{"id":1205691,"date":"2023-11-22T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1205691"},"modified":"2023-11-22T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T02:00:00","slug":"todays-nyt-connections-hints-and-answer-for-thursday-november-23-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1205691","title":{"rendered":"Today&#039;s NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Thursday, November 23, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time to talk TURKEY about this food-themed puzzle: it\u2019s not as food-themed as it looks at first glance. If you\u2019re looking for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/games\/connections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\">Connections<\/a> answer for Thanksgiving day (Thursday, November 23, 2023), read on\u2014I\u2019ll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solutions to all four categories. Along the way, I\u2019ll explain the meanings of the trickier words and we\u2019ll learn how everything fits together. <strong>Beware, there are spoilers below for November 23, NYT Connections #165! <\/strong>Read on if you want some hints (and then the answer) to today\u2019s Connections game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day, <a href=\"https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/entertainment\/connections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>bookmark this page<\/u><\/a>. You can also find our past hints there as well, in case you want to know what you missed in a previous puzzle.<\/p>\n<p>Below, I\u2019ll give you some oblique hints at today\u2019s Connections answers. And farther down the page, I\u2019ll reveal the themes and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need!<\/p>\n<div class=\"eloquent-imagery-image\">\n<div class=\"flex justify-center\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border border-gray-100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/images-1.fill_.size_2000x1149.v1700518655.png\" alt=\"Connections board for November 23, 2023: CURRY, BOUQUET, TURKEY, TURNOVER, PIE, BIRD, POLAND, PARFAIT, RAPPORT, JORDAN, TART, TUNISIA, JAMES, JAPAN, RAGOUT, PASTY.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1149\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"mt-2\">\n                            <span class=\"mt-2 font-akshar text-sm tracking-wide\" \/><br \/>\n                                        <span class=\"text-xs inline-block text-gray-600\">Credit: Connections\/NYT<\/span>\n                    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p \/>\n<h2>Does today\u2019s Connections game require any special knowledge?<\/h2>\n<p>If you know the flags of countries around the world and the names of certain sports icons\u2026well, good luck anyway, this is a toughie. RAGOUT, by the way, is a French word meaning a simmered stew. It\u2019s a relative of rag\u00f9, an Italian word often applied to meat sauce served on pasta.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Hints for the themes in today\u2019s Connections puzzle<\/h2>\n<p>Here are some spoiler-free hints for the groupings in today\u2019s Connections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Yellow category &#8211; This category is more than half baked!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Green category &#8211; Think French.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Blue category &#8211; World travelers will have an advantage here.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Purple category &#8211; These guys are shooting hoops.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Does today\u2019s Connections game involve any wordplay?<\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s one category based on the spelling\/pronunciation of the words. Another relates to names.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ready to hear the answers? Keep scrolling if you want a little more help.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p \/>\n<h2>BEWARE: Spoilers follow for today\u2019s Connections puzzle!<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019re about to give away some of the answers. Scroll slowly if you don\u2019t want the whole thing spoiled. (The full solution is a bit further down.)<\/p>\n<h3>What are the ambiguous words in today\u2019s Connections?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>PASTY can be an adjective meaning that somebody looks pale; it\u2019s also a hand pie traditionally made for miners in England, constructed so you can hold the crust with your filthy, arsenic-tainted hands. (Today I learned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornishpastyco.com\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\"><u>they are traditionally made with sweet filling at one end<\/u><\/a>; you eat that side last, as dessert.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>A PARFAIT is a dish made by layering something creamy with fruit or other fillings. A PARFAIT made with yogurt and granola can let you believe you are eating a healthy breakfast; a Peanut Buster PARFAIT made with ice cream, peanuts, and fudge was my favorite Dairy Queen order as a kid. The word comes from French and means \u201cperfect.\u201d The T is silent, just like in BOUQUET.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>TURKEY is only a BIRD today on your Thanksgiving table. In this puzzle, it refers to the country (properly spelled T\u00fcrkiye, but close enough).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>CURRY is another simmered dish, and you can also CURRY favor or use a CURRY comb to groom a horse. Forget all of that today, though, and think of basketball player Steph CURRY.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p \/>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mt-8 w-full max-w-4xl\">\n<div id=\"video-container-WolBGRQenN4\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>What are the categories in today\u2019s Connections?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Yellow: FOODS WITH CRUSTS<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Green: ENDING IN A SILENT \u201cT\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Blue: COUNTRIES WITH RED AND WHITE FLAGS<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Purple: N.B.A. GREATS<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>DOUBLE BEWARE: THE SOLUTION IS BELOW<\/h2>\n<p>Ready to learn the answers to today\u2019s Connections puzzle? I give them all away below.<\/p>\n<h3>What are the yellow words in today\u2019s Connections?<\/h3>\n<p>The yellow grouping is considered to be the most straightforward. The theme for today\u2019s yellow group is FOODS WITH CRUSTS and the words are: PASTY, PIE, TART, TURNOVER.<\/p>\n<h3>What are the green words in today\u2019s Connections?<\/h3>\n<p>The green grouping is supposed to be the second-easiest. The theme for today\u2019s green category is ENDING IN A SILENT \u201cT\u201d and the words are: BOUQUET, PARFAIT, RAGOUT, RAPPORT.<\/p>\n<h3>What are the blue words in today\u2019s Connections?<\/h3>\n<p>The blue grouping is the second-hardest. The theme for today\u2019s blue category is COUNTRIES WITH RED AND WHITE FLAGS and the words are: JAPAN, POLAND, TUNISIA, TURKEY.<\/p>\n<h3>What are the purple words in today\u2019s Connections?<\/h3>\n<p>The purple grouping is considered to be the hardest. The theme for today\u2019s purple category is N.B.A. GREATS and the words are: BIRD, CURRY, JAMES, JORDAN.<\/p>\n<h2>How I solved today\u2019s Connections<\/h2>\n<p>I love all the food words for a food themed holiday! My eye went straight to PIE, TART, and TURNOVER, and it only took a second to realize the last one was PASTY (not pastry), a British hand pie. \ud83d\udfe8<\/p>\n<p>I puzzled over the rest for a long time. RAGOUT and CURRY are both foods made of a simmered mixture of ingredients. JAMES and JORDAN could both be names. TURKEY was one of five countries I saw on the board. Finally, I asked myself \u201cwhat does RAPPORT have to do with anything?\u201d and saw that it shared a silent T with BOUQUET, RAGOUT, and PARFAIT. \ud83d\udfe9<\/p>\n<p>Still, I was stuck. I still had my five countries, and couldn\u2019t make sense of the other three words. Aha! Larry BIRD and Michael JORDAN are both legendary basketball players; they go with Steph CURRY and LeBron JAMES. \ud83d\udfea Finally, I had four countries: TURKEY, POLAND, TUNISIA, and JAPAN. \ud83d\udfe6<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<pre class=\"back border-2 border-gray-400 bg-gray-100 p-4 text-black shadow-md\">Connections \nPuzzle #165\n\ud83d\udfe8\ud83d\udfe8\ud83d\udfe8\ud83d\udfe8\n\ud83d\udfe9\ud83d\udfe9\ud83d\udfe9\ud83d\udfe9\n\ud83d\udfea\ud83d\udfea\ud83d\udfea\ud83d\udfea\n\ud83d\udfe6\ud83d\udfe6\ud83d\udfe6\ud83d\udfe6<\/pre>\n<h2>How to play Connections<\/h2>\n<p>I have a full <a href=\"https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/try-connections-if-you-re-bored-with-wordle-1850534478?rev=1693236802678\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>guide to playing Connections<\/u><\/a>, but here\u2019s a refresher on the rules:<\/p>\n<p>First, find the Connections game either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/games\/connections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\">on the New York Times website<\/a> or in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/crosswords\/apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\">Crossword app<\/a>. You\u2019ll see a game board with 16 tiles, each with one word or phrase. Your job is to select a group of four tiles that have something in common. Often they are all the same type of thing (for example: RAIN, SLEET, HAIL, and SNOW are all types of wet weather) but sometimes there is wordplay involved (for example, BUCKET, GUEST, TOP TEN, and WISH are all types of <em>lists<\/em>: bucket list, guest list, and so on).<\/p>\n<p>Select four items and hit the Submit button. If you guessed correctly, the category and color will be revealed. (Yellow is easiest, followed by green, then blue, then purple.) If your guess was incorrect, you\u2019ll get a chance to try again.<\/p>\n<p>You win when you\u2019ve correctly identified all four groups. But if you make four mistakes before you finish, the game ends and the answers are revealed.<\/p>\n<h2>How to win Connections<\/h2>\n<p>The most important thing to know to win Connections is that the groupings are designed to be tricky. Expect to see overlapping groups. For example, one puzzle seemed to include six breakfast foods: BACON, EGG, PANCAKE, OMELET, WAFFLE, and CEREAL. But BACON turned out to be part of a group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.francis-bacon.com\/paintings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\">painters<\/a> along with CLOSE, MUNCH, and WHISTLER, and EGG was in a group of things that come by the dozen (along with JUROR, ROSE, and MONTH). So don\u2019t hit \u201csubmit\u201d until you\u2019ve confirmed that your group of four contains <em>only<\/em> those four things.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re stuck, another strategy is to look at the words that seem to have <em>no<\/em> connection to the others. If all that comes to mind when you see WHISTLER is the painting nicknamed <a href=\"https:\/\/philamuseum.org\/calendar\/exhibition\/the-artists-mother-whistler-philadelphia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\">\u201cWhistler\u2019s Mother,\u201d<\/a> you might be on to something. When I solved that one, I ended up googling whether there was a painter named Close, because Close didn\u2019t fit any of the obvious themes, either.<\/p>\n<p>Another way to win when you\u2019re stuck is, obviously, to read a few helpful hints\u2013which is why we share these pointers every day. Check back tomorrow for the next puzzle!<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: LifeHacker &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/entertainment\/nyt-connections-answer-today-november-23-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Today&#8217;s NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Thursday, November 23, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time to talk TURKEY about this food-themed puzzle: it\u2019s not as food-themed as it looks at first glance. 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