NYT ‘Connections' Hints And Answers For Saturday, May 17
Connections hints and answers are here.
Looking for Friday's NYT Connections hints, clues and answers instead? You can find them here:
A very tricky Strands today that is mostly science-themed for three out of four categories, if that's one broad initial hint for you to consume.
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.
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Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase
Pinpoint By Linkedin
Guess The Category
Queens By Linkedin
Crown Each Region
Crossclimb By Linkedin
Unlock A Trivia Ladder
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. So, onto the hints and answers:
These are the hints that are laid out on the puzzle board itself, but after that, we will get into spoiler territory with some hints and eventually the answers.
The hints for the Connections groups today are:
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:
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As per usual, yellow group was not that difficult. The only tricky part is that you may not remember that FUNGUS is separate from PLANT as two different entities that may seem the same, but they definitely are not. Just watch The Last of Us.
Green group has all sorts of tools you might use in college classes, relevant given that graduation from most universities is upon us this month. PROTRACTOR and RULER are probably the same class. BEAKER and SYRINGE could be too, depending.
Blue group? I definitely knew they were doing a penguin thing but I needed to remember that CHINSTRAP and MACARONI penguins existed other than just the 'royalty' penguins already listed.
Purple group was of course very difficult. We sort of just call E-COMMERCE regular commerce now. Though email and e-signatures have stuck around. E-scooters? Come on, that was kind of BS. I know it still stands for electronic but that's a whole different category of stuff. You got me with that one, NYT.
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