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

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

NYT Connections board for November 5, 2024: CATERPILLAR, CLAM, MUSHROOM, KINGDOM, TURTLE, PEACH, EGG, PIPE CLEANER, PRINCESS, MARKER, DONKEY, CARPET, NUT, DRAGON, FLEECE, OGRE.

Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need!

Green category - They also have a similar coatingbut a hard one.

Blue category - From an animated, satirical fairy tale movie featuring a swamp.

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 further down.)

A TURTLE has a physical characteristic that makes it relatively unique in the animal kingdom.

Think about what that might be and youll have an easier time finding its friends on the board.

(Ditto for CATERPILLAR.)

If youre familiar with popular animated movies, you should be able to get todays blue category relatively quickly.

What are the categories in todays Connections?

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.

At the very least, I need to eliminate several of those words to see whats left.

DRAGON, OGRE, DONKEY, and PRINCESS might all go together as characters fromShrek.

Oh, and TURTLE, EGG, CLAM, and NUT all go together as things with shells.

That leaves MARKER, MUSHROOM, CARPET, and KINGDOM.

MARKER and MUSHROOM are both things with caps, but that doesnt work with CARPET or KINGDOM.

Oh, they all go with the word magic.

Magic MARKER, magic MUSHROOM, magic CARPET, and magic KINGDOM.

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 hit it one more time.

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!