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Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for May 12 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
- Weekend
- Rando
- Paulo
- Franci
- Johns
- Monica
- Work
- Wonk
- Tome
- Salvador
- Division
- Volume
- Distance
- Opus
- Realm
- Petersburg
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Heavy reading
- 🟩 Green: Angelic
- 🟦 Blue: Not short
- 🟪 Purple: Spend some money
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: Substantial book
- 🟩 Green: "Saint" cities
- 🟦 Blue: "Long" things
- 🟪 Purple: Currencies plus a letter
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 12 for puzzle #1,065 are much harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 3.3 out of 5.
- 🟨 Substantial book: Opus, tome, volume, work
- 🟩 "Saint" cities: Monica, paulo, petersburg, salvador
- 🟦 "Long" things: Distance, division, johns, weekend
- 🟪 Currencies plus a letter: Franci, rando, realm, work
The first thing I noticed today were the saints. Though I took a strike because I put Johns in stead of salvador in. That's largely because I'm originally from Portland and there is neighborhood called St. Johns. This is probably no where near what the connections people were thinking.
Anyway, we had Santa Monica, Sao Paulo, St. Petersburg and San Salvador.
Long Division got me the next set of long distance, long johns and long weekend.
I saw the purple set but wasn't sure what it was so I took yellow next with opus, tome, volume and work.
Then I had the currencies of franci, rando, realm, and wonk.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Move stealthily, with "in": Creep, slip, sneak, steal
- 🟩 Kinds of schemes: Color, ponzi, pyramid, rhyme
- 🟦 Detective movies: Chinatown, knives out, seven, vertigo
- 🟪 Body parts surrounded by two letters: Elegy, karma, keyed, shandy
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,064, which had a difficulty rating of 2 out of 5.
The first clue that jumped out at me was Knives Out, since I figured that could only be the Daniel Craig-led detective series. I broke out my magnifying glass and went hunting for similar genre entries, sussing out Chinatown, seven, and vertigo to solve blue.
Similarly, ponzi felt like it could only be one kind of thing, and when I saw pyramid I figured I was on the right track. I scooped up color and rhyme scheme to solve green.
I still wasn't sure what purple was, but figured yellow had to be the quartet of synonyms: creep, slip, sneak, and steal.
That left elegy, karma, keyed, and shandy for today's hardest category.
