NYT Connections today hints and answers for Monday, December 2 (game #540)

Date:
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:02:00 +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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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 clues.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Wordle hints and answers , Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those
too.

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

Today's NYT Connections words are TRUMPET CROQUET CROCODILE PAPER ALLIGATOR HAIR WHAC-A-MOLE HERALD POLO PLAYER BROADCAST LAUREL XYLOPHONE CARPENTRY
VIDEO SWOOSH DECLARE NYT Connections today (game #540) - hint #1 - group
hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: Tell everyone Green: Tent-pitching is another Blue: It's close to your chest Purple: Blank [thing that holds other things together]

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 #540) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: ANNOUNCE GREEN: THINGS INVOLVING MALLETS BLUE: ICON EMBROIDERED ON A POLO SHIRT
PURPLE: ___ CLIP

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #540) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #540, are YELLOW: ANNOUNCE
BROADCAST, DECLARE, HERALD, TRUMPET GREEN: THINGS INVOLVING MALLETS
CARPENTRY, CROQUET, WHAC-A-MOLE, XYLOPHONE BLUE: ICON EMBROIDERED ON A POLO SHIRT CROCODILE, LAUREL, POLO PLAYER, SWOOSH PURPLE: ___ CLIP ALLIGATOR,
HAIR, PAPER, VIDEO My rating: Moderate My score: 2 mistakes

I got a bit caught up on a couple of groups today, but once I'd entangled
them this wasn't so bad.

Case in point: the green group, which I figured could be either things you
hit with a hammer / need a hammer for, with CROQUET, WHAC-A-MOLE, POLO
PLAYER, XYLOPHONE and CARPENTRY all qualifying.

I had too many, though, so after some internal debate decided that you don't use a hammer to hit a polo player (unless you are a very bad person), so if
it was 'Things which involve you hitting something with a hammer', you might have XYLOPHONE and WHAC-A-MOLE and CARPENTRY and CROQUET. I went with that in the end and it was right. Well, mostly, the actual answer was THINGS INVOLVING MALLETS. But close enough.

Similarly, with blue I had in mind something to do with logos, but put ALLIGATOR in place of CROCODILE so lost a couple of guesses there. Clearing
up yellow first helped, because it removed more answers, and left me with
ICON EMBROIDERED ON A POLO SHIRT, with CROCODILE, LAUREL, POLO PLAYER and SWOOSH but no alligator.

That featured instead in purple, which I actually would have got even if I hadn't solved it by default; the fairly straightforward ___ CLIP was the solution here.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Sunday, 1 December, game #539) YELLOW: SANCTUARY HAVEN, PORT, RETREAT, SHELTER GREEN FOOTBALL GEAR CLEATS, HELMET, JERSEY, PADS BLUE: CANDY NAMES CHARMS, KINDER, WONKA, YORK PURPLE: FREE ___ BIRD, FALLIN, SOLO, WILLY 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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