Today's Connections Hints & Answers For November 14, 2024 (Puzzle #522)

Finding the right balance and getting into the groove of any Connections puzzle can be quite difficult. However, we have all the tips you need to help you find the rhythm and stick with it. Instead of feeling exhausted by today’s puzzle, we want you to feel energized and refreshed as you ride on the adrenaline of a close victory. To help you achieve this, here is everything you need to see it through.

If you are looking for another adrenaline-based puzzle game, the daily Letter Boxed puzzle is one to try. It has everything you need to get addicted to it, with a challenging premise and just enough success with every guess to make you think you are close to the answer. This can mean sitting there for hours as you attempt to get just that much closer to the answer every time, but there is also nothing sweeter than a victory well-earned at the hand of this challenging game.

Today's Connections Category Hints

NOVEMBER 14 #522

Instead of depleting your guesses without any success, we can help guide you there with a few key clues. Today’s puzzle has fairly separate categories with distinct words, which means that it can get easier once you have those few tidbits. Sometimes this can make it harder if there’s a lot of overlap, but luckily that is not the case today.

• One category is about slowly getting rid of any excess stores
• One category is about how you act when you are really getting into the rhythm
• One category is about words you will likely see all close together on the same piece of special paper
• One category is about different varieties of the same sweet substance

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If you still feel the need for some extra guidance, we have that covered too. There are slight spoilers for the category names in the box below, with full spoilers to come in the next section.

	DEPLETE
	PLAY MUSIC WITH PASSION
	WORDS ON A RESTAURANT RECEIPT
	FORMS OF SUGAR

Today's Connections Answers

NOVEMBER 14 #522

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

This category is something I feel a lot, so it was not hard to put it together. Sometimes, a certain day or event can feel like it has fully DRAINed your excess reserves of energy if you had anything to begin with. Whether you use the words EMPTY, EXHAUST, or SAP instead, everyone likely knows what that feels like. However, we try to make the best of it even so, and taking a little time away from everything else to play a short game like this can renew your energy when you need it to.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

If you are feeling like you are exhausted, sometimes this activity can also lift your spirits. Music has a weird way of moving us, especially when we feel numb or sad otherwise. But if you let yourself ROCK out to a music session, it can turn your whole mood and day around. That has been the case for me many times, although I do not do the actual “playing” as much anymore. It is hard to have a JAM session when all you have is a clarinet by yourself - although it is not impossible!

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Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

If you have ever eaten out, these words will be quite familiar to you. TIP might be a little less familiar to you if you are not American, but the rest of the words and lines will all still be there. It is a nice reminder that you got to eat a nice meal cooked by someone else, but also a sad reminder of how much it cost to do so. And you wrap it all up with a nice SIGNATURE to say you approved of it, or at least that you approve the bill.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

I am not sure I have ever come across something called sugar GRAIN before, but as my grandma is quite the proficient baker I have come across everything else. If you want something that is sweet and yummy, you will have to add some kind of sugar into it - often in POWDER form. Grandma’s brownies are to die for, so you will want to add in as much sugar as the recipe allows for maximum potential.

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Released June 12, 2023

Developer(s) The New York Times Company

Publisher(s) The New York Times Company

ESRB e

Platform(s) Web Browser , Mobile