Youll have a BALL solving this one!

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Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers.

NYT Connections board for November 11, 2023: KICK, BALL, BOOM, ROOM, SHORT, CLUE, SPARE, BLAST, DOLLY, GRIP, LIFE, LIGHT, RIOT, TRIPOD, THIN, LENS.

And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers.

Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need!

Does todays Connections game require any special knowledge?

Green category - Lets party!

Blue category - The best boy would know about these.

Purple category - Things youd say while rolling your eyes.

Does todays Connections game involve any wordplay?

Theres a fill-in-the-blank for purple again.

Ready to hear the answers?

Keep scrolling if you want a little more help.

BEWARE: Spoilers follow for todays Connections puzzle!

Were about to give away some of the answers.

Scroll slowly if you dont want the whole thing spoiled.

(The full solution is a bit farther down.)

What are the ambiguous words in todays Connections?

A BOOM can be a loud noise, or a horizontal support for a microphone.

BLAST and BOOM are in separate categories today!

What are the categories in todays Connections?

Yellow: SPARSE/LACKING

Green: FUN TIME

Blue: FILMMAKING EQUIPMENT

Purple: GET A ____!

DOUBLE BEWARE: THE SOLUTION IS BELOW

Ready to learn the answers to todays Connections puzzle?

I give them all away below.

What are the yellow words in todays Connections?

The yellow grouping is considered to be the most straightforward.

What are the green words in todays Connections?

The green grouping is supposed to be the second-easiest.

What are the blue words in todays Connections?

The blue grouping is the second-hardest.

What are the purple words in todays Connections?

The purple grouping is considered to be the hardest.

The theme for todays purple category is GET A ____!

and the words are: CLUE, GRIP, LIFE, ROOM.

Im not sure if GRIP is a piece of camera equipment as well.

With LIGHT removed, my cinematic apparatus now includes TRIPOD, LENS, DOLLY, andaha!BOOM.

Whats up with GRIP then?

Finally, weve got some party words: RIOT, BALL, BLAST, and KICK.

Im not familiar with that last one, but I get the idea.

Youll 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.

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, youll get a chance to loop back and try.

You win when youve correctly identified all four groups.

But if you make four mistakes before you finish, the game ends and the answers are revealed.

Expect to see overlapping groups.

So dont hit submit until youve confirmed that your group of four containsonlythose four things.

If youre stuck, another strategy is to look at the words that seem to havenoconnection to the others.

Check back tomorrow for the next puzzle!