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A new NEW Connections puzzle pops up at midnight every day for your time zone – meaning some people are always playing “today’s game” while others are playing “yesterday’s”. If you’re looking for the Wednesday puzzle instead then click here: NEW Connections Hints and Answers for Wednesday, May 27 (Game #1081).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers into different categories. It can be difficult, so read on if you need Connections tips.
What are you going to do when you’re done? Why, play some more puns of course. I also have daily Strands Hints and Answers and Quordle Hints and Answers articles if you need help with those too, while Marc’s Wordle Today page covers the original viral pun.
SPOILER ALERT: Today’s NYT Connections information is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NEW Connections today (game #1082) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- SKIP
- BAR
- PRESS
- LODGE
- BENCH
- ELEVATOR
- MEDIA
- HUNCH
- NEWS
- STUP
- STAND
- PAPERS
- SQUAT
- SPIRIT
- SLOPE
- PODIUM
NEW Connections today (game #1082) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Sink down
- GREEN: Reporting organizations
- BLUE: Things seen at a trial
- PURPLE: Snow shop
Need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NEW Connections today (game #1082) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Stay LOW
- GREEN: FOURTH PROPERTY
- BLUE: PARTS OF A COURT ROOM
- PURPLE: SKI___
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #1082) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #1082, are…
- YELLOW: Stay LOW DUCK, HUNCH, SQUAT, STOP
- GREEN: FOURTH PROPERTY MEDIA, NEWS, NEWSPAPERS, PRESS
- BLUE: PARTS OF A COURT ROOM BAR, BENCH, PODIUM, STAND
- PURPLE: SKI__ JUMP, LIFT, LODGE, SLOPE
- My assessment: Hard
- My score: Perfect
I was very tempted by the four words associated with weight training – PRESS, BAR, BENCH and SQUAT – but managed to resist after thinking that STOOP and HUNCH must go together.
FOURTH ESTATE is an interesting concept that I hadn’t really thought about the origins of before today’s game.
The term comes from old European ideas about how society and politics worked, divided into three distinct groups: the nobility, the clergy and the commoners. Those who worked for the media, whose job it is to document these three groups, were seen to exist in a fourth group. I love it when Connections sends us down these Google rabbit holes.
Yesterday’s NEW Connections Answer (Wednesday, May 27, Game #1081)
- YELLOW: SMALL COMMUNITY MUNICIPALITY, HAMLET, CITY, VILLAGE
- GREEN: CLASSIC BOARD GAMES BATTLESHIP, OPERATING, OTHELLO, ERROR
- BLUE: HOMOPHONES OF WAYS OF LOOKING AYE, LEAR, PIER, STAIRCASE
- PURPLE: ENDS IN “LITTLE WOMEN” THE SISTERS OF MARCH BANJO, MACBETH, MONOGAMY, NUTMEG
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four elements that share something in common, and each group has a different degree of difficulty: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough, and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you technically don’t need to solve the last one, as you’ll be able to answer it by a process of elimination. Also, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It’s a bit more involved than something like Wordle, though, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to let you beat yourself up with tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other puns that can hide the answers.
It can be played for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
