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Today's puzzle asks you to take a far out step back in history.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for May 3 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
- Peace
- Green
- House
- Acid
- Garage
- Commune
- French
- Fingers Crossed
- Industrial
- Bunny Ears
- Sexual
- Hippie
- Shed
- Air Quotes
- Free Love
- Porch
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: Home structures
- 🟩 Green: Associated with 1960s counterculture
- 🟦 Blue: Famous revolutions in history
- 🟪 Purple: Gestures made with the index and middle fingers
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 3 for puzzle #1,057 are easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2 out of 5.
- 🟨 Home structures: Garage, house, porch, shed
- 🟩 Associated with 1960s counterculture: Acid, commune, free love, hippie
- 🟦 Famous revolutions in history: French, green, industrial, sexual
- 🟪 Gestures made with the index and middle fingers: Air quotes, bunny ears, fingers crossed, peace
Today's puzzle dives into some far out trends.
Air quotes and bunny ears got my thinking of common gestures, and sure enough fingers crossed seemed an obvious one to lump into the mix. It took me a second, but I eventually figured out peace went along with them too to solve purple.
I've been thinking a lot about the French revolution given the state of the world, so the clue French had me thinking about rolling out the guillotines. I went hunting for other revolutions and came up with green, industrial, and sexual for blue.
At first I thought garage and house had to do with types of rock music, but when I saw porch and shed I realized the real answer was much simpler than that.
That left green as today's rote fill with acid, commune, free love, and hippie.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Clairvoyant: Extrasensory, mental, psychic, telepathic
- 🟩 Staged performances: Ballet, musical, opera, play
- 🟦 U.S. cabinet departments: Education, interior, state, treasury
- 🟪 Starting with newspaper names: Globetrotter, heraldry, post-it, times tables
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,056, which had a difficulty rating of 1.3 out of 5.
Today's puzzle is an example of overthinking things.
With Globe and Times Tables, I was thinking of newspaper names, and then for some reason I thought, "No, that's not it." So I skipped the set.
Instead, I started with U.S. departments in interior, treasury, education and state.
Somehow, doing that clicked the newspapers, and I was able to add Post-it and times tables to Globetrotter and heraldry.
My second moment of overthinking was an inability to decide if the ESP words of extrasensory, mental, psychic or telepathic were yellow or green versus ballet, music, opera and play.
I guessed wrong, as you can see, and put ESP first and then grabbed the stage.
