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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 8 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
- Memento
- Left Field
- School Crossing Sign
- Pitcher's Mound
- First Base
- Nowhere
- Home Plate
- Film Nerd
- The Pentagon
- The Blue
- Making Out
- Jeans Back Pocket
- Tonsil Hockey
- Burger King Whopper
- Thin Air
- Necking
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: Canoodling
- 🟩 Green: Five-sided things
- 🟦 Blue: Unexpected places to be "out of"
- 🟪 Purple: Ending in candy brands minus "S"
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 8 for puzzle #1,062 are a bit harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2 out of 5.
- 🟨 Canoodling: First base, making out, necking, tonsil hockey
- 🟩 Five-sided things: Home plate, jeans back pocket, school crossing sign, the pentagon
- 🟦 Unexpected places to be "out of": Left field, nowhere, the blue, thin air
- 🟪 Ending in candy brands in "S": Burger king whooper, film nerd, memento, pitcher's mound
I missed the reverse rainbow yesterday but managed to make up for it today.
Initially, I saw the baseball set (first base, home plate, left field and pitcher's mound) and was about to put it in when I spotted making out, which meant first base had another purpose.
Reviewing the baseball set, I spotted mound(s) and then burger king whopper(s). That led me to film nerd(s) and memento(s).
I immediately thought "out of left field" when I focused on that word. This got me to out of thin air and then of out of the blue and finally out out of nowhere.
The Pentagon and Home Plate got me to the five-side. I actually had to look at my jeans to see if the pocket was five-sided and then school crossing sign.
Finally, we returned to canoodling with first base, making out, necking and tonsil hockey.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 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
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,061, which had a difficulty rating of 1.7 out of 5.
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.
