NYT Connections Hints, Answers for Nov. 28, 2025 (#901)

Written by Anish – TechBoltX | Updated: November 28, 2025

Overview — Connections #901 (Nov. 28, 2025)

Connections #901 offers a neat mix of obvious and subtle groups. If you got stuck, don’t worry — today’s set blends simple language categories (fitting/suitable words), competitive verbs, parts of a guitar, and a linguistics-y purple group about speech features. Below you’ll find short hints for each color, the complete solution list, a brief explanation of why each group fits, and an FAQ plus JSON-LD you can paste into your post.

Hints (color-by-color)

• Yellow hint — Appropriate. Think words meaning “suitable” or “fitting.”
• Green hint — I win! Look for short verbs/words that mean to defeat or outperform.
• Blue hint — Musical instrument. Specifically: pieces you’d find on an electric guitar.
• Purple hint — Time to talk. These are features that describe how speech is produced.

Today’s Answers (Nov. 28, 2025)

🟨 Yellow group — Fitting

• fair
• just
• proper
• right

All four words describe something that is correct, suitable or appropriate — classic synonyms used in different registers.

🟩 Green group — Achieve victory over

• beat
• best
• take
• worst

These verbs/verb-phrases imply winning against someone (beat, best), or colloquial victory phrasing (take), and “worst” works as comparative in certain idiomatic groupings paired to imply overcoming — the puzzle groups them as victory-related usages.

🟦 Blue group — Parts of an electric guitar

• fret
• peg
• pickup
• string

Each is a tangible guitar component: frets for pitch division, pegs (tuners) for tension, pickups to sense string vibration, and strings themselves.

🟪 Purple group — Phonetic elements of speech

• intonation
• loudness
• rhythm
• stress

These four are measurable/observable prosodic features — they describe how something is said (tone contour, volume, timing, emphasis).

Quick solving tip

If you’re unsure, start by spotting the concrete/physical group (blue — guitar parts). Those anchor the board quickly and make the remaining abstract groups easier to separate.

FAQ — NYT Connections (Nov. 28, 2025)

Q: Which group was the hardest today?

A: Many solvers found the purple prosody group the trickiest because it’s more linguistic than everyday wordplay.

Q: Is the puzzle the same for everyone?

A: Yes — every player receives the same daily Connections puzzle.

Q: When does Connections reset?

A: The NYT puzzle slate refreshes at midnight Eastern Time.

Q: Where can I play Connections?

A: Play on the NYT Games app or at the New York Times puzzle page.