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NYT Connections #719 was the Friday, May 30, 2025 puzzle. Below are four spoiler-light clues, followed by the complete groups and answers. The purple category is a phrase-completion play on “shack.”
Spoiler-light hints for Connections #719
Try each clue before revealing the word groups:
- A long, slender piece of wood.
- Items that can be wrapped or packaged in a similar manner.
- Things you might receive at a special event or job conference.
- Words that come before a common five-letter noun for a roughly built house, cabin, or hut.
These clues correspond, in order, to the yellow, green, blue, and purple groups. Parade published the puzzle’s clues and answers on May 30, 2025; TechRadar independently reports the same solution.
Full answers for May 30, 2025
Spoilers below.
| Color | Category | Words | Why they fit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow | RODS | BAT, CLUB, STAFF, STICK | Each can refer to a rod. |
| Green | THEY’RE ON A ROLL! | FOIL, RIBBON, TAPE, TOILET PAPER | Each can come in roll form. |
| Blue | COMMON SWAG ITEMS | HAT, TEE, TOTE, WATER BOTTLE | These are familiar promotional giveaway items. |
| Purple | WORDS BEFORE “SHACK” | CADDY, LOVE, RADIO, SHAKE | The phrases are “Caddy Shack,” “Love Shack,” “Radio Shack,” and “Shake Shack.” |
Parade’s answer guide lists these four groups, and TechRadar cross-checks the same words and categories: Parade’s May 30, 2025 Connections answers and TechRadar’s game #719 guide.
Why the purple group is easy to misread
“Radio” can pull attention toward other associations, but the category depends on the word that follows it: “Radio Shack.” The same phrase-completion pattern explains “Caddy Shack,” “Love Shack,” and “Shake Shack.” The answer is not a shared kind of object; it is a shared second word.
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How to replay the puzzle
The New York Times Help Center lists the Games app, nytimes.com/games/connections, nytimes.com/theathletic, and the News app as places to play. It says the daily game is released at midnight in the player’s timezone. The Connections archive reaches back to June 12, 2023, and full archive access is for All Access and Games subscribers, according to the NYT Connections Help Center page. Platform details and subscriber eligibility can change.
Independent reader supportYour contribution helps us test, update, and keep practical guides available for everyone.Is there a published difficulty or solve rate for #719?
The answer-guide sources do not provide a puzzle-specific solve rate, average score, or player-difficulty statistic for #719, so there is no substantiated number to report. A 2024 paper by Angel Yahir Loredo Lopez, Tyler McDonald, and Ali Emami introduced a benchmark made from 358 Connections-derived puzzles; in the paper’s tested configurations, the top evaluated language models fell short of human performance by nearly 30%. Those are results about that research benchmark and its evaluations, not ordinary NYT players or this particular puzzle. See the authors’ 2024 arXiv paper.
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