Today's puzzle won't break your brain if you're thinking clearly.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for November 15 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,253. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,252, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.
Alternatively, visit our how to play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.
What is Connections
Solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.
Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Today's Connection Grid and Words
- Jet
- Travel
- Sleek
- Record
- Registry
- Archive
- Inclined
- Dress Code
- Rapscallion
- All-Time
- RSVP
- Cartesian
- Historic
- Astral
- Octonion
- Unprecedented
We have the Connections categories below, but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Goat
- 🟩 Green: Knot
- 🟦 Blue: Fly
- 🟪 Purple: Mom's love them
Today's Connections Group Hints
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Unmatched
- 🟩 Green: Wedding Website Sections
- 🟦 Blue: ___ Plane
- 🟪 Purple: Ending in Vegetables in the Allium Family
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Today's Connections answers
The Connections answers on November 14 for puzzle #1,252 are easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 1.3 out of 5
- 🟨 Unmatched: All-Time, Historic, Record, Unprecedented
- 🟩 Wedding Website Sections: Dress Code, Registry, RSVP, Travel
- 🟦 ___ Plane: Astral, Cartesian, Inclined, Jet
- 🟪 Ending in Vegetables in the Allium Family: Archive, Octonion, Rapscallion, Sleek
As seems to be the case when I cover Connections for Scott and Alyse, I went out of order with the colors, but I still got through the puzzle.
It took me a while to get the first piece of the puzzle today, which makes me question how the Companion came up with such a low rating. Eventually, I managed to sneak my way into the yellow answer and then quickly followed up with the purple section.
From there, I was stumped again, sitting at yellow and purple for some time. Eventually, I connected the wedding pieces together; though travel felt a little out of place, it made the most sense of the available options, so I gave it a try and ended up being right.
Last, I locked in the blue section, which was all that was left after locking the other three sections.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Cutting-Edge: Advanced, Foremost, Modern, Progressive
- 🟩 Locations for an Institution: Campus, Center, Complex, Facility
- 🟦 Strategy Board Games: Chess, Go, Othello, Stratego
- 🟪 Baby Gear With First Letter Changed: Battle, Marriage, Mottle, Trib
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,252, which had a difficulty rating of 2.0 out of 5.
As you can see, I went all kinds of out of order today. And I'm not going to lie, it took me quite a while to figure out the blue and get the puzzle rolling. I have never heard of the game Go, but it sounded like it could be a game, so I guessed it along with the other three and happened to be right.
From there, I registered the building types quickly, which the game officially called Locations for an Institution.
Next, it was a matter of scanning through the eight remaining words to find four that connected. After a few brief moments, I spotted the cutting-edge connection and locked it in.
That left just the purple, which I have to admit I would have never figured out were it not the only four pieces of the puzzle left.
