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NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, May 6 (game #1060)

My clues will help you solve the NYT's Connections puzzle today and keep that streak going

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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 5 (game #1059).

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.

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NYT Connections today (game #1060) - today's words

[NB: you're going to need to look at the image above for this one]

[two squares, each containing a circle in the centre]

[a square with two smaller squares in the top right corner, each containing a rectangle]

[a rectangle containing three smaller rectangles, the left and right of which contain a circle]

[two circles linked by a long oval, above another one]

[Two vertical lines close to each other on the left, and the same on the right]

NYT Connections today (game #1060) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

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 #1060) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

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NYT Connections today (game #1060) - the answers

The answers to today's Connections, game #1060, are…

YELLOW: FOUND IN A CASINO CARDS, CHIPS, DICE, SLOT MACHINE

GREEN: WAYS TO FASTEN THINGS BUCKLE, BUTTON, LACES, ZIPPER

BLUE: SEEN IN A BOWLING ALLEY BOWLING BALL, BOWLING PINS, LANE, SCORECARD

PURPLE: FLAG DESIGNS CIRCLE, HORIZONTAL BISECTION, HORIZONTAL TRISECTION, VERTICAL TRISECTION

As is the case whenever Connection does anything different, my first reaction is discombobulation. Experience, however, has taught me to pause and look carefully, because often games like this turn out to be the simplest of all.

That was almost the case today. I saw the flags immediately, but missed the tile with a plain circle indicating Japan initially — picking what was supposed to be bowling lanes.

Just one mistake and a purple first from a baffling set of pictograms. I’m pretty satisfied with that to be honest. Hope you saw the threads too.

Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, May 5, game #1059)

GREEN: INVOLUNTARY ACTIONS BLINK, HICCUP, SHIVER, SNEEZE

BLUE: KINDS OF KNOTS BEND, BOWLINE, HITCH, SHEEPSHANK

PURPLE: STARTING WITH UNITS IN COMPETITIONS GAMELAN, MATCHSTICK, POINTER, SETBACK

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.

Johnny is a freelance pop culture journalist who has been writing about the internet, music, football and famous people since the i Phone was just a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye. Previously known by the pseudonym the Pop Detective, his journalistic career began making up stories about Madonna's addiction to sausage rolls (this is not true by the way). A man of few talents, his career is rich and various and includes the highs of interviewing Elton John and Blur; and the lows of interviewing Right Said Fred, appearing on a Channel 5 documentary about Peter Kay, and fact-checking the instruction manual for a German cooker. Somehow still affording to live in North London he is at his happiest riding his bicycle and shouting at pigeons.

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