Welcome back to another edition of the New York Times daily word game, Connections! If you are hunting for hints and answers for Wednesday, November 4, we have everything you need right here to solve today's grid.

For those unfamiliar with the mechanics, Connections is a popular free word game hosted on the New York Times website and Games app. Players are presented with a grid containing 16 items—ranging from words and phrases to symbols and numbers—and must successfully sort them into four distinct categories of four.

With only one exact solution, players must navigate around clever red herrings. You are granted up to three incorrect guesses before a fourth mistake results in a game over. The puzzles are color-coded by difficulty: yellow for the most straightforward associations, followed by green, blue, and purple. While yellow and green often rely on simple synonyms, blue typically features cultural references, and purple frequently incorporates wordplay.

Today's NYT Connections Word List

Here are the 16 items featured in today's puzzle:

  • FLY
  • POKE
  • IRON
  • WORKS
  • WOOD
  • WRING
  • WEDGE
  • BLEACH
  • PUTTER
  • CRACKER
  • DOORSTOP
  • LOLL
  • FLATIRON BUILDING
  • SHUFFLE
  • TUMBLE DRY
  • PIE SLICE

Today's NYT Connections Hints

If you want a gentle nudge before seeing the full solutions, here are the category hints for today:

  • 🟨 Yellow group — you maybe have to find the correct angle
  • 🟩 Green group — perhaps not the best things to do with your duds
  • 🟦 Blue group — no rush
  • 🟪 Purple group — box, side and thorn would fit in here

One Answer For Each NYT Connections Group

Warning: spoiler territory ahead. Here is a single word belonging to each respective group:

  • 🟨 Yellow group — WEDGE
  • 🟩 Green group — WRING
  • 🟦 Blue group — SHUFFLE
  • 🟪 Purple group — CRACKER

Today's NYT Connections Categories

Here are the official categories for today's groups:

  • 🟨 Yellow group — triangular prisms with a sharp edge
  • 🟩 Green group — words after “do not” on a care label
  • 🟦 Blue group — move idly, with “around”
  • 🟪 Purple group — fire____

Today's NYT Connections Answers

Stop scrolling now if you do not want to see the complete answers. Here is how the 16 words break down into their final groups:

  • 🟨 Yellow group — triangular prisms with a sharp edge (DOORSTOP, FLATIRON BUILDING, PIE SLICE, WEDGE)
  • 🟩 Green group — words after “do not” on a care label (BLEACH, IRON, TUMBLE DRY, WRING)
  • 🟦 Blue group — move idly, with “around” (LOLL, POKE, PUTTER, SHUFFLE)
  • 🟪 Purple group — fire____ (CRACKER, FLY, WOOD, WORKS)

Navigating past red herrings like golf clubs helped secure the yellow category with WEDGE and DOORSTOP, while laundry-care terms easily cleared up the green group. Spotting FLY and WORKS side-by-side unlocked the purple category, leaving the blue terms to round out the puzzle.