NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, May 23 (game #712)

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Thu, 22 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 Thursday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, May 22 (game #711) .

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

Today's NYT Connections words are STONE FIBER MARBLE EYELINER BLOWOUT MAKEUP POUND BASH NATURE GLASSES BLAST DRAM NEBULA OUNCE CHARACTER RAVE NYT Connections today (game #712) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Going large GREEN: Your disposition BLUE: UK measurements PURPLE: Feline style

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 #712) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: QUITE THE PARTY GREEN: ONE'S CONSTITUTION BLUE: BRITISH IMPERIAL UNITS OF WEIGHT
PURPLE: WHAT "CAT'S EYE" CAN BE USED TO DESCRIBE

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #712) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #712, are YELLOW: QUITE THE PARTY BASH, BLAST, BLOWOUT, RAVE GREEN: ONE'S CONSTITUTION CHARACTER, FIBER,
MAKEUP, NATURE BLUE: BRITISH IMPERIAL UNITS OF WEIGHT DRAM, OUNCE, POUND, STONE PURPLE: WHAT "CAT'S EYE" CAN BE USED TO DESCRIBE EYELINER, GLASSES, MARBLE, NEBULA My rating: Easy My score: Perfect

BRITISH IMPERIAL UNITS OF WEIGHT is something some people in the UK get bizarrely exercised over or at least they did about 20 years ago, when greengrocers feared that measuring potatoes in kilograms would lead to the collapse of society, and bar owners fretted over serving 700ml of lager instead of a pint.

For people like this, accepting the metric system was tantamount to surrendering to Hitler, Napoleon and Julius Caesar.

Years on we remain in a weird limbo where things are measured in both British imperial and metric, where some people think they weigh 15 STONE and other people think they weigh 95kg. A similar inertia over the metric system exists in the US, but unlike the UK its not tied up in ONES CONSTITUTION.

Meanwhile, the inclusion of MARBLE in WHAT "CAT'S EYE" CAN BE USED TO
DESCRIBE puzzled me initially, as I was thinking of the marble stone rather than the marble game.

How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Thursday, May 22, game #711) YELLOW: FINE PRINT
ASTERISK, CATCH, CONDITION, STRINGS GREEN: CHARACTERS WITH GREEN SKIN
ELPHABA, GRINCH, HULK, SHREK BLUE: FEATURES OF THE NATIONAL MALL IN D.C. CAPITOL, MALL, OBELISK, POOL PURPLE: FAMOUS RIDDLE-GIVERS BRIDGE TROLL, MAD HATTER, RIDDLER, SPHINX 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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