NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, May 17 (game #706)

Date:
Fri, 16 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 Friday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers
for Friday, May 17 (game #705) .

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

Today's NYT Connections words are MACARONI ANIMAL KING MAIL RULER SCOOTER PLANT EMPEROR BEAKER BACTERIA COMMERCE SYRINGE FUNGUS SIGNATURE CHINSTRAP PROTRACTOR NYT Connections today (game #706) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW:
Classification of organisms GREEN: Tools to measure BLUE: Varieties of flightless bird PURPLE: Precede with a letter

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 #706) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: MEMBER OF A KINGDOM IN TAXONOMY GREEN: GRADUATED INSTRUMENTS BLUE: KINDS OF PENGUINS PURPLE: "E" THINGS

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #706) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #706, are YELLOW: MEMBER OF A
KINGDOM IN TAXONOMY ANIMAL, BACTERIA, FUNGUS, PLANT GREEN: GRADUATED INSTRUMENTS BEAKER, PROTRACTOR, RULER, SYRINGE BLUE: KINDS OF PENGUINS CHINSTRAP, EMPEROR, KING, MACARONI PURPLE: "E" THINGS COMMERCE, MAIL,
SCOOTER, SIGNATURE My rating: Easy My score: Perfect

A clear run for me today. My only hesitation was over KINDS OF PENGUINS, as I knew CHINSTRAP, EMPEROR and KING but took a guess with MACARONI as there seemed no likely alternatives.

Meanwhile, I got the group MEMBER OF A KINGDOM IN TAXONOMY thinking the four words described an evolutionary scale from BACTERIA to FUNGUS to PLANT to ANIMAL. Wrong, but also right.

E THINGS is somewhat of a cruel category as there are hundreds of products that have the same prefix. In fact, think of anything and its likely that theres also an E version of it from eAlarm to E-Zips.

How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Friday, May 16, game #705) YELLOW: KINDS OF PLANTS HERB, SHRUB, TREE, VINE GREEN: DISCONTINUE DISSOLVE, END, SCRAP, SUNSET BLUE: ASSOCIATED WITH BULLS MICHAEL JORDAN, RODEO, TAURUS, WALL STREET PURPLE: ENDING WITH BUILDING MATERIALS HOLLYWOOD, HOURGLASS, KUBRICK, NEUROPLASTIC 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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