While yesterday’s NYT Connections didn’t have any Star Wars references, it has some other ones today. If you want help finding them, then keep reading. So with that, let’s begin breaking down all the hints, categories, and answers for the NYT Connections puzzle for May 5!
Hint for Today’s Connections Themes
Let’s begin with some quick hints for today’s Connections themes. Check them out and see if you can guess any.
- Yellow Category – Nothing beats old-fashioned hard work
- Green Category – You love this with cream cheese
- Blue Category – Cinema buffs will know this
- Purple Category – Even villains come in all shapes and sizes
Additional Hint: Have you seen the Mummy?
We wish we could go into more detail here, but these hints are the best we can share. They are all related to the categories for the puzzle, so think hard before you scroll down below to see the exact category names. We also think you don’t need an additional hint for today. However, if you still can’t find them and need more help, maybe these tricks to solve NYT Connections will help.
Spoiler Warning #1
While this section included hints for the categories, the next section names them directly. Only proceed if ready.
Today’s Connections Category Names
If you still can’t figure out the NYT Connections category names, keep reading for more help.
- Yellow – SOMETHING GAINED FROM HARD WORK
- Green – KINDS OF BAGELS
- Blue – CONTRIBUTE TO A MOVIE
- Purple – STARTS OF MONSTERS
We hope you can guess the words under each category now. However, If you still cannot and need more help, keep reading.
Spoiler Warning #2 The next section includes the answer for today’s puzzle; you will see all the answers in their categories. This is your last chance to solve it yourself.
Connections Answer for May 5
Are you still stuck with the puzzle? In that case, the answers to today’s Connections are:
- SOMETHING GAINED FROM HARD WORK – Benefit, Fruit, Return, Reward
- KINDS OF BAGELS – Egg, Everything, Plain, Poppy
- CONTRIBUTE TO A MOVIE – Act, Direct, Produce, Write
- STARTS OF MONSTERS – Frank, Mum, Vamp, Were
The NYT Connections puzzle today, too, remained an easy solution. I began by getting the harder Blue category first, but that’s only because I am a huge cinema buff. The Yellow category came next and while I’m not tooting my own horn, I do love to work hard.
However, I’ll confess that I’ve only ever eaten a bagel with cream cheese once. As such, getting the Green category was more difficult. Thankfully, I ended up getting it anyway.
With only four words left, I combined them all to get the monstrous Purple category and the NYT Connections puzzle for May 5.
NYT Connections Past Answers
We hope the answers above helped you solve the NYT Connections puzzle for today. However, if you stumbled here by accident, there’s a chance you might be looking for answers to previous puzzles.
Well, for such times and more, we have you covered. Feel free to go through our directory to NYT Connections for the last three days for all the help you need.
What about you? How was your experience with today’s puzzle? Where did you get stuck if you did? Let us know in the comments below.
