Sunday, November 30 Clues And Answers (#903)

Today’s Connections

Credit: NYT / Erik Kain

November has gone by in the blink of an eye. It’s the last day of November. December is knocking at the gate. Soon enough, Christmas will be upon us. Winter is coming, Connectioneers, and sooner than I’d like. In just over a month, we’ll all have to start writing 2026 on everything. Sigh.

In any case, if you’re looking for help with today’s NYT Connections, you’ve come to the right place. Below, you’ll find some extra hints to help you guess the Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple groups, as well as the categories and, finally, the answers.

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Alright, Connections time!

If you’re looking for Saturday’s Connections guide, it’s right here.

How To Solve Today’s NYT Connections

How To Play Connections

Connections is the second-most popular NYT Games puzzle game outside of the main crossword itself, and an extremely fun, free offering that will get your brain moving every day. Play it right here.

The goal is to take a group of 16 words and find links between four pairs of four of them. They could be specific categories of terms, or they could be little world puzzles where words may come before or after them you need to figure out. And they get more complicated from there.

There is only one set of right answers for this, and you only get a certain number of tries so you can’t just spam around until you find something. There are difficulty tiers coded by color, which will usually go from yellow, blue/green to purple as difficulty increases, so know that going in and when you start linking them together.

You pick the four words you think are linked and either you will get a solve and a lit up row that shows you how you were connected. If you’re close, it will tell you that you’re one away. Again, four mistakes you lose, but if you want to know the answers without failing, either come here, or delete your web cookies and try again. If you want to play more puzzles, you can get an NYT Games subscription to access the full archives of all past puzzles.

NYT Connections Hints And Answers – Sunday, November 30

These are the hints that are laid out on the puzzle board itself, but after that, we will get into spoiler territory with some hints and eventually the answers. First, here are today’s Connections words:

• WHISTLEBLEW
• MISS
• COCKATIEL
• SPARROW
• BEAR
• HOOK
• TURKEY
• UNREAD
• SWALLOW
• SILVER
• STAND
• BUST
• LEMON
• LUFFY
• CAMEROON
• STOMACH

Hints for the Connections groups today are:

• 🟡Yellow group – You can deal with it.
• 🔵Blue group – Blackbeard is among their company.
• 🟢Green group – A real dud.
• 🟣Purple group – Maroon, Teal, Red, Blue

What Are Today’s Connections Groups?

Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today:

• 🟡Yellow group – Tolerate
• 🔵Blue group – Fictional Pirates
• 🟢Green group – Flop
• 🟣Purple group – Ending in color homophones

What Are Today’s Connections Answers?

The full-on answers are below for each group, finally inserting the four words in each category. Spoilers follow if you do not want to get this far. The Connections answers are:

• 🟡Yellow group – Bear, Stand, Stomach, Swallow
• 🔵Blue group – Hook, Luffy, Silver, Sparrow
• 🟢Green group – Bust, Lemon, Miss, Turkey
• 🟣Purple group – Cameroon, Cockatiel, Unread, Whistleblew

I’m not really surprised that I came up with the Blue group first. Pirates have always been fascinating to me, and it was pretty clear – once I’d tried to lump Sparrow, Turkey, Swallow and Cockatiel as birds – that Hook, Silver and Sparrow were all fictional pirates. It took me a bit to piece Monkey D. Luffy of One Piece together with the others. Anime is not my forte.

The Green words were pretty clear after this. Thankfully this Connections was not a Bust or a Turkey. I didn’t Miss. A Lemon is a bit of a different kind of Flop, of course. It’s something that doesn’t work, like a vehicle you purchase that has a lot of problems. Oh well, I’ll allow it.

At this point, I was a little lost before rooting out the Yellow Group. I couldn’t Bear to lose, after all. I can’t Stand it when I fail at a NYT Games puzzle. It’s a hard pill to Swallow. At least today I didn’t have to Stomach defeat.

Which left me with Purple, and because I really couldn’t find a connection here, I just plugged in the words to find out. Silly me, these all had color homophones tucked into the end of the words. It’s so obvious after the fact.

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