For the Sunday, May 4, 2025 NYT Connections puzzle, game #693, the four groups are overcooked-meat qualities, electric-guitar playing, bubble-tea ingredients, and planet names with their first letters changed. Hints come first below; the full answer grid follows.
Hints for Connections #693
Use these in order if you want to preserve the puzzle’s challenge:
- One group describes what overcooked meat can feel or taste like.
- For another, think of ways to play electric guitar.
- A third group points to a popular drink and what goes into it.
- For the last group, look for planet names whose first letters have been changed.
Connections answers for May 4, 2025
The grid was CHEWY, NOODLE, CARS, DARTH, JAM, BOBA, TOUGH, SHRED, SOLO, DRY, SUGAR, BLUTO, TEA, GENUS, STRINGY, and MILK. The complete groups were:
| Color | Category | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Yellow | Qualities of overcooked meat | CHEWY, DRY, STRINGY, TOUGH |
| Green | Play some electric guitar | JAM, NOODLE, SHRED, SOLO |
| Blue | Ingredients in bubble tea | BOBA, MILK, SUGAR, TEA |
| Purple | Planets or dwarf planet with first letter changed | BLUTO → PLUTO, CARS → MARS, DARTH → EARTH, GENUS → VENUS |
The purple group works by changing each word’s first letter to make a planetary name. Pluto is the dwarf planet in that set. The group labels and answers are reported by iTechGuides, TechRadar, and Parade.
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The tempting Star Wars connection
DARTH, SOLO, BOBA, and CHEWY look like a Star Wars set, and the May 4 date makes that interpretation especially tempting. It is a decoy: those four words belong to four different groups in the actual solution. Parade also notes the apparent Star Wars connection as a red herring.
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