Need a hint for today’s Connections on Friday, 28th November? Although it would be incredibly impressive, nobody expects you to solve every daily Connections puzzle without any help. In fact, it’s probably impossible to do so anyway, so let’s just get you a bit of help whenever you need it.
Use some hints and give it a retry, or look up the full Connections solution below.
In this guide:
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
LOUDNESS
INTONATION
BEAT
BEST
FAIR
FRET
JUST
PEG
PICKUP
PROPER
RHYTHM
RIGHT
STRESS
STRING
TAKE
WORST
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 Friday 28th November
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: This is a very “correct” theme.
- Green: This theme concerns the results of a battle.
- Blue: You’ll need these to play a certain kind of music.
- Purple: Think about pronunciation.
- Extra hint 1: “Right” and “best” are in different groups.
- Extra hint 2: “Rhythm” and “beat” are in different groups.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Right
- Green: Take
- Blue: String
- Purple: Loudness
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: Fitting
- Green: Achieve Victory Over
- Blue: Parts Of An Electric Guitar
- Purple: Phonetic Elements Of Speech
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 Friday, 28th November:
- Yellow: Fitting (Fair, Just, Proper, Right)
- Green: Achieve Victory Over (Beat, Best, Take, Worst)
- Blue: Parts Of An Electric Guitar (Fret, Peg, Pickup, String)
- Purple: Phonetic Elements Of Speech (Intonation, Loudness, Rhythm, Stress)
Here are the Connections answers for November 28. | Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT
This is the second or maybe even the third Connections puzzle in a row that caused me to stare at the words for a few minutes before finally finding the first theme. In hindsight, that yellow theme should’ve been super obvious, but I just got distracted by “best” and then focussed on the green theme instead.
Instead of fixing yellow, I was mixing “negative” words such as stress, worst, beat, fret, etc. To my surprise, however, I actually discovered the guitar theme – I usually always miss those as I don’t play guitar. That said, the only clue I found was “peg” and “string”, so despite knowing about the guitar theme, I didn’t actually solve it.
Rhythm, loudness, and intonation was another fairly easy connection, but since I was thinking of music, I had trouble adding the final word, “stress”.
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!
