Looking for some Connections hints to help with today’s puzzle on Saturday, 16th May? You want Connections to be a light workout after all, not a marathon sprint!
Every now and then, though. Connections can really trip you up. If you’ve found yourself in that situation today, let us help you out.
How to play Connections
Connections is one of the most popular (and challenging) daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). The aim of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, where each group of four words has a common theme.
For instance, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter”, and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or to take another example, “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go”, and “Stick” are all words which commonly come just before the word “Figure”. These are the kinds of Connections you’ll need to make to solve the puzzle.
Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the various words together – but be wary, because a lot of the time there are deceptive red herring connections placed purely to throw you off! To win the game, you have to find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is revealed automatically.
Each of the four groups in each day’s Connections puzzle is also assigned a different colour, which represents how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colours are: Yellow (Easiest), Green (Easy), Blue (Medium), and Purple (Hardest).
Click here to play today’s Connections puzzle!
Connections hint: Today’s Connections words
Below you’ll find various hints for today’s Connections. Each of the below hints will make it progressively easier for you to solve today’s puzzle. First we’ll reveal the words in today’s Connections, followed by our Connections hint for each group. Then we’ll reveal one word inside each group, followed by the groups themselves; and finally, at the bottom of this page, we’ll reveal the answers to today’s Connections puzzle. Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
- THERMOSTAT
- NESQUICK
- ALLEGRO
- BASSOON
- BELFAST
- COUPE
- FIDDLE
- FLUTE
- FORTE
- LARGO
- MESS
- PIANO
- PLAY
- STEIN
- TINKER
- TUMBLER
Connections hint for Saturday 16th May
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow hint: Raise a glass!
- Green hint: Meddling activities.
- Blue hint: Notes for the performer.
- Purple hint: Rushing at the end.
- Extra hint 1: Some words are hidden inside others…
- Extra hint 2: Every group except purple has at least one word containing the letter ‘P’
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Stein
- Green: Tinker
- Blue: Allegro
- Purple: Belfast
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!
Connections hints: All of today’s Connections groups
If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four correct Connections groups – the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.
Here are the Connections groups for today:
- Yellow: Glassware
- Green: Mess Around (With)
- Blue: Music Performance Directions
- Purple: Ending In Synonyms for ‘ASAP’
Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections answer lies ahead!
Connections answer today
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Saturday, 16th May:
- Yellow: Glassware (Coupe, Flute, Stein, Tumbler)
- Green: Mess Around (With) (Fiddle, Mess, Play, Tinker)
- Blue: Music Performance Directions (Allegro, Forte, Largo, Piano)
- Purple: Ending In Synonyms for ‘ASAP’ (Bassoon, Belfast, Nesquick, Thermostat)
And that’s a wrap for the Connections puzzle this Saturday! Now you can get on with the rest of your chores, errands, socializing, or just plain relaxing. And you can feel good about it too knowing that you’ve already done your brain teaser for the day! This one was perfect for that. Not too tough, but definitely not easy either.
I usually struggle with the purple group most, but in an uncommon turn of events that one was the first to fall into place for me! I guess I can blame that on my limited knowledge of music performance directions. But hey, at least I am more knowledgeable on that subject after this puzzle!
Congratulations if you got today’s Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you didn’t succeed today, don’t worry – a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!