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Spoiler notice: The hints come first; the complete groups and answers appear farther down.
Progressive hints for Connections #699
Pause after each hint if you want to solve as much as possible without seeing the category names or answers.
- Yellow: Dear endings.
- Green: Missing something.
- Blue: Full of it.
- Purple: Add a word that rhymes with “grip.”
Today’s Connections categories
- Yellow: LETTER SIGN-OFFS
- Green: WITHOUT
- Blue: VIGOR
- Purple: __ STRIP
Full answer key
The four groups for Saturday, May 10, 2025 are:
- Yellow — LETTER SIGN-OFFS: BEST, CHEERS, LOVE, SINCERELY.
- Green — WITHOUT: ABSENT, MINUS, SANS, WANTING.
- Blue — VIGOR: BEANS, ENERGY, PEP, ZIP.
- Purple — __ STRIP: BACON, COMIC, LANDING, SUNSET.
For purple, each word forms a familiar phrase with “strip”: bacon strip, comic strip, landing strip, and Sunset Strip. The other groups connect through ways of signing off a letter, meanings associated with being without something, and words for energy or liveliness.
#1 Best Overall
All 16 words on the board
BEANS · MINUS · LOVE · ENERGY · ZIP · BEST · COMIC · SANS · SINCERELY · WANTING · BACON · SUNSET · ABSENT · LANDING · CHEERS · PEP
How Connections works—and why the date matters
In Connections, players sort 16 words into four groups of four that share a connection. The New York Times Help Center says each puzzle has exactly one solution, while the words can be tricky because they may appear to fit more than one category. Editors curate the words and categories using the Oxford Dictionary. Read the NYT Help Center’s game description.
Rank #2
The game is released at midnight in each player’s timezone, according to the NYT Help Center. That means someone searching for “today’s” puzzle may be looking at a different game depending on when and where they play. For this answer, the unambiguous identifiers are Saturday, May 10, 2025, and puzzle #699.
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