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Today's puzzle asks you to cross your Ts with possessive pronouns.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for May 2 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
- Post-it
- Treasury
- Heraldry
- Play
- Interior
- Musical
- Mental
- State
- Times Tables
- Education
- Opera
- Psychic
- Extrasensory
- Globetrotter
- Telepathic
- Ballet
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: Clairvoyant
- 🟩 Green: Staged performances
- 🟦 Blue: U.S. cabinet departments
- 🟪 Purple: Starting with newspaper names
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 2 for puzzle #1,056 are easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 1.3 out of 5.
- 🟨 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
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.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Unnerve: Alarm, disturb, shake, shock
- 🟩 Remove, as an item from a list, with "off": Check, cross, mark, tick
- 🟦 What "T" might stand for: Tesla, time, true, tyrannosaurus
- 🟪 Homophones of possessive adjectives: Hour, hur, there, yore
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,054, which had a difficulty rating of 1.3 out of 5.
I felt unnecessarily clever when I saw Hur as "her" which led to hour as "our", there "their" and yore "your." And then it fell apart a bit.
I legitimately thought the check set was the yellow group, so I threw in alarm, distrub, shake and shock because I was not making the T connection. Quelle surprise when it was yellow.
In a bit of pique, I put in check, cross, mark and tick net.
And my cleverness was put through the wash when the final four came through as T stands in with tesla, time, true and tyrannosaurus. Time and true made sense; it took an embarrassingly long time for T-Rex to click and the T of the Tesla logo. Ah well.
