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Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for May 6 below.
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Solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.
Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Today's Connection Grid and Words
- Horizontal trisection
- Zipper
- Dice
- Scorecard
- Slot machine
- Button
- Bowling ball
- Circle
- Bowling pins
- Vertical trisection
- Cards
- Laces
- Buckle
- Chips
- Horizontal bisection
- Lane
Today's Connections Group Hints
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Found in a casino
- 🟩 Green: Ways to fasten things
- 🟦 Blue: Seen in a bowling alley
- 🟪 Purple: Flag designs
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Today's Connections answers
The Connections answers on May 6 for puzzle #1,060 are way harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 4 out of 5.
- 🟨 Found in a casino: Cards, chips, dice, slot machine
- 🟩 Ways to fasten things: Buckle, button, laces, zipper
- 🟦 Seen in a bowling alley: Bowling ball, bowling pins, lane, scorecard
- 🟪 Flag designs: Circle, horizontal bisection, horizontal trisection, vertical trisection
We haven't had a pictogram puzzle or a 4-rated one in awhile so this one was initially a doozy at first glance. But then I got the purple accidentally.
I put together a set with the circle, horizontal bisection and vertical trisection as single lines. For some reason, I put the lane instead of the horizontal bisection for a strike. That was quickly remedied and I got the flags.
Lane put me to bowling with the bowling ball, pins and eventually the scorecard, though again my thinking was elsewhere. Instead I was pursuing balls and I was seeing the scorecard as a pinball machine. The pins were billiards for me.
The games stood out to me next so I snagged chips, dice and cards next. It took a second to hit the slot machine.
And I wrapped it all up with ways to fasten things in buckle, button, laces and zipper.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Glimmer: Flicker, hint, suggestion, whiff
- 🟩 Involuntary actions: Blink, hiccup, shiver, sneeze
- 🟦 Kinds of knots: Bend, bowline, hitch, sheepshank
- 🟪 Starting with units in competitions: Gamelan, matchstick, pointer, setback
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,059, which had a difficulty rating of 2.5 out of 5.
I made a weird hard-easy sandwich today. I did Cub Scouts as a kid so the knots leapt out to me immediately with bowline, hitch, bend and sheepshank.
Then I snagged the yellow set with flicker, hint, suggestion and whiff next. I legitimately do not seem to be connecting which are yellow and which are green lately. I thought the whiffs were more green than yellow.
Anyway, I put the green set next with blink, hiccup, shiver, sneeze.
All of that mess left gamelan, matchstick, pointer and setback.
