Today’s NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Saturday, November 16

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Welcome to the weekend, folks! I hope you’ve got some fun plans lined up. It’s my partner’s birthday, so we’ll be spending some quality time together. I’ve bought her a few fun gifts, so I hope she likes them.

Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, November 16, are coming right up.

How To Play Connections

Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT website or Games app.

You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.

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There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.

Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.

If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.

If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.

Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my hints for each grid via Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.

What Are Today’s Connections Hints?

Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.

Today’s 16 words are...

• ROGUE
• CAP
• GATOR
• SEAL
• BERET
• WOLVERINE
• COMMANDO
• FIGURE
• VOLUNTEER
• DERBY
• PILLBOX
• COVER
• PLUG
• SNAPBACK
• SOONER
• BANANAS

And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:

• Yellow group — they stop liquid from escaping
• Green group — top fashion
• Blue group — stadium staples in the fall
• Purple group — "fish" and "steady" would have fit here

What Are Today’s Connections Groups?

Need some extra help?

Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.

Today’s Connections groups are...

• Yellow group — things that prevent leaks
• Green group — kinds of hats
• Blue group — college football team members
• Purple group — go ____

What Are Today’s Connections Answers?

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections answers are...

• Yellow group — things that prevent leaks (CAP, COVER, PLUG, SEAL)
• Green group — kinds of hats (BERET, DERBY, PILLBOX, SNAPBACK)
• Blue group — college football team members (GATOR, SOONER, VOLUNTEER, WOLVERINE)
• Purple group — go ____ (BANANAS, COMMANDO, FIGURE, ROGUE)

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I thought that the hat-related words were a red herring, since CAP made sense with the yellows. Not entirely sure what I was thinking with a guess of BERET, COMMANDO, VOLUNTEER and ROGUE, but it made sense in my mind at the time.

Have to admit, I'm not super au fait with American sports, especially at the college level, but I thought (Oklahoma) SOONER, (Kentucky) DERBY and (Florida) GATOR might have been part of a group. I just didn't know what could go with them. I tried BANANAS (as in the wonderful Savannah Bananas), but no dice. I wasn't even one away from a group there.

I had no idea where to go from there, so made a couple of random guesses and was one away on both occasions. As it turns out, I wasn't a million miles away from figuring things out, so I don't feel too bad.

When I first saw the answers I wondered what on earth a DERBY hat was, because I've never heard it referred to in that way. It's a bowler hat where I come from. I was on the right path with the blues too. But I doubt I'd have known what a Tennessee VOLUNTEER or Michigan WOLVERINE was if one was right in front of me.

As for the purples, yeah, I probably should have figured those out. It was just a little too loose of a connection for me.

That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Sunday’s game if you need them.

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