Looking for today's Connections answer for puzzle #521 on November 13, a little harder than yesterday's puzzle, this puzzle from Connections Companion has a difficulty rating of 3.2 out of 5.

We update our Connections clues and hints daily. And if the hints aren't enough, you can see all four solutions along with the category title and related words. In addition, for those of you reading this in a different time zone, I have included a reflection on yesterday's puzzle 520.

There are spoilers for Connection 521. Only those who want to know the answer to today's connection should read on.

Alternatively, see our NYT Connections How to Play Guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.

While today's wordle solution guide recommends the best wordle starting words as a strategy, the Connections solution depends on identifying the categories that are connected from the 16 words. The difficulty of each category is represented by a color, with yellow being the easiest grouping and purple the most difficult. Hints are helpful as the answer is displayed after four wrong guesses.

If you need a hint to solve the groupings, here are each theme in order of difficulty:

These hints should at least give you an idea of how to find the answer to today's connection. If not, please continue reading for larger hints. Also, if you just want the answer, scroll down further.

There is a bigger hint: go to the dentist, check if there is yellow, add a building, and try talking about it before you say it.

So, the answer to today's game #521 connection is.

Drum roll please.

Today's Connection is back on the New York Times website. Because the Tech Guild is back at work at the Times and urging people to return.

I tried the tartar, mustard, Worcestershire, and lemon sauce categories. It was a trap.

So, having seen Wing and Annex, we moved on to building add-ons. Extensions and add-ons were quickly found.

Canary and Lemon were classified in the yellow category, so I went back to Mustard. My son loves Minions, so it was a quick find for me.

Then I was stuck.

I had most of the blue group with cavities, plaque, and tartar. I had never heard of tartar, so it was a wild hunch that it was blue. Apparently tartar is calcified.

The purple category would be “words that seem longer written than spoken.” Colonel, Pharaoh, Wednesday, Worcestershire. I disagree with the Connections crew about this title.

I read it late in the day. According to the Connections companion, the difficulty level was 3 out of 5.

Before I begin, I would like to acknowledge that the Engineers Union has ended its strike against the New York Times. As of this writing, I have not seen any announcement that readers will be returning to NYT Games, but the strike gaming website is still live. Those who have been avoiding the official app and website to support it can return. However, if you still follow the Tech Guild's social media accounts and want to know more from them, check them out.

Today's puzzle ends via the strike website.

Whenever I see a ram in the game, I immediately think they're trying to make an astrological connection, and they're usually right. They got me today.

I didn't find the astrological connection I was looking for, but the floret, spear, and stem did. Took me a bit to find cloves in the vegetable “unit.”

Bellyache and grumble were next to hook me. I had guessed crab and knew that coy meant complain, but I was spinning my wheels there, but I was right. This should have been green instead of yellow, it seems.

I had my eye on robes, scales, and blindfolds, so knocking out the first two categories made it easy to get the purple features of justice by adding blindfolds.

Working for a technology website, I should probably be a little more ashamed that I saved the laptop specs for last - RAM, resolution, speed, storage, etc. Ouch.