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Date : Sun Nov 16 2025 15:15:09

NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, November 17 (game #890)

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Sun, 16 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 
Sunday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers 
for Sunday, November 16 (game #889) . 

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

Today's NYT Connections words are TABOO SLAM DUNK GO-GETTER SURE THING 
SHOO-IN SCATTERGORIES OKEY-DOKE PROSCRIBED ALLEY-OOP ABSOLUTELY VERBOTEN 
FADEAWAY OFF-LIMITS LEAVENING FINGER ROLL OF COURSE NYT Connections today 
(game #890) - hint #1 - group hints 

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Hell, yeah! 
GREEN: No entry BLUE: NBA skills PURPLE: Begging is synonym of vamoose 

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 #890) - hint #2 - group answers 

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: "YOU BET" 
GREEN: FORBIDDEN BLUE: BASKETBALL SHOTS PURPLE: STARTING WITH SYNONYMS FOR 
"SCRAM!" 

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT 
TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #890) - the answers (Image credit: 
New York Times) 

The answers to today's Connections, game #890, are YELLOW: "YOU BET" 
ABSOLUTELY, OF COURSE, OKEY-DOKE, SURE THING GREEN: FORBIDDEN OFF-LIMITS, 
PROSCRIBED, TABOO, VERBOTEN BLUE: BASKETBALL SHOTS ALLEY-OOP, FADEAWAY, 
FINGER ROLL, SLAM DUNK PURPLE: STARTING WITH SYNONYMS FOR "SCRAM!" GO-GETTER, 
LEAVENING, SCATTERGORIES, SHOO-IN My rating: Easy My score: Perfect 

As someone playing Connections from the UK and with no idea about US sports 
its always a thrill to get a sports group correct. 

Ill be honest, SLAM DUNK and ALLEY-OOP I knew and I only selected FINGER ROLL 
and FADEAWAY as they sounded like basketball tricks rather than BASKETBALL 
SHOTS. 

The green group FORBIDDEN was an easy one to get from my eight remaining 
tiles but todays hardest group looks a lot more gettable than usual. 
Congratulations if you aced it and got purple early. Yesterday's NYT 
Connections answers (Sunday, November 16, game #889) 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 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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