Today's Connections
Credit: NYT / Erik Kain
Looking for help with today’s Connections? We’ve got you covered. It’s the first Sunday of May and the days are getting warmer and longer as we head to the end of the school year and summer draws near. Today’s Connections is an interesting one, and I solved it in an order I don’t think I’ve ever solved a Connections before.
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Get your pencils out, Connectioneers, and let’s group some words!
If you’re looking for Saturday’s Connections guide, it’s right here.
Connections is the second-most popular NYT Games puzzle game outside of the main crossword itself, and an extremely fun, free offering that will get your brain moving every day. Play it right here.
The goal is to take a group of 16 words and find links between four pairs of four of them. They could be specific categories of terms, or they could be little world puzzles where words may come before or after them you need to figure out. And they get more complicated from there.
There is only one set of right answers for this, and you only get a certain number of tries so you can’t just spam around until you find something. There are difficulty tiers coded by color, which will usually go from yellow, blue/green to purple as difficulty increases, so know that going in and when you start linking them together.
You pick the four words you think are linked and either you will get a solve and a lit up row that shows you how you were connected. If you’re close, it will tell you that you’re one away. Again, four mistakes you lose, but if you want to know the answers without failing, either come here, or delete your web cookies and try again. If you want to play more puzzles, you can get an NYT Games subscription to access the full archives of all past puzzles.
Below, we’ll get into some extra hints for each Connections group – Yellow, Blue, Green and Purple – and then the official clues and answers.
Here are today’s Connections words:
Here’s an extra hint to help you solve each Connections group today:
Here’s one word from each group to help get you started:
Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today:
The full-on answers are below for each group, finally inserting the four words in each category. Spoilers follow if you do not want to get this far. The Connections answers are:
Here’s the finished grid:
Today's Connections
Screenshot: Erik Kain
Today’s Connections earned a 2/5 difficulty score on the Connections Bot, and that tracks with my experience. I didn’t miss a guess today, which is rare. I also solved this totally out of order, getting the Purple group second. Then again, I’d say this was one of the most obvious Purple Groups I’ve seen so . . . .
The red herring today was all the peace and love stuff. You have the PEACE symbol, the SEXUAL revolution, ACID and HIPPIEs and FREE LOVE. Still, seeing FRENCH in there made me instantly think of revolutions, and all those two-finger gestures were pretty obvious. All told, not as challenging a Connections as I’d have liked this Sunday, but them’s the breaks.
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