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Today's puzzle pretends to like baseball, but don't let that trap strike you out.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for May 10 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
- Skip
- Season
- Leap
- Stir
- Bound
- Play
- Muddle
- Coil
- Repeat
- Sure
- Pour
- Fountain
- Certain
- Shuffle
- Garnish
- Fated
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: Music player buttons
- 🟩 Green: Destined
- 🟦 Blue: Verbs in making a mojito
- 🟪 Purple: What 'spring' might refer to
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 10 for puzzle #1,064 are a tad easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 1.5 out of 5.
- 🟨 Music player buttons: Play, repeat, shuffle, skip
- 🟩 Destined: Bound, certain, fated, sure
- 🟦 Verbs in making a mojito: Garnish, muddle, pour, stir
- 🟪 What 'spring' might refer to: Coil, fountain, leap, season
I'm always listening to something or other on Spotify, so today's yellow category jumped out at me immediately with play, repeat, shuffle, and skip.
Muddle and garnish by themselves may not have tipped me off, but alongside pour and stir I figured one of the category's had to deal with mojitos and I was right.
With blue out of the way, I rounded up a quartet of synonyms for green: bound, certain, fated, and sure.
That left purple as today's rote fill with coil, fountain, leap, and season.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Units of programs: Episode, franchise, season, series
- 🟩 Things worn around the neck: Boa, chain, lanyard, tie
- 🟦 Strings tied in knots: Friendship bracelet, macrame, quipu, shoelaces
- 🟪 ____ Piece: Conversation, period, puff, think
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,063, which had a difficulty rating of 2.3 out of 5.
I relearned something today which I always find to be fun. More on that in a moment.
To kick things off I took lanyard, boa, tie and chain as necklaces right off because I saw the set first.
With the green out of the way, period piece came to mind, which is how I got to think piece, puff piece and conversation piece. Helpfully, three of the four were in the first row when the grid reset.
I took the yellow franchise set of episode, franchise, season and series next because I wasn't entirely confident in what the blue set was going for.
I had clocked macrame, friendship bracelet and macrame as stringed things early on but I try not to look things up as I'm solving. Largely this is because often the tricky words or words I don't know might be a "misspelling" or used in a different manner.
Anyway, the point is I had forgetten what a quipu is. So it was nice to look it up after the solve and be reminded that at it's simplest, the quipu was a way of record keeping for Incans precolonization.
My understanding is that while we know they were used as a medium for data tracking, it's not yet clear how to read a quipu. Fascinating stuff.
