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Today's puzzle asks babies to read deceptive Judy Blume books whilst fishing.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for May 19 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
- Forever
- Salon
- Cook
- Surgeon
- Nurse
- Doctor
- Fudge
- Superfudge
- Cry
- Blubber
- Trot
- Alter
- Founder
- Babble
- Deenie
- Teethe
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Baby
- 🟩 Green: Trick
- 🟦 Blue: Ramona
- 🟪 Purple: Gone fishing
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: Things babies do
- 🟩 Green: Modify deceptively
- 🟦 Blue: Judy Blume books
- 🟪 Purple: Fish minus 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 19 for puzzle #1,073 are an itsy bit harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.3 out of 5.
- 🟨 Things babies do: Babble, cry, nurse, teethe
- 🟩 Modify deceptively: Alter, cook, doctor, fudge
- 🟦 Judy Blume books: Blubber, deenie, forever, superfudge
- 🟪 Fish minus a letter: Founder, salon, surgeon, trot
I found today's puzzle tricky, largely due to Judy Blume. More on that in a moment.
My way in was Founder, which I misread as Flounder. Initially, I was looking for Little Mermaid character misspellings before I switched to fish. That's how I got to sturgeon, trout and eventually salmon.
My next word was cook when I thought of the phrase cook the books. This helped me get to doctor, fudge and alter.
I still wasn't sure of the blue set, so I took the baby behaviors in babble, cry, nurse, teethe.
Which left Blubber, Deenie, Forever and Superfudge. I realized that despite her extensive catalog I've only read Judy Blume's Ramona books. So all four of these titles were unfamiliar to me except Superfudge which I recalled reading once I looked up a cover.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Homophones: Pair, pare, pear, pere
- 🟩 Rupture: Blow, crack, pop, split
- 🟦 MLB player: Padre, red, royal, twin
- 🟪 Fruit anagrams: Cheap, earp, lump, wiki
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,072, which had a difficulty rating of 2.2 out of 5.
All the homophones starting with "p" (pair, pare, pear, and pere) were what first stood out to me in today's puzzle, a connection so simple I figured it had to be yellow. I was right.
After that I started looking for any synonyms for blue or green, and came up with block, crack, pop, and split.
I'm not the biggest sports fan, but I've seen Serra Padre and Devin Royal make headlines enough that I figured basketball had to be in the mix. After striking out with a few guesses, I eventually stumbled on the other two in the blue category: red and twin.
That left some fruit-themed anagrams for today's rote fill for purple: cheap, earp, lump, and wiki.
