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Date : Sat Nov 15 2025 15:15:09

NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, November 16 (game #889)

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Sat, 15 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 
Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers 
for Saturday, November 15 (game #888) . 

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 
#889) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times) 

Today's NYT Connections words are PEDESTRIAN BARCODE TAX RAILROAD ZEBRA 
EVERYDAY SCHOOL AVENUE RUGBY SHIRT APPROACH BANAL PARKING PHILOSOPHY HUMDRUM 
IBM LOGO METHOD NYT Connections today (game #889) - hint #1 - group hints 

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Performing a 
skill GREEN: Bland and average BLUE: Banded stuff PURPLE: Visited in a famous 
board game 

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 #889) - hint #2 - group answers 

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: TECHNIQUE 
GREEN: RUN-OF-THE-MILL BLUE: STRIPY THINGS PURPLE: WORDS ON MONOPOLY SQUARES 

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT 
TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #889) - the answers (Image credit: 
New York Times) 

The answers to today's Connections, game #889, are YELLOW: TECHNIQUE 
APPROACH, METHOD, PHILOSOPHY, SCHOOL GREEN: RUN-OF-THE-MILL BANAL, EVERYDAY, 
HUMDRUM, PEDESTRIAN BLUE: STRIPY THINGS BARCODE, IBM LOGO, RUGBY SHIRT, ZEBRA 
PURPLE: WORDS ON MONOPOLY SQUARES AVENUE, PARKING, RAILROAD, TAX My rating: 
Easy My score: Perfect 

When I saw the tiles for BARCODE and ZEBRA my first thought was that we were 
looking for black and white things, but finding no other possibilities I 
abandoned that idea. 

It was realizing that BARCODE and ZEBRA had another thing in common that 
flipped the switch  but I still had to take a gamble with RUGBY SHIRT; 
although striped shirts are common, many professional rugby teams play in a 
single color (such as the most famous team, New Zealand, who are nicknamed 
the All Blacks). 

Not seeing WORDS ON MONOPOLY SQUARES was annoying, as its one of my favorite 
board games. Perhaps if there was a tile for jail I would have got it. 
Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Saturday, November 15, game #888) 
YELLOW: ENHANCE THE TASTE OF FLAVOR, SALT, SEASON, SPICE GREEN: PUNCTUATION 
MARKS COLON, DASH, PERIOD, SLASH BLUE: KINDS OF ACTORS CHARACTER, FILM, 
METHOD, STAGE PURPLE: ____ ZONE BUFFER, COMFORT, TIME, TWILIGHT 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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