Are you looking for a different day?
A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight every day for your time zone, which means some people are always playing “today’s game” while others play “yesterday’s game.” If instead you are looking for the Friday puzzle then click here: NYT Connections Tips & Answers for Friday, May 1 (Game #1055).
Good day! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers into various categories. It can be difficult, so read on if you need Connections tips.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
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NYT Connections Today (Set #1056) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- POST-IT
- TREASURY
- HERALDRY
- PLAY
- INSIDE
- MUSICAL
- MENTAL
- STATE
- SCHEDULE TABLES
- EDUCATION
- OPERA
- PSYCHIC
- EXTRASENSORY
- GLOBETROTTER
- TELEPATHIC
- BALLET
NYT Connections Today (Game #1056) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some leads for current NYT Connections groups?
- BLUE: Government sections
- GREEN: theatrical productions
- YELLOW: They can see the past
- PURPLE: Starting with large format titles
Do you need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the answers are to the four topics for today’s NYT Connections riddles…
NYT Connections Today (Game #1056) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- BLUE: US CABINET DEPARTMENTS
- GREEN: PERFORMANCES ON STAGE
- YELLOW: CLAIRVOYANT
- PURPLE: STARTING WITH NEWSPAPER NAMES
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #1056): The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #1056 are…
- BLUE: US CABINET DEPARTMENTS EDUCATION, INTERIOR, STATE, FINANCE
- GREEN: PERFORMANCES ON STAGE BALLET, MUSICAL, OPERA, WORK
- YELLOW: CLAIRVOYANT EXTRASENSORIAL, MENTAL, PSYCHIC, TELEPATHIC
- PURPLE: STARTING WITH NEWSPAPER NAMES Globetrotter, heraldry, post-it notes, multiplication tables
- My rating: Hard
- My score: Perfect
POST-IT was the big weird mosaic of this game and my initial thought was that the word note could also apply to MUSICAL.
However, after not being able to see anything else, I abandoned this thread and decided to stick POST-IT on a wall somewhere I could completely forget about it.
I managed to connect the blue group of US CABINET DEPARTMENTS not because I knew the US government but because they all seemed very official and serious.
Fortunately, this opened up the rest of the game and made it easier to spot STAGED PERFORMANCES and CLAIRVOYANT.
With three groups down, I’m put out of my misery, and while STARTING WITH NEWSPAPER NAMES is a clever connection, the Globe and Herald are rare newspaper titles in the UK, so I can be forgiven for missing them.
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Friday, May 1, Game #1055)
- YELLOW: MAKE BRIGHT POLISHING, POLISHING, SHINE, WAX
- BLUE: CHARACTERISTICS OF A BIRD’S HEAD BEAK, COMB, CREST, DOWN
- GREEN: TRANSLUCENT GOLDEN THINGS ALE, AMBER, CITRINE, HONEY
- PURPLE: NUMBERS WITH THE FIRST LETTER CHANGED HIVE, MIX, POUR, WEIGH
What are NYT connections?
NYT Connections is one of the increasingly popular word games created 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 is a little harder, blue is usually quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final question since you’ll be able to answer it through a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little breathing room.
However, it’s a little more complicated than something like Wordle and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For example, be careful with homophones and other puns that could disguise answers.
It can be played for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile devices.
