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Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for May 11 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
- Color
- Creep
- Shandy
- Karma
- Knives Out
- Slip
- Pyramid
- Rhyme
- Steal
- Chinatown
- Keyed
- Sneak
- Seven
- Ponzi
- Elegy
- Vertigo
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: Move stealthily, with "in"
- 🟩 Green: Kinds of schemes
- 🟦 Blue: Detective movies
- 🟪 Purple: Body parts surrounded by two letters
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 #1,065 are a tad easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2 out of 5.
- 🟨 Move stealthily, with "in": Creep, slip, sneak, steal
- 🟩 Kinds of schemes: Color, ponzi, pyramid, rhyme
- 🟦 Detective movies: Chinatown, knives out, seven, vertigo
- 🟪 Body parts surrounded by two letters: Elegy, karma, keyed, shandy
The first clue that jumped out at me was Knives Out, since I figured that could only be the Daniel Craig-led detective series. I broke out my magnifying glass and went hunting for similar genre entries, sussing out Chinatown, seven, and vertigo to solve blue.
Similarly, ponzi felt like it could only be one kind of thing, and when I saw pyramid I figured I was on the right track. I scooped up color and rhyme scheme to solve green.
I still wasn't sure what purple was, but figured yellow had to be the quartet of synonyms: creep, slip, sneak, and steal.
That left elegy, karma, keyed, and shandy for today's hardest category.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 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
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,064, which had a difficulty rating of 1.5 out of 5.
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.
