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Need a hint for today’s Connections on Wednesday, 26th November? It’s not exactly easy to find common ground within the Connections puzzle’s word mesh. In fact, it’s usually a very complicated process, but if today’s puzzle is on the more difficult side, this guide will lend you a hand.
Whether you need hints, tips, or small spoilers, you’ll find them here. Let’s uncover the Connections answers!
In this guide:
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
APR
CAN
CFO
COULD
DEB
FLOW
GOD
IRA
JAN
KAT
MAR
MAY
MIGHT
SEC
SUE
TAB
How to play Connections
Connections is one of the most popular (and challenging) daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). The aim of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, where each group of four words has a common theme.
For instance, 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 which commonly come just before the word “Figure”.
Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the various words together – but be wary, because a lot of the time there are deceptive red herring connections placed purely to throw you off! To win the game, you have to find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is revealed automatically.
Each of the four groups in each day’s Connections puzzle is also assigned a different colour, which represents how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colours are: Yellow (Easiest), Green (Easy), Blue (Medium), and Purple (Hardest).
Click here to play today’s Connections puzzle!
Connections hint for Wednesday 26th November
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: “It’s possible.”
- Green: They’re people.
- Blue: See anything financial?
- Purple: Let’s turn them around.
- Extra hint 1: “Sue” and “May” are in different groups.
- Extra hint 2: Only two themes contain words of more than three letters.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: May
- Green: Deb
- Blue: Sec
- Purple: God
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!
What are today’s Connections groups?
If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four correct Connections groups – the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.
Here are the Connections groups for today:
- Yellow: Verbs Expressing Possibility
- Green: Women’s Nicknames
- Blue: Financial Abbreviations
- Purple: Backwards Animals
Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections answer lies ahead!
What is today’s Connections answer?
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Wednesday, 26th November:
- Yellow: Verbs Expressing Possibility (Can, Could, May, Might)
- Green: Women’s Nicknames (Deb, Jan, Kat, Sue)
- Blue: Financial Abbreviations (APR, CFO, IRA, SEC)
- Purple: Backwards Animals (Flow, God, Mar, Tab)
Here are the Connections answers for November 26. | Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT
I’ve been complaining about “hidden word” purple themes that were too easy in the past two days, so the Connections puzzle hit back with a “reversed word” theme that utterly confused me. Maybe you fared better, but I failed to see the dog, bat, wolf, and ram until I had almost no other words left.
Today’s blue Connections theme, on the other hand, forms a perfect example of a theme that can be solved by vague associations alone. I just put “looks like an abbreviation” together – simple and efficient! No need for any financial know-how.
The names might’ve been hard if the “false” group member, “may”, had not been in the yellow theme. I’m guessing most players put the yellow words together first, thus ruling out “may” straight away.
Congratulations if you got today’s Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy 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!
