Subj : NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, November 13 (game
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Date : Wed Nov 12 2025 15:15:07

NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, November 13 (game #886)

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Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0000

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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to 
solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

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for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each 
day for your time zone  which means that some people are always playing 
'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for 
Wednesday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers 
for Wednesday, November 12 (game #885) . 

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that 
challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so 
read on if you need Connections hints. 

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of 
course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and 
answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today 
page covers the original viral word game. 

 SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't 
read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Connections today (game 
#886) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times) 

Today's NYT Connections words are FIRE EXTINGUISHER AIR PURIFIER MICROSOFT 
INSTAGRAM CIGARETTE BOX OVAL THREADS FIT POST COFFEE MAKER BEER SHAVING CREAM 
GETUP SEA DUDS NYT Connections today (game #886) - hint #1 - group hints 

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Clothing 
GREEN: Bubbles in common BLUE: A layer for improvement PURPLE: Add a 
workplace word 

Need more clues? 

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what 
the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles NYT 
Connections today (game #886) - hint #2 - group answers 

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: ATTIRE 
GREEN: FOAMY THINGS BLUE: THINGS THAT USE FILTERS PURPLE: _____ OFFICE 

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT 
TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #886) - the answers (Image credit: 
New York Times) 

The answers to today's Connections, game #886, are YELLOW: ATTIRE DUDS, FIT, 
GETUP, THREADS GREEN: FOAMY THINGS BEER, FIRE EXTINGUISHER, SEA, SHAVING 
CREAM BLUE: THINGS THAT USE FILTERS AIR PURIFIER, CIGARETTE, COFFEE MAKER, 
INSTAGRAM PURPLE: _____ OFFICE BOX, MICROSOFT, OVAL, POST My rating: Hard My 
score: 1 mistake 

A surprisingly enjoyable game, but one that tested my patience. 

This was a round that contained a couple of pairs. Social media apps 
INSTAGRAM and THREADS jumped out immediately, but I resisted cobbling 
together a group from those. More esoterically, I considered DUDS and COFFEE 
MAKER being linked by milk. 

Thankfully, after remembering that DUDS is old English slang for clothes, I 
found all four tiles in ATTIRE  particularly tricky to be the easiest/yellow 
group  and then saw the link between CIGARETTES, INSTAGRAM, AIR PURIFIER, and 
COFFEE MAKER. 

With eight tiles left I took a wild guess at four random words and after 
getting a one away pop-up saw that the link was the word OFFICE. Phew! 
Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Wednesday, November 12, game #885) 
YELLOW: SPORTS GOLF, JUDO, POLO, SUMO GREEN: DOOFUS BOZO, DODO, DOPE, YO-YO 
BLUE: ACRONYMS BOGO, FOMO, GOAT, YOLO PURPLE: SPANISH WORDS COMO, LOCO, POCO, 
ROJO What is NYT Connections? 

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

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as 
you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, 
you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing 
room. 

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there 
are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For 
instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise 
the answers. 

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.



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