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Today's puzzle tackles all things plush and knobby, with a few good boys thrown into the mix.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for May 4 below.
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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
- Marshmallow
- Labubu
- Radio
- Chowder
- Beanie Baby
- Stove
- Pitter-Patter
- Etch a Sketch
- Teddy Bear
- Desiccant Packet
- Doddlebug
- Sweetheart
- Hacky sack
- Control Panel
- Softie
- Eye pillow
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: Tender-hearted person
- 🟩 Green: Pellet-filled things
- 🟦 Blue: Things with knobs
- 🟪 Purple: Starting with familiar names for kinds of dogs
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 4 for puzzle #1,058 are the same difficulty as yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2 out of 5.
- 🟨 Tender-hearted person: Marshmallow, softie, sweetheart, teddy bear
- 🟩 Pellet-filled things: Beanie baby, desiccant packet, eye pillow, hacky sack
- 🟦 Things with knobs: Control panel, etch a sketch, radio, stove
- 🟪 Starting with familiar names for kinds of dogs: Chowder, doodlebug, labubu, pitter-patter
Today's puzzle had so many toy names, I would have bet money on that being one of the categories. That turned out to be a red herring, though, as I quickly crossed off one (Teddy bear) alongside other sugary nicknames like marshmallow, softie, and sweetheart for yellow.
Beanie baby and hacky sack clearly went together, though it took me longer than I'd like to admit to figure out that desiccant packet and eye pillow filled in alongside them for green.
After that came blue with control panel, etch a sketch, radio, and stove.
That left purple as today's rote fill with chowder, doodlebug, labubu, and pitter-patter.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Home structures: Garage, house, porch, shed
- 🟩 Associated with 1960s counterculture: Acid, commune, free love, hippie
- 🟦 Famous revolutions in history: French, green, industrial, sexual
- 🟪 Gestures made with the index and middle fingers: Air quotes, bunny ears, fingers crossed, peace
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,057, which had a difficulty rating of 2 out of 5.
Today's puzzle dives into some far out trends.
Air quotes and bunny ears got my thinking of common gestures, and sure enough fingers crossed seemed an obvious one to lump into the mix. It took me a second, but I eventually figured out peace went along with them too to solve purple.
I've been thinking a lot about the French revolution given the state of the world, so the clue French had me thinking about rolling out the guillotines. I went hunting for other revolutions and came up with green, industrial, and sexual for blue.
At first I thought garage and house had to do with types of rock music, but when I saw porch and shed I realized the real answer was much simpler than that.
That left green as today's rote fill with acid, commune, free love, and hippie.
