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Today's puzzle is more laid-back compared to yesterday with an easy up and down.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for May 7 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
- Mass
- Travel
- Channel
- Line
- Volume
- Drove
- Car Window
- Fly
- Pack
- Carry
- Net
- Goaltend
- Elevator
- Host
- Double-Dribble
- Hook
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: Fishing gear
- 🟩 Green: Multitude
- 🟦 Blue: Commit a basketball infraction
- 🟪 Purple: Controlled with up/down buttons
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 7 for puzzle #1,061 take a significant dive in difficulty compared to yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 1.7 out of 5.
- 🟨 Fishing gear: Fly, hook, line, net
- 🟩 Multitude: Drove, host, mass, pack
- 🟦 Commit a basketball infraction: Carry, double-dribble, goaltend, travel
- 🟪 Controlled with up/down buttons: Car window, channel, elevator, volume
Nearly snagged a reverse rainbow today but I flipped the blue and purple set. With the NBA playoffs ongoing, I was in mind of the playoffs and the flopmaster that is SGA, yes I am biased in that regard.
Anyway, double-dribble and goaltend were obvious up top. Then travel and it took a moment to find carry, which I can't remember the last time I saw that called or if it I did see it, it was not memorable.
Anyway, car window got me in the up and down mood which I added to with channel, elevator and volume.
Then I took the groups of drove, host, mass and pack.
Finally, the fishing gear went last with fly, hook, line and net.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Found in a casino: Cards, chips, dice, slot machine
- 🟩 Ways to fasten things: Buckle, button, laces, zipper
- 🟦 Seen in a bowling alley: Bowling ball, bowling pins, lane, scorecard
- 🟪 Flag designs: Circle, horizontal bisection, horizontal trisection, vertical trisection
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,060, which had a difficulty rating of 4 out of 5.
We haven't had a pictogram puzzle or a 4-rated one in awhile so this one was initially a doozy at first glance. But then I got the purple accidentally.
I put together a set with the circle, horizontal bisection and vertical trisection as single lines. For some reason, I put the lane instead of the horizontal bisection for a strike. That was quickly remedied and I got the flags.
Lane put me to bowling with the bowling ball, pins and eventually the scorecard, though again my thinking was elsewhere. Instead I was pursuing balls and I was seeing the scorecard as a pinball machine. The pins were billiards for me.
The games stood out to me next so I snagged chips, dice and cards next. It took a second to hit the slot machine.
And I wrapped it all up with ways to fasten things in buckle, button, laces and zipper.
