Today’s NYT Connections Clues and Answers – Monday, November 4 (#512)

Looking for today’s Connections answers? Connections November 4 answers for puzzle #512 are a bit more difficult than yesterday’s puzzle because Connections Companion rate the difficulty of this puzzle 2.8 out of 5.

We update this article daily with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today’s answers. And if the clues aren’t enough, you’ll find all 4 answers below with category names and matching words. Also, we’re including thoughts on yesterday’s puzzle, #511, in case you’re reading this in a different time zone.

Spoilers ahead for Connections #512. Read on only if you want to know today’s Connections answers.

Also, visit our how to play NYT Connections a guide with tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.

Today’s Connections answer is clues to help you solve it

Unlike our guide to today’s Wordle answerwhere we recommend the best Wordle starters as your strategy, solving the connections relies on identifying connecting categories among the 16 words. The difficulty level of each category is indicated by color; yellow is the easiest to group and purple is the most difficult. When you’ve made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.

If you need hints to solve the groups, here are the topics of each group in order of difficulty:

Yellow: Equip
Green: Being, character, ego, self
Blue: Furniture
Violet: Words with apostrophes are deleted

These clues will help you at least a little to find the answers to today’s Connections questions. If not, then you can read on for more tips; or, if you just want to know the answer, scroll further down.

Here’s a bigger hint: Today’s puzzle is disarmingly literal, it cannot be embellished. Add a little feng shui to your mind palace and you’ll be fine.

Today’s Connections Answers

So what are today’s Connections answers for game #512?

Drum roll please…

Equip: Finishing, equipment, provision, inventory
Individuality: Being, character, ego, self
Furniture: Chest of drawers, console, dressing table, wardrobe
Words with removed apostrophes: Cant, id, shell, were

At first I accidentally solved the purple category, but not before I tried three times to associate Ego and Id with whatever other words I remembered from psych 101. Turns out it was a trap and I fell hard for it . Instead of thinking about Kant, I should look more closely at Kant and what is missing. I thought the Connections Crew definitely wouldn’t What diabolical… and I am being corrected.

All that’s left is Ego to combine all the other egocentric words I’ve tried to use before, like Being, Character, and, well, I, to complete the green category.

I almost tried Vanity among them, but stopped at the last second when I realized that Wardrobe was another clue. Thinking about the furniture, the chest of drawers and the console stood out quite easily.

Thus, the simplest category remained, as today’s rote filling with decoration, equipment, provisions and supplies.

Yesterday’s Connections Answers

Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #511, which had a difficulty rating of 2.2 out of 5, according to Connections Companion.

I started yesterday’s puzzle with the blue category. A lifetime ago, I spent my first year in college studying law, so when I noticed Hearing, I wasn’t fooled by the Connection Crew’s trick of muddying the waters with other sensory words like Touch and Sensation. Once I searched for more laws, inquiries, proceedings and court stood out easily.

I thought that these clues, like Touch and Feel, must have something in common with each other, but it turned out to be another dead end. Instead, “Touching” was in today’s yellow category, along with other touching adjectives like “Touching,” “Sweet,” and “Gentle.” Meanwhile, “Feeling” fell into the “green” category, along with other ways to describe speculation, such as “Guess,” “Impression,” and “Sense.”

It stayed purple as today’s pour. At first I thought this category might be some kind of intelligibility/cents pun with Money and Listening among its ranks, but the reality turned out to be much simpler.