For nearly a year, Connections has had players across the globe scratching their heads, deciphering the answers for the daily word puzzle.
Launched in June 2023, Connections—which has word-based gamers sorting through a series of words to sift out the links between them—is one of The New York Times' most popular puzzles. Like Wordle, a word-based game that took the English-speaking world by storm during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, Connections quickly gained both success and a dedicated fan base trying each day to crack the categories.
How To Play Connections
The idea of the game is to sort a total of 16 words into four categories, each made up of four words. The words in each category all share something in common, and it's your goal to figure out what exactly that is.
The categories differ in difficulty—those in the blue category tend to be the easiest to guess. After that, there are the yellow and green categories, and those words lighting up purple are often the hardest to guess. Some words may have several meanings and could fall into a number of categories, so watch out for those!
Once you make your selections, you can press "submit," and see if you're right. If you're not, you'll lose one of four lives, so make sure to think through your answers!
Connections #329 Clues for Sunday, May 5
To help you on your way, Newsweek has compiled a few hints to help you deduce each of today's Connections categories.
Yellow: The words in this category are all ways of describing positive results from effort.
Green: This category is looking for you to think of all the different types of bagels.
Blue: For this, have a think about how a movie is made.
Purple: All of the words in this category are shortened forms of classic monsters.
Connections #329 Answers for Sunday, May 5
Yellow Category: Something gained from hard work
Yellow Words: Reward, Fruit, Benefit, Return
Green Category: Kinds of bagels
Green Words: Egg, Everything, Poppy, Plain
Blue Category: Contribute to a movie
Blue Words: Act, Direct, Produce, Write
Purple Category: Starts of monsters
Purple Words: Frank, Mum, Vamp, Were
If you managed to guess all the answers correctly, well done! If not, there will be a new game released tomorrow with another chance to guess the categories, and Newsweek will be back with more tips and tricks to help you along!
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