Today’s NYT Connections Tips and Answers for Tuesday, November 5th.

Looking for a clue to help you solve today’s Connections puzzle on November 5th? Keep reading for a full breakdown of the ins and outs of each Connections group you’ll encounter today.

Connections is a word puzzle game published every day by The New York Times (NYT), host of the endlessly popular Wardle puzzle. Created by daily puzzle creator Veena Liu, Connections presents you with a set of 16 seemingly different words and you have to group them into four sets of four words, where each group of four words has a common theme.

It’s a simple premise, but as many of us here know, Connections can be devilishly difficult at times, filled to the brim with red herrings, misleading words and obscure trivia. If you are struggling to solve today’s Connections puzzle, this guide will help you find the answers for Tuesday November 5, 2024.

Below we offer some thoughtful hints and tips for today’s Connections, and after that we reveal four different groups, and finally, Connections themselves answer the questions for those who are tired of wondering how it all fits together.

In this guide:

Communication Tips for Tuesday, November 5th.

Here’s a clue for each group of words in today’s Connections puzzle, plus a couple other clues to help you find the answer.

Our Connections tips for today:

• Yellow (simplest): Everything is soft to the touch.
• Green (Light): All these things have a protective coating.
• Blue (medium): Think about the move involving the green guy played by Mike Myers.
• Purple (Hardest): All of these words are preceded by another spell-related word.
• Extra hint 1: The turtle and the donkey are in different groups.
• Extra hint 2: Carpet and Kingdom are in the same group.

If you need more Connections clues today to help you narrow down your answers, tap the spoiler text below to see one word that belongs to each group:

Yellow (simplest):

Pipe cleaner

Green (Light):

Nut

Blue (medium):

Ogre

Purple (Hardest):

Marker

What are today’s Connections words?

Here are 16 linking words for today:

Caterpillar	Mollusk	Mushroom	Kingdom
Turtle	Peach	Egg	Pipe cleaner
Princess	Marker	Donkey	Carpet
Nut	Dragon	Fleece	Ogre

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What are Connections groups like today?

If you need an even bigger clue to solve today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll show you the four correct Connections groups—the themes that tie together each set of four words in the Connections grid.

Here are the Connections groups for today:

• Fuzzy Things
• Things with shells
• Figures from “Shrek”
• Magic ___

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

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Spoiler alert! Today’s Connections answer is coming!

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What are Connections’ answers today?

Here are the complete answers to today’s Connections puzzle for Tuesday, November 5th:

• Things that are fuzzy: Caterpillar, fleece, peach, pipe cleaner
• Items with shells: Clam, egg, nut, turtle
• Figures in “Shrek”: Donkey, Dragon, Ogre, Princess
• Magic ___: Carpet, Kingdom, Marker, Mushroom

Today’s connections are no easy task. What if you’ve never watched Shrek, for example? Even if you could guess all the words in this group just by associating them with the fantasy genre, it’s hard to see how “Kingdom” relates to “Marker.” The presence of Mushroom, Donkey, Princess and Turtle in today’s puzzle also made me think that one of the categories was Mario…

Congratulations if you answered today’s Connections answer correctly, with or without our helpful hints above! And if you didn’t succeed today, don’t worry—a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle.

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What are connections?

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

For example, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter” and “Wendy” are all symbols of Peter Pan. Or take another example: “Action”, “Pace”, “Walk” and “Stick” are words that usually appear before the word “Drawing”.

Your job is to figure out what the themes are that link the various words together, but be careful because most of the time, red herrings are deliberately inserted there to confuse you! To win the game you need to find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes. On the fourth error, the game ends and the answer is revealed automatically.

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

This concludes today’s guide on how to solve the NYT Connections word puzzle. If you need help with Wordle, we also provide you with our list past Wordle answersand also Wordle clue and answer for Monday, November 4th.. You can also check out our list best starting words for Wordleor use our Wordle Solution Tool to help you find the answer with ease!