Today’s NYT Connections Clue and Answers for Saturday, November 16

Looking for a clue to solve today’s November 16th Connections puzzle? If today’s Connections confused you, check out our selection of tips below.

Connections is a word puzzle game published daily by the New York Times (NYT), host of the hugely popular Wordle puzzle. Created daily by puzzler Wayne Liu, Connections presents you with a selection of 16 seemingly different words, and you must group them into four sets of four, with each group of four words sharing a common theme.

It’s a simple premise, but as many of us here know, relationships can sometimes be fiendishly complicated, filled to the brim with red herrings, misleading words, and little-known tidbits. If you’re having trouble solving today’s Connections puzzle, this guide will help you find the answers for Saturday, November 16, 2024.

Below we offer some carefully crafted hints and tips for today’s Connections, followed by four different groups, and finally, Connections itself, for those tired of wondering how it all fits together.

In this guide:

Relationship Tips for Saturday, November 16

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

Our connection tips for today:

• Yellow (the lightest): Things that prevent fluid from leaking.
• Green (light): Types of a certain accessory.
• Blue (medium): NCAA Division Members.
• Purple (the most difficult): All these words are coming after word for going from one place to another.
• Additional hint 1: “Wolverine” and “Robbery” belong to two different groups.
• Additional hint 2: “Volunteer” and “Cover” belong to two different groups.

If you’re looking for more Connections clues today to narrow down your answers, tap the spoiler text below to see one word from each group:

Yellow (the lightest):

COVER

Green (light):

DERBY

Blue (medium):

FAST

Purple (the most difficult):

COMMAND

What do the words Connections mean today?

Here are 16 Connections words for today:

Swindler	Cap	Alligator	Stamp
Beret	Wolverine	Commando	picture
Volunteer	derby	DOT	Cover
Fork	Snapback	Earlier	Bananas

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What are modern Connections groups?

If you need an even bigger clue to solve today’s Connections puzzle, below we reveal the four correct Connections groups – the themes that connect each set of four words in the Connections table.

Here are the Connections groups for today:

• Things that prevent leaks
• Types of headdresses
• Members of the college football team
• go ___

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

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Spoiler alert! Today’s Connections answer is yet to come!

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What are today’s Connections answers?

Here are the complete answers for today’s Connections puzzle for Saturday, November 16:

• Things that prevent leaks: Cover, cap, plug, seal
• Types of headdresses: Beret, Derby, DOT, Snapback
• Members of the college football team: Alligator, Early, Volunteer, Wolverine
• Go ___: Bananas, Commando, Figure, Robber

I just couldn’t see past the hats and Wolverine with Rogue today. I may have dropped the “Cap” a little early.

Congratulations if you got today’s Connections question right, with or without our handy hints above! And if you didn’t make it 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 is Connections?

Connections is one of the most popular daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owned by Wordle). The goal 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 example, the words “Huck,” “Nana,” “Peter,” and “Wendy” are all characters in Peter Pan. Or to take another example: “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go” and “Stick” are all words that usually come immediately before the word “Figure”.

Your job is to figure out what the themes are that unite the different words, but be careful because there are often red herring connections deliberately placed here to confuse you! To win the game, you must find all four connections without making 4 mistakes. After your fourth mistake, the game ends and the answer opens automatically.

Each of the four groups in the Connections daily puzzle also has a different color that shows how easy or difficult it is to find a Connection. These colors are yellow (the easiest), green (easy), blue (medium), and purple (the hardest).

That concludes today’s tutorial on how to solve the NYT Connections word puzzle. If you need help with Wordle, we’ve got a list for you, too past Wordle answersas well as Wordle clue and answer for Friday, November 15. You can also view our list the best starting words for Wordleor use our Wordle Solver tool to help you find the answer easily!