Spoiler warning: This page covers NYT Connections puzzle #883 for Monday, November 10, 2025. Start with the gradual hints below and stop before the solution if you want to solve it yourself.
Hints for Connections #883
These clues move from broad category nudges to more revealing pointers. The four groups are percussion instruments, ways to satisfy debts, words from a famous Caesar quotation, and Latin prepositions.
- Yellow: Think of musical instruments that are struck or shaken.
- Green: These words can describe what you do to pay an obligation in full.
- Blue: The four tiles appear in a familiar phrase associated with Julius Caesar.
- Purple: A grammar clue: these are words used as prepositions in Latin.
All 16 Connections tiles
The complete word bank is: SINE, CLEAR, PRO, SQUARE, SAW, AB, TRIANGLE, BELL, CAME, DRUM, PAY, SUB, SETTLE, RATTLE, CONQUERED, and I.
Connections #883 answers
Spoilers below: The categories and their four tiles are:
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| Color | Category | Tiles |
|---|---|---|
| Yellow | Percussion instruments | BELL, DRUM, RATTLE, TRIANGLE |
| Green | Satisfy, as debts | CLEAR, PAY, SETTLE, SQUARE |
| Blue | Words in a famous quote by Caesar | I, CAME, SAW, CONQUERED |
| Purple | Latin prepositions | AB, PRO, SINE, SUB |
Why the trickiest tiles fit
TRIANGLE belongs with the instruments
Here, TRIANGLE means the percussion instrument, not the geometric shape. BELL, DRUM, and RATTLE complete the group. The other tiles can make that reading less obvious: SINE and terms such as PRO and AB may look technical or mathematical at first glance.
SQUARE can mean settling a debt
CLEAR, PAY, SETTLE, and SQUARE can all describe satisfying an obligation. In this use, to square an account is to settle it.
The Caesar tiles are words, not a sentence in puzzle order
The blue group is I, CAME, SAW, CONQUERED—the words of the familiar English rendering “I came, I saw, I conquered.” The four tiles form the group; the puzzle does not require them to appear as a complete sentence in that order.
AB, PRO, SINE, and SUB are Latin prepositions
The purple category is specifically Latin prepositions, rather than English abbreviations.
Sources and date
TechRadar’s guide, published November 9, 2025, and Parade’s guide, published November 10, both identify this as puzzle #883 for Monday, November 10, and give the same categories and tiles. A dated puzzle archive also records the same groupings: TechRadar, Parade, and Connection Hints archive.
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