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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 Monday puzzle instead then click here: NEW Connections Hints and Answers for Monday, May 11 (Game #1065).
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.
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 #1066) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- WEEKEND
- RANDO
- PAULO
- FRANCIS
- JOHNS
- MONICA
- WORK
- WUNK
- EMPTY
- SALVADOR
- DEPARTMENT
- VOLUME
- DISTANCE
- OPUS
- RICH
- PETERSBURG
NEW Connections today (game #1066) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Fiction that can be used as a door stop
- GREEN: Places with a holy word in common
- BLUE: Associated with the opposite of “short”
- PURPLE: Added money
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 #1066) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: ESSENTIAL BOOK
- GREEN: “HOLY” CITIES
- BLUE: “LONG” THINGS
- PURPLE: CURRENCY PLUS A LETTER
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #1066) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #1066, are…
- YELLOW: ESSENTIAL BOOK OPUS, TOME, VOLUME, WORK
- GREEN: “HOLY” CITIES MONICA, PAULO, PETERSBURG, SALVADOR
- BLUE: “LONG” THINGS DISTANCE, DIVISION, JOHNS, WEEKEND
- PURPLE: CURRENCY PLUS A LETTER FRANCI, RANDO, REALM, WONK
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 3 errors
I made three stupid mistakes after getting the yellow group pretty quickly.
First, I was pretty sure I was looking for “SAINT” CITIES, but instead of MONICA I submitted JOHNS. This will teach me to add tiles hastily, as St John’s I was thinking of is a district of London and not a city.
With only eight fields left, I still managed to make two more mistakes – first by thinking that RANDO and WONK were slang for types of relationships (so I added WEEKEND and DISTANCE). So, with no evidence other than DIVISION being part of an 80s band name, I clicked on WEEKEND, JOHNS and REALM and thought they were too.
Fortunately by pure chance this gave me a “one away” and I finally saw that there were four “LONG” THINGS. I hope it wasn’t that hard for you.
Yesterday’s NEW Connections Answers (Monday, May 11, Game #1065)
- YELLOW: MOVE DOUBLE WITH “IN” CREEP, DROP, SNEAK, STEAL
- GREEN: FORM OF ARRANGEMENTS COLOR, PONZI, PYRAMID, RHYME
- BLUE: DETECTIVE FILM CHINATOWN, KNIVES OUT, SEVEN, VERTIGO
- PURPLE: BODY PARTS SURROUNDED BY TWO LETTERS ELEGY, KARMA, KEYED, SHANDY
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.
