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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
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
NYT ‘Strands' Today: Hints, Spangram And Answers For Thursday, May 1st
Today's NYT Strands hints and answers Looking for Wednesday's Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here: Happy May Day, Strandistas! April is over. It came and went in the blink of an eye. Now May is here and we have just a few more weeks before summer. Time to get outside, folks. But not before we uncover some words in today's Strands grid! 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: I get around. 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 Hint: Non-motorized vehicles. Clue: You might do tricks on these. Here are the first two letters of each word: Remember, spoilers ahead! Today's spangram is: WHEELIE Here's the full list of words: Here's the completed Strands grid: Today's Strands I found WAGON pretty quickly and then I saw WHEEL and tried that, but it didn't work, which made me assume that A) this was part of the spangram and B) all the rest of the words would involve wheels. I was right on both counts. But it still took me a bit to get WHEELIE. And that's an odd choice for the spangram, quite frankly, because it implies you can do a wheelie with the various words. But really, I don't think anyone does wheelies with wagons. That's more of a BICYCLE action. I suppose WHEELIE here just means 'things with wheels' rather than the trick itself. You can do tricks with all of these, but I haven't heard of anyone doing WAGON tricks. 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
05-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
NYT ‘Strands' Today: Hints, Spangram And Answers For Sunday, April 6th
Today's NYT Strands hints and answers Looking for Saturday's Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here: Another lazy Sunday is ahead of us, dearest Strandistas. What will you do with your time? Perhaps you'll go on a lovely springtime stroll. Or kick back with one of the many new shows and movies out this weekend for your viewing pleasure. But one thing is certain: It's a good day for puzzle-solving. Let's solve today's 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. 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 Read on for today's theme and some hints to help you uncover today's words. Instead of giving you the first two letters of each word, today I'm giving out three hints instead of two. Today's Theme: The feeling is mutual Hint: Like peas in a pod. Clue: Think of the opposites of words like argue or clash. Here are the first two letters of each of today's words: Remember, spoilers ahead! Today's spangram is: GETALONG Here's the full list of words: Here's the completed Strands grid: Today's Strands Lots of words to uncover in today's Strands, and only a couple long ones. I actually had a really tough time getting this one started. I kept finding words that weren't part of the theme. After finally knocking out a few of the shorter ones, I was able to cut the grid in half with the spangram, GETALONG, and then things started to get easier. HARMONIZE was actually not the toughest word. I think the layout of words made most of these tough, like the backwards AGREE or the jagged CONNECT. Whatever the case, my brain was not with me on today's Strands but I finally got it done. 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!
