Today’s puzzle blends music, history, and language for a multi-layered challenge.
Yellow and green groups focus on rhythm and practical word associations.
Blue and purple groups test knowledge of Caesar’s words and Latin prepositions.
The NYT Connections puzzle of November 10 starts the week with an energetic combination of music, history, and words. It gives a Monday full of reflection - one that blends ancient Rome with percussion and some tricky vocabulary. This version of the game is entertaining and challenging at the same time, so the players are always in the mood to solve it without reaching the point of annoyance.
NYT Connections is one of The New York Times’ most popular word games. Each day brings sixteen words that must be grouped into four sets of four. Every set shares a hidden theme, and finding it depends on pattern recognition, vocabulary, and a bit of instinct.
The groups follow a color order based on difficulty - yellow is the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. A few wrong guesses are allowed, but one misstep can easily throw off the logic of the grid.
SINE, CLEAR, PRO, SQUARE, SAW, AB, I, TRIANGLE, BELL, CAME, DRUM, PAY, SUB, SETTLE, RATTLE, CONQUERED
Yellow Group – Feel the beat
Green Group – Take care of business
Blue Group – Words from a famous letter to the Roman Senate
Purple Group – Latin prepositions
Yellow Group - Percussion
Green Group -Debts
Blue Group - Caesar
Purple Group - Prepositions
Yellow Group - Percussion instruments: BELL, DRUM, RATTLE, TRIANGLE
Green Group - Satisfy, as debts: CLEAR, PAY, SETTLE, SQUARE
Blue Group - Words in a famous Caesar quote: CAME, CONQUERED, I, SAW
Purple Group - Latin prepositions: AB, PRO, SINE, SUB
Today’s puzzle carries a clever rhythm. The percussion-themed yellow group is a smooth start, followed by green’s practical wordplay on clearing debts. The blue group is easily recognizable - an allusion to Julius Caesar’s immortal words, “I came, I saw, I conquered.” It’s a nice historical turn. The purple set brings a classical theme in the form of Latin prepositions, which are not easy to remember.
The November 10 NYT Connections hits a sweet spot of being not too easy and not too tough. It moves gracefully between sound, sense, and history, rewarding both intuition and attention to detail. It’s a puzzle that plays like a drumbeat and ends with a victory march - fitting for a Monday.