Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answer – Help for May 12, #336
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You need the answers for May 12 New York Times Connections Puzzle? Me, Wordle is more of a vocabulary test but Connections is more of a puzzle. You are given 16 words and you have to put them into four groups that are somehow related. Sometimes they are obvious, but the game editor knows how to mislead you by using words that can fit into more than one group.
And do you play Wordle too? We have today’s Wordle answer and tipstoo.
We have some too Tips for Strandsa new game from Times still in beta.
How to play Connections
The game is easy. Winning is hard. Look at the 16 words and mentally put them into related groups of four. Click on the four words you think go together. The groups are color-coded, although you don’t know what goes where until you see the answers. The yellow group is the easiest, then green, then blue and purple is the hardest. Look carefully at the words and think of related terms. Sometimes the link is only part of the word. Four words were once grouped because each began with the name of a rock band, including “Rushmore” and “Journeyman.”
Tips for today’s Connections groups
Here are four tips for grouping in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest, yellow group, to the difficult (and sometimes weird) purple group.
Yellow Group Tip: joke with
Green Group Tip: Meat options.
Blue Group Tip: Please answer this as soon as possible.
Purple Group Tip: Raise a glass.
Answers for today’s Connections groups
Yellow group: They playfully mock.
Green Group: Beef cuts.
Blue Group: Abbreviations.
Purple Group: Cocktails minus place names.
Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: The entire alphabet, ranked by letter popularity
What are today’s Connections answers?
The yellow words in today’s links
The theme is playfully mocking. The four words are child, needle, rib and tease.
The green words in today’s relationships
The subject is cuts of beef. The four words are chuck, flank, loin and round.
The blue words in today’s relationships
The topic is acronyms. The four words are MIA, OMG, PIN and RAM.
Purple words in today’s relationships
The theme is cocktails minus place names. The four words are libre, mama, mule and sling. (As in the Cuba Libre, Bahama Mama, Moscow Mule and Singapore Sling, we think.)
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