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Forbes
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
NYT ‘Connections' Hints And Answers For Sunday, May 4th
Connections hints and answers are here. Credit: The New York Times Looking for Saturday's NYT Connections hints, clues and answers instead? You can find them here: Beginning this month, my colleague Paul Tassi and I are taking over the weekend desk for Connections guides from our colleague Kris Holt, who will still be handling weekday guides. I'm excited to expand my puzzling endeavors to this extra challenging, and sometimes incredibly frustrating, game. I'll also have to come up with a nickname for you Connections puzzle-solvers. I call my Wordle players Wordlers and my Strands players some version of Strandistarians or Strandistas (etc). Maybe Connectioneers will suffice (as in Musketeers) unless I come up with something better. Today is May the 4th, which is Star Wars Day (because May the 4th be with you) and today's Connections has some words that just might be from a galaxy far, far way. Let's get right to it! You can skip the next section and jump right to today's hints if you already know how to play. Connections is the second-most popular NYT Games puzzle game outside of the main crossword itself, and an extremely fun, free offering that will get your brain moving every day. Play it right here. The goal is to take a group of 16 words and find links between four pairs of four of them. They could be specific categories of terms, or they could be little world puzzles where words may come before or after them you need to figure out. And they get more complicated from there. There is only one set of right answers for this, and you only get a certain number of tries so you can't just spam around until you find something. There are difficulty tiers coded by color, which will usually go from yellow, blue/green to purple as difficulty increases, so know that going in and when you start linking them together. You pick the four words you think are linked and either you will get a solve and a lit up row that shows you how you were connected. If you're close, it will tell you that you're one away. Again, four mistakes you lose, but if you want to know the answers without failing, either come here, or delete your web cookies and try again. If you want to play more puzzles, you can get an NYT Games subscription to access the full archives of all past puzzles. These are the hints that are laid out on the puzzle board itself, but after that, we will get into spoiler territory with some hints and eventually the answers. Connections May 4th Credit: NYT Today's Bonus Clue: You'll notice some words that call to mind Star Wars in this grid (maybe calling to mind a Sith lord, a smuggler, a Wookiee and a bounty hunter). They are a trap. Do not lump them together! Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today: FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder The full-on answers are below for each group, finally inserting the four words in each category. Spoilers follow if you do not want to get this far. The Connections answers are: I actually got this one pretty quickly today, mostly because I knew that the Star Wars words – DARTH, SOLO, BOBA and CHEWY – had to be a red herring. Once I spotted BOBA I just looked for other Boba Tea words and found SUGAR, MILK and TEA pretty quickly. That took care of those. After this, I tried to think of words with multiple meanings. NOODLE has several different meanings and as soon as I imagined noodling on a guitar, I realized that SOLO would work . . . and JAM and SHRED. Sure enough, the guitar player in me figured this one out. The purples took a bit longer, but I basically just took four words that seemed a bit off, not really fitting in with anything else, and grouped those. DARTH, GENUS, CARS and BLUTO? I didn't know how they fit together but I knew they were different from the rest of the words. Sure enough, these were actually planets – Pluto, Mars, Earth and Venus – and this left me with only yellows. Not too shabby! According to Connections Bot, this was trickier than recent connections, at 4/5 Difficulty. Here's the stats: Connections Bot Screenshot: Erik Kain How did you do on today's Connections? Let me know on Twitter, Instagram, Bluesky or Facebook. Also be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel and follow me here on this blog. Sign up for my newsletter for more reviews and commentary on entertainment and culture.
Forbes
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
NYT ‘Strands' Today: Hints, Spangram And Answers For Friday, May 2nd
Today's NYT Strands hints and answers Credit: New York Times Looking for Thursday's Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here: We've come back to Friday, dearest Strandistarians. This will be my last Strands guide for the week, but I'll be back in the middle of May. I'll also be taking over Sunday Connections guides, and of course my daily Wordle. I hope you all have a fantastic weekend. Let's uncover some words! Strands is the newest game in the New York Times' stable of puzzle games. It's a fun twist on classic word search games. Every day we're given a new theme and then tasked with uncovering all the words on the grid that fit that theme, including a spangram that spans two sides of the board. One of these words is the spangram which crosses from one side of the grid to another and reveals even more about the day's theme. Spoilers ahead. Here are some hints to help you solve today's grid. Today's Theme: What a trill! Hint: Avian creatures. Clue: Of a more musical variety. Here are the first two letters of each word: Remember, spoilers ahead! Today's spangram is: SONGBIRDS Here's the full list of words: Here's the completed Strands grid: Today's Strands Credit: Erik Kain I read today's theme as 'What a thrill!' instead of 'What a trill!' at first, and this set me back. I was a little confused! But once I'd found the word BIRD out there, I realized my mistake. I figured BIRD was part of the spangram, but wasn't able to string it together until I'd found LARK, WREN and CARDINAL. Then SONGBIRDS materialized and the rest fell nicely into place. How did you do on your Strands today? Let me know on Twitter and Facebook. Be sure to check out my blog for my daily Wordle guides as well as all my other writing about TV shows, streaming guides, movie reviews, video game coverage and much more. Thanks for stopping by!
Forbes
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
NYT ‘Strands' Today: Hints, Spangram And Answers For Wednesday, April 30th
Today's NYT Strands hints and answers Credit: New York Times Looking for Tuesday's Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here: Wednesday not only slices the week in half, it ends the month of April. We've come to the precipice, dearest Strandistarians. It's a full dive into May tomorrow. Summer is coming, and not a moment too soon! We have words to uncover, so let's tackle this Strands! Strands is the newest game in the New York Times' stable of puzzle games. It's a fun twist on classic word search games. Every day we're given a new theme and then tasked with uncovering all the words on the grid that fit that theme, including a spangram that spans two sides of the board. One of these words is the spangram which crosses from one side of the grid to another and reveals even more about the day's theme. Spoilers ahead. Here are some hints to help you solve today's grid. Today's Theme: Best of class Hint: Think back to high school. Clue: And something you might sign. Here are the first two letters of each word: Remember, spoilers ahead! Today's spangram is: YEARBOOK Here's the full list of words: Here's the completed Strands grid: Today's Strands Credit: Erik Kain This was something of a peculiar, and weirdly misleading, Strands. Words like EYES and DRESSED really felt off for YEARBOOK. At first I was thinking this would be a play on 'best in show' and dog-related, but that was clearly not the case. Once I had COUPLE and FRIENDS I was able to tease out the spangram, YEARBOOK, and then it all made a bit more sense. Though EYES and HAIR still seem a bit odd. How did you do on your Strands today? Let me know on Twitter and Facebook. Be sure to check out my blog for my daily Wordle guides as well as all my other writing about TV shows, streaming guides, movie reviews, video game coverage and much more. Thanks for stopping by!
