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Today’s NYTConnections puzzleis a real challenge. The purple category is another one where you have to hunt inside other words for four words that have some kind of connection. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.
The Times has a Connections Botlike the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progressincluding the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.
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Hints for today’s Connections groups
Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.
Yellow group hint: Pretty sly.
Green group hint: Different plans.
Blue group hint: Elementary, my dear Watson.
Purple group hint: Hidden anatomy words.
Answers for today’s Connections groups
Yellow group: Move stealthily, with “in.”
Green group: Kinds of schemes.
Blue group: Detective movies.
Purple group: Body parts surrounded by two letters.
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What are today’s Connections answers?
The completed NYT Connections puzzle for May 11, 2026.
The yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is move stealthily, with “in.” The four answers are creep, slip, sneak and steal.
The green words in today’s Connections
The theme is kinds of schemes. The four answers are color, Ponzi, pyramid and rhyme.
The blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is detective movies. The four answers are Chinatown, Knives Out, Seven and Vertigo.
The purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is body parts surrounded by two letters. The four answers are elegy (leg), karma (arm), keyed (eye) and shandy (hand).
Toughest Connections puzzles
We’ve made a note of some of the toughest Connections puzzles so far. Maybe they’ll help you see patterns in future puzzles.
#5: Included “things you can set,” such as mood, record, table and volleyball.
#4: Included “one in a dozen,” such as egg, juror, month and rose.
#3: Included “streets on screen,” such as Elm, Fear, Jump and Sesame.
#2: Included “power ___” such as nap, plant, Ranger and trip.
#1: Included “things that can run,” such as candidate, faucet, mascara and nose.