Today's Connections Hints & Answers For November 22, 2024 (Puzzle #530) (2024)

If you feel the need to pick up some slack on your Connections puzzle today, don’t be shy about taking some hints from us. There were some tricky words in this puzzle, but having a better idea of what the categories are and what some hints are for dealing with them will give you a path forward. Don’t wait for the puzzle to tell you you are wrong, instead, beat it the first time through.

If you are hoping to spend a lot more time puzzling today, check out the daily Password Game puzzle. It will take more time to solve than some of the NYT ones, and you will have to solve mini-puzzles along the way in order to get to a final answer. Each rule is like its own game, and you will have to figure out how to solve for all of them in order to win the game and get a new password.

Today's Connections Category Hints

NOVEMBER 22 #530

Once you have started on a puzzle it can be hard to see the forests for the trees. In this case, the words are the trees and the categories are the forests. Often I find myself staring at the trees and not seeing the bigger picture. If that is you in today’s puzzle, you will want to use a few hints to help you see from a slightly different perspective. That can often make all the difference in the world, and to find that out for yourself, take a look at these clues:

• One category is about getting something many people want whether its good or bad
• One category is four different words used to describe the phenomenon of having multiple ways to look at something
• One category is about computer programs that have become increasingly popular
• One category is about four different titles that all end in the same word not shown in the puzzle

Get any further assistance you need from the following spoilers. You will see the category names first, followed by the answers from each category listed in order.

	PUBLICITY
	POINT OF VIEW
	WORK COMMUNICATION PLATFORMS
	"___ ISLAND"

Today's Connections Answers

NOVEMBER 22 #530

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

This one did feel like the easy category today, which is not always the case. However, today it felt like this category was simply crying for ATTENTION. In some ways this can be good or bad, as often I get very excited that I finished off one category fast, only to get stumped as I look at the remaining words. However, it is still good to get four answers out of your way so that you do not overthink it, and instead you can finish off the puzzle without that unnecessary mess in your life.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

Different PERSPECTIVES are often the only way people are able to achieve something big, as multiple ANGLES are needed to get the full picture. It is likely why guides like this work, as you can not only have your point of view on the puzzle but my own as well. Having a LENS through which to view something often makes it a lot easier to follow, and you can see more details. In Connections, that makes it easier for you to win.

Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

The weird year that was 2020 was also the year of the rise of ZOOM, among these other work platforms. While SLACK and TEAMS had been around for a while, and MEET had some traction before that, it was not until that year that they suddenly became what we used the most for nearly everything. Now, it is so much part of my life that I got this category almost immediately after the yellow one and without thinking about it much if at all.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

I’m not fully aware of all of these titles, although most of them at least ring a bell. SHUTTER was the main problem here, as I thought the green category was probably about photography for a little while. I even had ZOOM put into that category for a moment before I saw the other meeting options. Once ZOOM was taken out, it became a lot easier to see the other categories and thus easier to get the win and just pick these words at the end.

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Connections

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