Need a hint for today’s Connections on Tuesday, 27th May? If you can’t solve the tricky Connections puzzle today, you’re probably not the only one. Finding the right themes within the word soup is tough, but we’ll offer some respite.
From hints to the full Connections answer and everything in between, this guide will give you what you’re looking for.
In this guide:
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Carousel | Candelabra | Coaster | Clock |
| Slide | Gate | Record | Teacup |
| Beast | Pick | Lounge | Pancake |
| Strum | Frisbee | Bend | Food Court |
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”.
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 for Tuesday 27th May
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: Focus on the shape.
- Green: You may see this before you fly.
- Blue: How to play a popular instrument?
- Purple: Do you see any cursed creatures?
- Extra hint 1: Every group except blue contains a word starting with ‘C’.
- Extra hint 2: ‘Coaster’ and ‘carousel’ are in different groups.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Frisbee
- Green: Lounge
- Blue: Slide
- Purple: Teacup
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!
What are 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: Round Flat Things
- Green: Airport Features
- Blue: Guitar Playing Techniques
- Purple: What Characters Were Transformed Into In “Beauty And The Beast”
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!
What is today’s Connections answer?
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Tuesday, 27th May:
- Yellow: Round Flat Things (Coaster, Frisbee, Pancake, Record)
- Green: Airport Features (Carousel, Food Court, Gate, Lounge)
- Blue: Guitar Playing Techniques (Bend, Pick, Slide, Strum)
- Purple: What Characters Were Transformed Into In “Beauty And The Beast” (Beast, Candelabra, Clock, Teacup)
That wasn’t the best start to my daily Connections puzzle; I thought I had it when I matched ‘frisbee’, ‘record’, ‘pancake’, and ‘clock’, but no. As it turns out, a clock isn’t considered flat and round enough for the yellow theme, but a coaster is. I must admit that the degree of flatness would depend on the type of clock, whereas the correct yellow words are always flat.
I fixed my mistake as soon as I realised that ‘coaster’ wasn’t about theme parks today, and then I went on to match ‘gate’ and ‘lounge’. With ‘coaster’ taken out of the equation, it eventually dawned on me that ‘carousel’ didn’t point to a merry-go-round , but rather a luggage belt. ‘Food court’ seemed like the logical fourth group member – green theme solved!
Since I know infinitely more about Beauty and the Beast than guitar-playing, I completed the purple theme before blue today. I finally found a use for that clock!
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!