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Today's puzzle wants you to quiz your pop culture knowledge.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for May 25 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,079. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,078, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.
Alternatively, visit our how to play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.
What is Connections
Solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.
Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Today's Connection Grid and Words
- Brow
- Cap
- Lid
- Cya
- Whit
- Atm
- Pin
- Jot
- Lash
- Lol
- Scrap
- Shirt
- Sticker
- Ball
- Tia
- Shred
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Giveaways
- 🟩 Green: A little
- 🟦 Blue: Shorter
- 🟪 Purple: Seeing
Today's Connections Group Hints
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Common Promo Items
- 🟩 Green: Tiny Bit
- 🟦 Blue: Texting Abbreviations
- 🟪 Purple: Eye___
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Today's Connections answers
The Connections answers on May 24 for puzzle #1,078 are harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 3 out of 5.
- 🟨 Common Promo Items: Cap, Pin, Shirt, Sticker
- 🟩 Tiny Bit: Jot, Scrap, Shred, Whit
- 🟦 Texting Abbreviations: Atm, Cya, Lol, Tia
- 🟪 Eye___: Ball, Brow, Lash, Lid
Today's Connections was super hard for me, as I got stuck on the Tiny Bit clue after solving the texting abbreviations and promo items very quickly. I've never heard the word jot used for a little bit — I've only known it as writing something down.
Still, after a bit of brute force and trial and error, I did eventually piece it together, which only left me with the purple section (though, in retrospect, eye ___ would probably have been an easier one to tackle, given how stuck I was for a while).
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Farm Fixtures: Coop, Pen, Shed, Stable
- 🟩 Labor Protest Actions: March, Picket, Rally, Strike
- 🟦 Objects Used In Ritual Performances: Drum, Mask, Rattle, Staff
- 🟪 Possessive Adjectives Plus A Letter: Herb, Hiss, Itsy, Mya
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,078, which had a difficulty rating of 2.5 out of 5.
Today's Connections was pretty easy for me despite the relatively high difficulty rating.
I figured out the farm fixtures section first in just a couple of minutes. Nothing about them was overly tricky, so they came together for me. The same was true of the green labor protest section.
From there, I actually connected the purple section based on the four of them seeming to be partial words, which turned out to be correct, with possessive adjectives as the extra-letter clue.
Finally, it was just a matter of locking in the blue category to finish Connections successfully.
