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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 18 (Game #1072).
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 #1073) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- FOREVER
- SALON
- COOK
- SURGEON
- NURSE
- DOCTOR
- FUDGE
- SUPERFUDGE
- CRY
- BLUBBER
- DESPITE
- AMEND
- FOUNDER
- BABEL
- DEENIE
- TEETH
NEW Connections today (game #1073) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Infant activities
- GREEN: Insidious changes
- BLUE: Novels by a prolific author
- PURPLE: All incl
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 #1073) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: THINGS BABIES DO
- GREEN: MODIFY MISLEADING
- BLUE: JUDY BLUME BOOKS
- PURPLE: FISH MINUS ONE LETTER
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #1073) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #1073, are…
- YELLOW: THINGS BABIES DO SNAP, CRY, NURSING, TEETH
- GREEN: MODIFY MISLEADING ALTER, COOK, DOCTOR, FUDGE
- BLUE: JUDY BLUME BOOKS BLUBBER, DEENIE, FOREVER, SUPERFUDGE
- PURPLE: FISH MINUS ONE LETTER FOUNDATION PHYSICIAN, SALON, SURGEON, TROT
- My assessment: Hard
- My score: 2 errors
Honestly, I feel incredibly lucky to have made it through this game after only making two mistakes, as I was completely stunned at the beginning and remained so throughout.
There were so many crossovers here and I naturally fell for the most obvious one, linking DOCTOR, NURSE, SURGEON and COOK with the reasoning that they are all jobs in hospitals. On second thought, COOK didn’t really work.
Next I thought we were looking for four words about tears so BABBLE, CRY, BLUBBER and TEETHE made sense. Fortunately, this gave me a “one away”.
How I managed to get the four FISH MINUS ONE LETTER is a mystery as I fumbled in the dark. In fact, you could say my entire game was a SUPERFUDGE.
Yesterday’s NEW Connections Answers (Monday, May 18, Game #1072)
- YELLOW: HOMOPHONES PAIR, PAIR, PEAR, PÈRE
- GREEN: RUPTURE BLOW, BREAK, POP, SPLIT
- BLUE: MLB PLAYER PADRE, RED, ROYAL, TILLING
- PURPLE: FRUIT ANAGRAMS CHEAP, EARP, LUMP, WIKI
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.
