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New York Times Connections Answers for May 7th

Today’s NYT Connections has some tough categories!

Is todayโ€™s NYT Connections giving you trouble? We got you covered, as we have all of the correct answers and categories, along with hints and tips, for today, May 7thโ€™s Connections from The New York Times. NYT Connections has been a friendly face in the daily puzzle scene since 2023 and has been a staple alongside Wordle and Strands on the website/app. In regards to todayโ€™s puzzle, we have some intriguing words and a few tough categories, especially Blue and Purple. Fortunately, we at ComicBook have played the puzzle and have everything youโ€™ll need to solve todayโ€™s Connections, including the correct words and hints.

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For The New York Timesโ€™ Connections, you are given 16 different words and your goal is to sort them into four secret categories. Pick four words or phrases that could be related and, if correct, it will group them into their common association, or connection, if you will. Each category has its own color, with Yellow being the easiest to solve, then Green, Blue, and the hardest, Purple. The categories can range from Rockstar Games titles or planets in Star Wars to stock abbreviations for companies or words with two โ€œsโ€ in them. You only get four turns to get it right and, if you run out, you lose your streak and the categories are revealed. 

Today’s NYT Connections has some tough categories.

When it comes to todayโ€™s Connections, we do continue yesterdayโ€™s easy streak, though it does feel a bit harder than that. For puzzles like todayโ€™s, keep in mind that many words can have multiple meanings, so pay attention to them as you see any matches and try not to look for the obvious unless it only has one meaning. In terms of May 7thโ€™s puzzle, the words in todayโ€™s Connections are as follows: Choral, Cups, Knit, Save, Recover, Purl, But, Quarts. Swords, Besides, Mend, Pentacles, Opel, Heal, Wands, and Except.

If you donโ€™t want to spoil the answers to each category but would like a hint, here is one for each of them: 

  • Yellow: Time heals all wounds
  • Green: Omit
  • Blue: Itโ€™s in the cards
  • Purple: Diamondโ€™s close relative (once-removed)

If you want to know the correct categories for todayโ€™s Connections, here are the themes:

  • Yellow: Get Better, as a Broken Bone
  • Green: Not Including
  • Blue: Tarot Minor Arcana Suits
  • Purple: Homophones of Gemstones

If you want to know the correct placements as to which words go into which categories, here are May 7thโ€™s Connections answers:

  • Yellow: Heal, Knit, Mend, Recover
  • Green: Besides, But, Except, Save
  • Blue: Cups, Pentacles, Swords, Wands
  • Purple: Choral, Opel, Purl, Quarts

Did you get the correct answers? What was the hardest category today? Let us know in the comments below! For everything Connections, NYT Games, and gaming, keep it here at ComicBook.