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NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, November 30 (game #903)

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30 November 2025

NYT Connections homescreen on a phone, on a purple background

Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.

What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?

YELLOW: Put up with
GREEN: Dismal failure
BLUE: Skull and crossbones characters
PURPLE: Sounds colorful

Need more clues?

We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections today (game #903) – the answers

NYT Connections answers for game 903 on a purple background — (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today’s Connections, game #903, are…

YELLOW: TOLERATE BEAR, STAND, STOMACH, SWALLOW
GREEN: FLOP BUST, LEMON, MISS, TURKEY
BLUE: FICTIONAL PIRATES HOOK, LUFFY, SILVER, SPARROW
PURPLE: ENDING IN COLOR HOMOPHONES CAMEROON, COCKATIEL, UNREAD, WHISTLEBLEW

My rating: Hard
My score: 2 mistakes

I’ve been pretty good at getting purple groups recently, but I was utterly blind to today’s quartet – the oddly past tense WHISTLEBLEW should have tipped me off. Kudos if you saw it.

My first mistake today was the obvious one of thinking we had a collection of birds in COCKATIEL, TURKEY, SPARROW and SWALLOW. Sometimes the obvious is right – sometimes it’s way off.

Next I somehow fluked my way to FICTIONAL PIRATES, although my first attempt included CAMEROON instead of HOOK (I thought they might be different breeds of an animal rather than fellas who wander around with parrots on their shoulders).

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final one, as you’ll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It’s a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.