Need the NYT Connections May 27 answers? These are for Tuesday, May 27, 2025, puzzle #716. Start with the spoiler-light hints below; the complete categories and word groups follow a clear spoiler warning.
Connections #716 hints for Tuesday, May 27
Connections asks players to sort 16 words into four groups of four based on a shared link. Here are the nudges without giving away the full groupings:
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- Yellow: Circular
- Green: As seen at LAX
- Blue: Ways to play with six strings
- Purple: Be Our Guest
The 16 words in Connections #716
The word bank for Tuesday’s puzzle is:
CAROUSEL · CANDELABRA · COASTER · CLOCK · SLIDE · GATE · RECORD · TEACUP · BEAST · PICK · LOUNGE · PANCAKE · STRUM · FRISBEE · BEND · FOOD COURT
FOOD COURT counts as one entry.
Spoiler warning: complete Connections answers for May 27
The categories and four word groupings for game #716 are below.
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- 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
Why the groupings can mislead
Several words can suggest more than one theme at first glance. CAROUSEL, SLIDE, TEACUP, and BEAST may evoke fairground rides, but the intended purple connection is the transformations in “Beauty and the Beast.” The yellow set also has a small interpretive wrinkle: a frisbee is not as strictly flat as the other objects, though it fits the intended round, flat-things group.
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Connections is a daily word-grouping game from The New York Times. The May 2025 guide described the puzzle as playable free through NYT Games on desktop or mobile and said new puzzles appear at midnight in each player’s time zone. Those are source-era details; current access and archive policies may differ.
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