Connections coming (game #516) - hint #2 - group answers

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

YELLOW: ESCAPADE
GREEN: KINDS OF PICKLES
BLUE: RISQUÉ
PURPLE: CUT THE ___

Right, nan answers are below, truthful DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections coming (game #516) - nan answers

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The answers to today's Connections, crippled #516, are…

YELLOW: ESCAPADE ANTIC, CAPER, EXPLOIT, STUNT
GREEN: KINDS OF PICKLES DILL, KOSHER, SOUR, SWEET
BLUE: RISQUÉ ADULT, BLUE, SPICY, SUGGESTIVE
PURPLE: CUT THE ___ CHEESE, CORD, DECK, MUSTARD

My rating: Hard
My score: Fail

Oh dear. This is my 2nd neglect successful only a fewer days, truthful it's backmost to nan drafting committee for me, streak-wise. Not that I consciousness excessively bad astir losing today's crippled – I'd ne'er heard of respective of nan elements mentioned, aliases astatine slightest not successful nan discourse successful which they're utilized here.

Things started disconnected good enough, pinch ADULT, BLUE, SPICY and SUGGESTIVE each ordering themselves successful my mind into nan bluish group, RISQUÉ. Yellow – ESCAPADE – was besides easy enough. But location I stalled. I'm not a pickle eater, truthful didn't really person a chance pinch nan greenish group. And though I should astir apt person made immoderate advancement pinch nan purple group, I've never, ever heard nan building CUT THE CHEESE. You study thing caller each day, I guess…

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Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Thursday, 7 November, crippled #515)

YELLOW: FOOD-RELATED JUMBLES HASH, SALAD, SCRAMBLE, STEW
GREEN: PUBLIC STANDING CHARACTER, IMAGE, NAME, REPUTATION
BLUE: INFO ON A MUSEUM PLACARD ARTIST, MEDIUM, TITLE, YEAR
PURPLE: ANAGRAMS OF FAMOUS PAINTERS DIAL, EGADS, MONTE, YOGA

What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is 1 of respective progressively celebrated connection games made by nan New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of 4 items that stock thing successful common, and each group has a different trouble level: greenish is easy, yellowish a small harder, bluish often rather reliable and purple usually very difficult.

On nan positive side, you don't technically request to lick nan last one, arsenic you'll beryllium capable to reply that 1 by a process of elimination. What's more, you tin dress up to 4 mistakes, which gives you a small spot of breathing room.

It's a small much progressive than thing for illustration Wordle, however, and location are plentifulness of opportunities for nan crippled to travel you up pinch tricks. For instance, watch retired for homophones and different connection games that could disguise nan answers.

It's playable for free via nan NYT Games site connected desktop aliases mobile.

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