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NYT Connections puzzle #700 for Sunday, May 11, 2025, groups the words into “MAKE HAPPY,” “EVADE,” “COMMON VIDEO GAME FEATURES,” and “MOTHER ___.” Start with the hints below if you want to solve it yourself; the full answer key follows.
Hints for Connections #700
- One group means “make happy.”
- One group contains ways to evade something.
- One group consists of familiar video game features.
- The last group completes phrases that begin with “Mother.”
Answers for Sunday, May 11
Spoilers below: the four completed groups are listed here.
| Category | Words |
|---|---|
| MAKE HAPPY | DELIGHT, PLEASE, SUIT, TICKLE |
| EVADE | DODGE, DUCK, SHAKE, SKIRT |
| COMMON VIDEO GAME FEATURES | BOSS, HEALTH, LEVEL, POWER-UP |
| MOTHER ___ | EARTH, GOOSE, MAY I, SUPERIOR |
How the groups connect
MAKE HAPPY
DELIGHT, PLEASE, SUIT, and TICKLE can each mean to please or make someone happy.
EVADE
DODGE, DUCK, SHAKE, and SKIRT describe ways to avoid or get away from something. Consider the four words together: DUCK and SHAKE may suggest other associations, but each fits the evasion theme in this set.
#1 Best Overall
COMMON VIDEO GAME FEATURES
BOSS, HEALTH, LEVEL, and POWER-UP are familiar elements of video games: players may face a boss, track health, progress through levels, and collect power-ups.
MOTHER ___
Each remaining word completes a familiar phrase: Mother Earth, Mother Goose, Mother May I, and Mother Superior. This is a phrase-completion pattern rather than a shared synonym.
Rank #2
A note on the word list
Tom’s Guide’s contemporaneous guide appears to transcribe SNAKE in its original word list, while its own solution and explanation use SHAKE. The other date-specific answer guides also give SHAKE in the EVADE group, so SHAKE is the answer here. (Tom’s Guide; Try Hard Guides; Connections Hint)
Independent reader supportYour contribution helps us test, update, and keep practical guides available for everyone.Puzzle #700 context
Tom’s Guide reported a Connections Companion difficulty score of 2.8 out of 5 for puzzle #700 in 2025. That is the Companion rating as reported by the guide, not an official NYT score independently confirmed by the Help Center. The NYT Help Center describes Connections Companion as a forum for daily puzzle support, hints, comments, and difficulty scores. (Tom’s Guide; NYT Help Center)
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The Help Center says the Connections archive reaches back to June 12, 2023, for All Access and Games subscribers. Check the current eligibility details there before relying on archive access. (NYT Help Center)
For broader game context, a 2024 study by Angel Yahir Loredo Lopez, Tyler McDonald, and Ali Emami describes a 358-puzzle Connections benchmark and reports results from experiments on a selected sample of 100 puzzles. In that study’s one-try condition, human participants scored 39.33%; with full hints, they scored 60.67%. These figures describe the study’s sample and conditions, not overall daily-player success or puzzle #700. (2024 benchmark paper)
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