NYT Connections #900 for Thursday, November 27, 2025, grouped its 16 words into inundation, main computer folders, woodworking tools, and rhymes for other New York Times games. Use the progressively stronger clues below before revealing the full solution.
Spoiler warning: The complete answers and category names appear after the hints.
NYT Connections hints for November 27, 2025
NYT Connections #900 was published on Thursday, November 27, 2025. The four groups were inundation, main folders in a computer, woodworking tools, and rhymes for New York Times games.
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Spoiler warning: The complete categories and sixteen-word solution appear below the hints. Stop before the answer section if you are still solving.
Today’s Connections hints
- Look out! Think of forces or events that can overwhelm an area.
- Store things here. Consider familiar folders or locations on a computer.
- In the shop. Think of tools a woodworker might use.
- Some meta rhyming. The last group refers, through sound-alike phrases, to other New York Times games.
Stronger clues, one group at a time
If the broad hints were not enough, these more specific descriptions may help:
- One group describes overwhelming floods, releases, or forces.
- One group contains four familiar names associated with computer storage and navigation.
- One group contains four woodworking tools.
- The hardest group disguises the names of Connections, Strands, Wordle, and Spelling Bee as approximate rhymes or sound associations.
NYT Connections answers for November 27, 2025
The answers for Connections #900 were:
- Yellow — INUNDATION: AVALANCHE, OUTPOURING, TIDAL WAVE, TORRENT
- Green — MAIN FOLDERS IN A COMPUTER: DESKTOP, DOCUMENTS, DOWNLOADS, MUSIC
- Blue — WOODWORKING TOOLS: DRILLS, FILES, ROUTERS, SAWS
- Purple — RHYMES FOR NEW YORK TIMES GAMES: CONFECTIONS, GRANDS, HURDLE, SWELLING SEA
The complete sixteen-word grid
AVALANCHE · OUTPOURING · TIDAL WAVE · TORRENT · DESKTOP · DOCUMENTS · DOWNLOADS · MUSIC · DRILLS · FILES · ROUTERS · SAWS · CONFECTIONS · GRANDS · HURDLE · SWELLING SEA
Why each Connections group works
Yellow: Inundation
AVALANCHE, OUTPOURING, TIDAL WAVE, and TORRENT can all describe something arriving in an overwhelming quantity or force.
An avalanche and a tidal wave are literal natural events. Outpouring can describe a flood-like release of emotion, words, or support, while torrent can refer to a rush of water, speech, data, or other material. The category therefore mixes literal and figurative uses of flood imagery.
Green: Main folders in a computer
DESKTOP, DOCUMENTS, DOWNLOADS, and MUSIC are familiar user-facing folders or locations in desktop-computing environments.
The wording is deliberately practical rather than universal: different operating systems and devices may organize files differently, and not every computer will display precisely the same default folders. In the puzzle, these are recognizable computer locations rather than a claim about one identical folder structure on every system.
Blue: Woodworking tools
DRILLS, FILES, ROUTERS, and SAWS are all tools used in woodworking.
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- Files shape, smooth, or remove material.
- Routers cut grooves, edges, and other recesses in wood.
- Saws cut wood into pieces or along marked lines.
FILES is the key trap here. It looks as though it could belong with the computer-related words, but the intended grouping uses it as a woodworking tool. Connections often places a word where it can plausibly suggest more than one category before the final arrangement is clear.
Purple: Rhymes for New York Times games
The purple group uses approximate rhymes, altered phrases, and sound associations rather than straightforward definitions:
| Grid entry | NYT game it evokes | How the wordplay works |
|---|---|---|
| CONFECTIONS | Connections | A close sound-based match |
| GRANDS | Strands | A shortened or altered rhyme |
| HURDLE | Wordle | A looser rhyme based on the ending sound |
| SWELLING SEA | Spelling Bee | A phrase echoing the cadence and sound of the game name |
This is the puzzle’s most meta category: the entries point away from their ordinary meanings and toward other games in the New York Times Games lineup. The matches are not all exact dictionary rhymes. CONFECTIONS and Connections are especially close, while HURDLE and SWELLING SEA rely on looser sound and phrase-level associations.
Why this puzzle was tricky
Several entries were designed to pull solvers toward the wrong group:
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- SWELLING SEA sounds like it should join the water-related inundation words. Instead, it represents Spelling Bee in the purple wordplay group.
- GRANDS may suggest money or quantities, but its intended role is as the sound-based clue for Strands.
- MUSIC may evoke rhythm or sound, yet it belongs with DESKTOP, DOCUMENTS, and DOWNLOADS as a computer location.
A productive route through the grid was to identify the four woodworking tools or the four computer-related entries first. Once those groups were removed, the unusual phrases and potentially misleading words made the remaining inundation and NYT-games categories easier to separate.
How NYT Connections works
Connections presents 16 words and asks players to divide them into four groups of four. Every group has a shared connection, but some words are intentionally written to appear compatible with multiple categories. The groups are color-coded by difficulty: yellow is generally the easiest, followed by green and blue, while purple is usually the most challenging.
The daily puzzle is released at midnight in the player’s local time zone. That means “today’s” puzzle can refer to different calendar dates for people playing near midnight or in different locations. This guide is specifically for Thursday, November 27, 2025, puzzle #900.
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For additional offline challenges, a New York Times Games puzzle book is a natural companion to the daily online grid. The publisher-backed catalog lists a hardcover Connections collection by The New York Times Games and Wyna Liu with more than 100 puzzles and exclusive material, although its listed October 27, 2026 publication date makes it a forthcoming title at the time of the research. A separate listing describes Puzzle Mania!: Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee, Minis and More!, dated November 4, 2025.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What were the NYT Connections answers for November 27, 2025?
The four categories were INUNDATION; MAIN FOLDERS IN A COMPUTER; WOODWORKING TOOLS; and RHYMES FOR NEW YORK TIMES GAMES.
What was the purple category in Connections #900?
The purple answers were CONFECTIONS for Connections, GRANDS for Strands, HURDLE for Wordle, and SWELLING SEA for Spelling Bee. They use approximate rhymes and sound associations.
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When does the next NYT Connections puzzle come out?
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The Bottom Line
Final answer: Connections #900 for November 27, 2025 grouped the words into INUNDATION; MAIN FOLDERS IN A COMPUTER; WOODWORKING TOOLS; and RHYMES FOR NEW YORK TIMES GAMES.
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