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 Monday puzzle then click here: NYT Connections Tips & Answers for Monday, May 18 (Game #1072).
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.
NYT Connections Today (Game #1073): Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- FOREVER
- LOUNGE
- COOK
- SURGEON
- NURSE
- DOCTOR
- FUDGE
- SUPERFUDGE
- CRY
- BLUBBER
- JOGGING
- ALTER
- FOUNDER
- BABBLE
- DEENIE
- TEETHE
NYT Connections Today (Game #1073) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some leads for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: children’s activities
- GREEN: Stealth changes
- BLUE: Novels by a prolific author
- PURPLE: all the fish
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 #1073) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: THINGS BABIES DO
- GREEN: DECEPTIVELY MODIFY
- BLUE: JUDY BLUME BOOKS
- PURPLE: FISH LESS ONE LETTER
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL 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 BALTER, CRY, NURSE, DIE
- GREEN: DECEPTIVELY MODIFY ALTER, COOK, DOCTOR, FUDGE
- BLUE: JUDY BLUME BOOKS BLUBBER, DEENIE, FOREVER, SUPERFUDGE
- PURPLE: FISH LESS ONE LETTER FOUNDER, SALON, SURGEON, TROTE
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 2 errors
Frankly, I feel incredibly lucky to have beaten this game after making only two mistakes, as I was completely stumped at the beginning and remained that way throughout.
There were so many crossovers here and naturally I fell for the most obvious one: linking DOCTOR, NURSE, SURGEON and COOK with the reasoning that they are all hospital jobs. Thinking about it, COOK didn’t really work.
Then I thought we were looking for four words about tears, so BABBLE, CRY, BLUBBER, and DENTHE made sense. Fortunately, this gave me a “one away.”
How I managed to get all four FISH MINUS ONE LETTER is a mystery as I was staggering around in the dark. In fact, you could say my entire game was a SUPERFUDGE.
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Monday, May 18, Game #1072)
- YELLOW: HOMOPHONES PAR, PAR, PERA, PÈRE
- GREEN: BREAKOUT HIT, CRACK, POP, SPLIT
- BLUE: MLB PLAYER FATHER, RED, ROYAL, TWIN
- PURPLE: ANAGRAMS OF FRUIT CHEAP, EARP, LUMP, WIKI
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.
