NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, May 7 (game #696)

Date:
Tue, 06 May 2025 14:00:00 +0000

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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Looking for a different day? 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 Tuesday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, May 6 (game #695) .

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.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.

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 #696) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are CHORAL CUPS KNIT SAVE RECOVER PURL BUT QUARTS SWORDS BESIDES MEND PENTACLES OPEL HEAL WANDS EXCEPT NYT Connections today (game #696) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Without
GREEN: Improving after accident BLUE: In magic pack of of cards PURPLE:
Sounds precious

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 #696) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: NOT
INCLUDING GREEN: GET BETTER, AS A BROKEN BONE BLUE: TAROT MINOR ARCANA SUITS PURPLE: HOMOPHONES OF GEMSTONES

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #696) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #696, are YELLOW: NOT INCLUDING BESIDES, BUT, EXCEPT, SAVE GREEN: GET BETTER, AS A BROKEN BONE HEAL, KNIT, MEND, RECOVER BLUE: TAROT MINOR ARCANA SUITS CUPS, PENTACLES, SWORDS, WANDS PURPLE: HOMOPHONES OF GEMSTONES CHORAL, OPEL, PURL, QUARTS My rating: Hard My score: Fail

Todays round of Connections was incredibly hard, so congratulations to anyone who got it.

The only group I managed to find was the easiest yellow one. Even with this I had uncertainty over including SAVE, which didnt quite seem to match the
other three words.

However, I completely floundered with the other three groups. I suspected
that PENTACLES had something to do with witchcraft so I tried to conjure up some group with WANDS and assorted others.

Unfortunately, I have no knowledge of tarot cards at all, let alone the members of the MINOR ARCANA SUITS. This feels quite niche knowledge for a
blue group.

My other blind alley was thinking that CUPS and QUARTS were in a measurements foursome and that there were some knitting terms beyond KNIT and PERL.

An all-round disaster. Hope you did better.

How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, May 6, game #695) YELLOW: SILENCE CALM, HUSH, PEACE, STILL GREEN: TENNIS COMPETITION UNITS GAME, MATCH, SET, TOURNAMENT BLUE: COMPARATIVELY SMALL BABY, COMPACT, MINUTE, TOY PURPLE: STARTING WITH SYNONYMS FOR "TEASE" KIDNEY, MOCKINGBIRD, RAZZMATAZZ, RIBBON 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.



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