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Forbes
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
NYT ‘Connections' Hints And Answers For Monday, May 12
Find the links between the words to win today's game of Connections. Before we get to today's Connections hints and answers, here's Sunday's: Hey there, Connectors! Welcome to the start of a new week. We have a little tradition around these parts. We kick off the Monday edition of the column with an upbeat song. The whole idea is to hopefully get you dancing around a little. Maybe loosen up those hips a bit. Perhaps get those endorphins flowing. This week, we're going to go back to 2012 and a song from a pair of Canadian icons. 'Closer' is one of Tegan and Sara's biggest hits. It's a cracking dance-pop tune: Before we begin, we have a great little community on Discord, where we chat about NYT Connections, the rest of the NYT games and all kinds of other stuff. Everyone who has joined has been lovely. It's a fun hangout spot, and you're more than welcome to hang out with us. Discord is also the best way to give me any feedback about the column, especially on the rare (or not-so-rare) occasions that I mess something up. I don't look at the comments or Twitter much. You can also read my weekend editions of this column at my new newsletter, Pastimes. 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 Today's NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, May 12 are coming right up. Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT's website or Games app. You're presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part. There's only one solution for each puzzle, and you'll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them. Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay. Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you're incorrect, you'll lose a life. If you're close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you're one word away from getting it right, but you'll still need to figure out which one to swap. If you make four mistakes, it's game over. Let's make sure that doesn't happen with the help of some hints, and, if you're really struggling, today's Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it's easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats. If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication's Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed. Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my hints via Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query. Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today's Connections groups, I'll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them. Today's 16 words are... And the hints for today's Connections groups are: Need some extra help? Be warned: we're starting to get into spoiler territory. Today's Connections groups are... Spoiler alert! Don't scroll any further down the page until you're ready to find out today's Connections answers. This is your final warning! Today's Connections answers are... I was very close to back-to-back reverse rainbows but I got the yellow and green order wrong. Rats! Nevertheless, my streak is up to 76 wins. Here's how I fared: 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 I didn't have a clue what CAROM meant, so I left that well enough alone at the outset. PUCKER spoke to me first, as that's something you can do with your lips. I found the other three words pretty quickly for the purples. I thought that PAGE VIEW might have something to do with counters (hey remember those old Geocities sites everyone had?), which would make sense with BANK and CASH REGISTER, but it wasn't quite coming together. As I looked around, I realized I was on the wrong track as VISIT and HIT made sense with PAGE VIEW. So too did VISIT, and that got me the blues. From there, it was pretty straightforward. The yellows went together easily enough, since BANK clearly had to go with the other group. That left the greens. As it turns out, a CAROM is a shot in billiards in which the cue ball strikes two different object balls, or just a term for something bouncing off a surface. It's also the name of a seed that's used as a spice. That's all there is to it for today's Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Tuesday's game if you need them. P.S. I wasn't quite sure where to go for today's song. I have a couple of other ones in mind for the coming days, but they don't quite fit with the upbeat Monday theme (and I'm otherwise unable to stop listening to Electric Callboy). So I turned to my trusty mega playlist and after clicking the shuffle button three times, I had a winner. You really can't go wrong with LCD Soundsystem: Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Call someone you love! Please follow my blog for more coverage of NYT Connections and other word games, and even some video game news, insights and analysis. It helps me out a lot! Sharing this column with other people who play Connections would be appreciated too. You can also read my weekend editions of this column at my new newsletter, Pastimes.
CBC
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Bryan Adams to help kick off Departure Festival, a reimagined Canadian Music Week
The inaugural Departure Festival gets underway today in Toronto. Formerly known as Canadian Music Week (CMW), the six-day event is moving forward with a new name, different owners and a broadened scope. While it once catered almost solely to the music industry with panels and events, this year's programming includes elements dedicated to standup comedy, fashion and technology. There will be appearances by music stars Bryan Adams, Tegan and Sara, Arkells frontman Max Kerman and Shaggy, who will sit down for fireside chats. Others on the bill include Pete Holmes and Dave Chappelle, who are part of the comedy program. The Departure Festival runs until Sunday, with most of its events happening at Toronto's Hotel X. Last week, the former president of CMW resolved a legal action he had launched against the new owners, accusing them of not following through with their side of a $2-million payment.
