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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 Sunday puzzle instead then click here: NEW Connections Hints and Answers for Sunday, May 31 (Game #1085).
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 #1086) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- WEDDING
- MENAGERY
- ONION
- NEWSPAPER
- CEILING
- SLIPPERS
- WOOD
- CAT
- DOOR
- TATTOO
- TUBE
- WALL
- KEY
- WINDOW
- TRAM
- ROBE
NEW Connections today (game #1086) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Elements of a room
- GREEN: Armchair inactivity
- BLUE: Partial names of famous plays
- PURPLE: Add a word that rhymes with “thing”
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 #1086) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: ROOM FUNCTIONS
- GREEN: OLD TIME LOUNGING ACCESSORIES
- BLUE: SUBJECTS IN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS TITLES
- PURPLE: ____CALL
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #1086) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #1086, are…
- YELLOW: ROOM FUNCTIONS CEILING, DOOR, WALL, WINDOW
- GREEN: OLD TIME LOUNGING ACCESSORIES NEWSPAPER, PIPE, ROBE, SLIPPERS
- BLUE: SUBJECTS IN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS TITLES CAT, MENAGERY, STREETCAR, TATTOO
- PURPLE: ____CALL KEY, ONION, WOOD, WEDDING
- My assessment: Hard
- My score: 2 errors
Being a little old-fashioned and longing to spend more time relaxing, I should have gotten OLD-TIME LOUNGING ACCESSORIES easier, but my mistake was to include CAT instead of ROBE, since when I get to relax, it invariably involves the addition of a cat on my lap.
Next, knowing the titles of three Tennessee Williams plays has rarely been useful, but it was invaluable today, although it would have been better if I knew four, so along with CAT, MENAGERIE and STREETCAR, I originally had DOOR instead of TATTOO.
The four plays in question are Cat on a hot tin roof, The Glass Menagerie, A tram named Desireand The rose tattooin case you were wondering.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Sunday, May 31, Game #1085)
- YELLOW: THINGS THAT ARE YELLOW BUTTER, PIKACHU, RUBBER DUCK, SCHOOL BUS
- GREEN: BILLIARDS TERMS BREAK, CUE, POCKET, RACK
- BLUE: SNAKE FOR A SEAMAN JACK, SALT, SEA DOG, TAR
- PURPLE: WOOD VARIETIES PLUS “S” STEAK, STEAK, STEAK
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.
