Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, November 8

Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on November 8? Read on, fearless wordsmith! Our selection of tips below will help you navigate the Connections council process with ease.

Connections is a word puzzle game published every day by the New York Times (NYT), host of the endlessly popular Word puzzle. Created every day by puzzle creator Wyna Liu, Connections presents you with a selection of 16 seemingly disparate words, and you have to group them into four sets of four, with each group of four words having a common theme.

It’s a simple premise, but as many of us here know, connections can sometimes be fiendishly difficult, filled to the brim with red herrings, misleading words, and little-known tidbits. If you’re having trouble solving today’s Connections puzzle, this guide will help you find the answers by Friday, November 8, 2024.

Below we offer some carefully curated hints and clues for today’s Connections, and then we reveal the four different groups, and finally the Connections answers itself for those tired of wondering how it all fits together.

In this guide:

Connection tips for Friday, November 8

Here’s a hint for each of the phrases in today’s Connections puzzle, plus a few more Connections clues to help you find the answer.

Our Connections tips for today are:

• Yellow (easiest): Shenanigans.
• Green (easy): Green things that taste good on burgers.
• Blue (medium): Only for adults.
• Purple (most difficult): These can all be cut in some way.
• Additional tip 1: Blue does not refer to a color; it has a more mature meaning here.
• Additional tip 2: Deck and Mustard are in the same group.

If you’re looking for more Connections tips today to help you narrow down the answers, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word associated with each group:

Yellow (easiest):

Antique

Green (easy):

Pickles

Blue (medium):

Spicy

Purple (most difficult):

Cheese

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What are today’s Connections words?

Here are the 16 Connections words for today:

What are the current Connections groups?

If you need an even bigger clue to unravel today’s Connections puzzle, below we reveal the four correct Connections groups: the themes that connect each set of four words in the Connections grid.

Here are the Connections groups for today:

• Escapade
• Types of pickles
• Bold
• Cut the ___

Now that you know the themes for the different Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve them! If not, see below for the full answer.

Spoiler warning! Today’s answer to Connections is ahead!

What are today’s Connections answers?

Here are the full answers to today’s Connections puzzle on Friday, November 8:

• Escapade: Antique, Caper, Exploit, Stunt
• Types of pickles: Dill, kosher, sour, sweet
• Bold: Mature, Blue, Spicy, Suggestive
• Cut the ___: Cheese, string, deck, mustard

I found the Purple group of words a bit unclear, as always. I don’t really know anyone these days who says, “Cut the mustard.” I enjoyed the pickle group though!

Congratulations if you got today’s Connections answer right, with or without the help of our helpful tips above! And if you didn’t succeed today, don’t worry: a new Connections puzzle will appear every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle.

What are connections?

Connections is one of the most popular daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Word). The goal of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, with each group of four words having a common theme.

For example, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter” and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or to take another example, ‘Action’, ‘Ballpark’, ‘Go’ and ‘Stick’ are all words that usually come right before the word ‘Figure’.

Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the different words – but be wary, as often distracting connections are deliberately put in to throw you off! To win the game, you must find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game ends and the answer is automatically revealed.

Each of the four groups in each day’s Connection Puzzle is also assigned a different color, indicating how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colors are: yellow (easiest), green (easy), blue (medium) and purple (hardest).

That concludes today’s guide on how to solve the NYT Connections word puzzle. If you’re looking for help with Wordle, you’ll also find our list of previous Wordle answersas well as the Wordle hint and answer for Thursday, November 7. You can also check out our list of the best starter words for Wordleor use ours Wordle Solver tool to help you find the answer easily!