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Today's puzzle is pretty easy, especially if you're a little hungry.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for May 14 below.
What is Connections
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
- The Others
- Silent
- Ghost
- All Hallows
- Sixth Sense
- Breadcrumb
- Ring
- Intuition
- Arm Warmer
- Gut Feeling
- Catfish
- Do Not Disturb
- Vibrate
- Love Bomb
- Air Cairo
- Hunch
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Omen
- 🟩 Green: Call me
- 🟦 Blue: Taboos
- 🟪 Purple: Hidden words
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: Premonition
- 🟩 Green: Cellphone modes
- 🟦 Blue: Bad things to do in modern dating
- 🟪 Purple: Phrases whose second words include their first word
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 14 for puzzle #1,068 are easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2 out of 5.
- 🟨 Premonition: Gut feeling, hunch, intuition, sixth sense
- 🟩 Cellphone modes: Do not disturb, ring, silent, vibrate
- 🟦 Bad things to do in modern dating: Breadcrumb, catfish, ghost, love bomb
- 🟪 Phrases whose second words include their first word: Air cairo, all hallows, arm warmer, the others
I'm not sure if the ghost films in today's grid is a trap but I fell for it. So don't put Ghost, Ring, The Others and Sixth Sense together. However, that does give me a way to see the other categories.
I started with Ring and followed the modes to do not disturb, vibrate and silent.
I still wasn't sure on the purple or blue yet, so I took the yellow set of guesses gut feeling, hunch, sixth sense and intuition.
Having the final eight finally clicked the words hidden in other words for the purple set. So we have the others, arm warmer, all hallows, and air cairo.
Which left ghost, lovebomb, catfish and breadcrumb. My issue was that I'm not familiar with the term breadcrumb. It makes sense upon looking it up.
It's considered a manipulation tactic where a person leaves "breadcrumbs" that indicate interest, which strings the other party along. Quite mean.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Long sandwich: Grinder, hero, hoagie, sub
- 🟩 Pretext: Argument, basis, cause, grounds
- 🟦 Smartphone photo editing options: Adjust, crop, filters, markup
- 🟪 Jelly ____: Bean, belly, donut, roll
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,067, which had a difficulty rating of 2.2. out of 5.
I went down the line today.
I started with the sandwiches in grinder, hoagie, sub and hoagie.
Argument, basis, cause, and grounds stood out to me next and turned out to be the green set.
The editing tools stood out next with adjust, crop, filters, and markup.
Which left the jellies for last: jelly bean, jelly belly, jelly donut, and jelly roll.
