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It’s a new day and that means a new puzzle wall to solve in the New York Times’sConnectionsgame. If you’re looking to save your streak and only want to nail down that last pesky category, don’t worry - we have all the hints you could need.
You’ll find everything you need below, from vague hints as to what you should be looking for to the outright answers. Whether you’re looking for a nudge in the right direction or a sneaky way to preserve your blemish-free record, you’ve come to the right place.
If you’re here by mistake and instead need the answers forMay 10,click here.
Category Hints
Today’s puzzle is pretty devilish.
We’ll present these hints from theeasiest category to the hardest, as prescribed by the puzzle itself - Yellow, Green, Blue, then Purple.
If you want today’s category hints,click below! These will not spoil the actual names of the categories but will nudge you in the right direction.
Today’syellow categoryis what you came to see. The most famous of a group.
Today’sgreen categoryrelates to a fictional creature and how you’d kill it, traditionally.
Today’sblue categoryrelates to how people refer to ‘fake’ news that’s meant to make you laugh.
Today’spurple categoryhas words that can all be preceded by the same word. Think ‘a very large hunk of wood used to hit people’ or ‘an exclusive group’.
Herring Watch:Words followed by ‘men’, types of metal, and religious symbols are not categories. For the Brits out there, don’t be tempted to put The Sun and The Star into the fake news category. Believe me, I tried.
Today’s Answers
We took a very long time to find even a single category today, and finished with only two lives remaining.
