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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Monday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT 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 in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (game #1073) - today's words
Today's NYT Connections words are…
- FOREVER
- SALON
- COOK
- SURGEON
- NURSE
- DOCTOR
- FUDGE
- SUPERFUDGE
- CRY
- BLUBBER
- TROT
- ALTER
- FOUNDER
- BABBLE
- DEENIE
- TEETHE
NYT Connections today (game #1073) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Infant activities
- GREEN: Sneaky changes
- BLUE: Novels by a prolific author
- PURPLE: All fsh
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…
NYT Connections today (game #1073) - hint #2 - group answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: THINGS BABIES DO
- GREEN: MODIFY DECEPTIVELY
- BLUE: JUDY BLUME BOOKS
- PURPLE: FISH MINUS A LETTER
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #1073) - the answers
The answers to today's Connections, game #1073, are…
- YELLOW: THINGS BABIES DO BABBLE, CRY, NURSE, TEETHE
- GREEN: MODIFY DECEPTIVELY ALTER, COOK, DOCTOR, FUDGE
- BLUE: JUDY BLUME BOOKS BLUBBER, DEENIE, FOREVER, SUPERFUDGE
- PURPLE: FISH MINUS A LETTER FOUNDER, SALON, SURGEON, TROT
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 2 mistakes
Frankly, I feel incredibly lucky to have got through this game after making just two mistakes, as I was completely stumped at the beginning and remained so throughout.
There were so many crossovers here and naturally I fell for the most obvious of them, linking DOCTOR, NURSE, SURGEON and COOK with the reasoning that they are all jobs in hospitals. On reflection, COOK didn’t really work.
Next, I thought that 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 A LETTER is a mystery, as I was floundering in the dark. In fact you could say my entire game was a SUPERFUDGE.
Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Monday, May 18, game #1072)
- YELLOW: HOMOPHONES PAIR, PARE, PEAR, PÈRE
- GREEN: RUPTURE BLOW, CRACK, POP, SPLIT
- BLUE: MLB PLAYER PADRE, RED, ROYAL, TWIN
- PURPLE: FRUIT ANAGRAMS CHEAP, EARP, LUMP, WIKI
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.