{"id":937056,"date":"2026-05-04T12:12:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/937056\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:12:24","slug":"todays-nyt-connections-hints-answers-for-may-4-1058","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/937056\/","title":{"rendered":"Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers for May 4 #1058"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking for the most recent<\/strong> Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints<\/a>, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. <\/p>\n

Today’s NYT\u00a0Connections puzzle<\/a>\u00a0is a tricky one. The purple group requires you to do some mental twisting of letters when you look at the words. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers. <\/p>\n

The Times has a Connections Bot<\/a>, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress<\/a>, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak. <\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong>\u00a0Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time<\/a><\/p>\n

Hints for today’s Connections groups <\/p>\n

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group. <\/p>\n

Yellow group hint<\/strong>: Way past done.<\/p>\n

Green group hint<\/strong>: Rock out.<\/p>\n

Blue group hint<\/strong>: Trendy tea.<\/p>\n

Purple group hint<\/strong>: Space jam.<\/p>\n

Answers for today’s Connections groups <\/p>\n

Yellow group<\/strong>: Qualities of overcooked meat.<\/p>\n

Green group<\/strong>: Play some electric guitar.<\/p>\n

Blue group<\/strong>: Ingredients in bubble tea.<\/p>\n

Purple group<\/strong>: Planets\/dwarf planet with first letter changed.<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong> Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words<\/a><\/p>\n

What are today’s Connections answers? \"completed <\/p>\n

The completed NYT Connections puzzle for May 4, 2026.<\/p>\n

NYT\/Screenshot by CNET The yellow words in today’s Connections <\/p>\n

The theme is qualities of overcooked meat. The four answers are chewy, dry, stringy and tough.<\/p>\n

The green words in today’s Connections <\/p>\n

The theme is play some electric guitar. The four answers are jam, noodle, shred and solo.<\/p>\n

The blue words in today’s Connections <\/p>\n

The theme is ingredients in bubble tea. The four answers are boba, milk, sugar and tea.<\/p>\n

The purple words in today’s Connections <\/p>\n

The theme is planets\/dwarf planet with first letter changed. The four answers are Bluto (Pluto), cars (Mars), Darth (Earth) and genus (Venus).<\/p>\n

Toughest Connections puzzles<\/strong><\/p>\n

We’ve made a note of some of the toughest Connections puzzles<\/a> so far. Maybe they’ll help you see patterns in future puzzles.<\/p>\n

#5: Included “things you can set,” such as mood, record, table and volleyball.<\/p>\n

#4: Included “one in a dozen,” such as egg, juror, month and rose.<\/p>\n

#3: Included “streets on screen,” such as Elm, Fear, Jump and Sesame.<\/p>\n

#2: Included “power ___” such as nap, plant, Ranger and trip.<\/p>\n

#1: Included “things that can run,” such as candidate, faucet, mascara and nose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-937056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116516248008961646","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}