If you are looking for Connections Friday May 17, 2024 answers, keep reading - I will share some clues, tips, strategies and finally solutions for all four categories. Along the way I'll explain the meanings of the trickier words and we'll see how everything fits together. Please note, there are spoilers below for the May 17 issue of NYT Wired #341! If you want some tips (and answers) for today's game of Wired, keep reading.
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Below, I'll give you some indirect hints on today's connection answers. Further down the page I will reveal the topics and answers. Scroll slowly and get the tips you need!
Topic prompt for today’s connect puzzle
Here are some grouping tips from today’s Wired (no spoilers):
Yellow Category - Lack of integrity or ethics.
Green Category - Get in touch with someone via text message or email.
Blue category - for example, objects painted by Paul Cézanne.
Purple Category - Fill in the blanks, use regular alcoholic beverages.
PLEASE NOTE: Today's Connect Puzzle contains spoilers!
We're about to give you some answers. If you don't want to spoil the whole thing, scroll slowly. (Full solution a little below.)
A note on the tricky bits
BASE, BATTER, and PITCHER are all baseball-related words, but today they all fall into different categories.
BASE actually means lowest and is a synonym for something like "selfish."
If the allusion to Cézanne leaves you scratching your head, you may want to refer to this image in particular .
What are the categories of connectivity today?
Yellow: corruption
Green: Lend a helping hand
Blue: classic still life composition
Purple: Beer___
Be extra careful: here’s the solution
Ready to get the answers to today’s connectivity dilemmas? I've given them all below.
What's the yellow word in today's connection?
The yellow grouping is considered the most straightforward. Today's theme for the yellow group is "corruption" and the words are: BASE, DIRTY, LOW, VILE.
What's the green word in Connections today?
The green grouping should be the second easiest. Today's theme in the green category is "Contact" and the words are: Contact, Message, PING, Text.
What's the blue word in today's Wired?
The blue group is the second hardest. Today’s theme in the blue category is classic still life components, with the words: fruit, jug, skull, tablecloth.
What is the purple word in today's connection?
The purple group is considered the hardest. Today’s theme for the purple category is beer___, and the words are: BATTER, CAN, GARDEN, and PONG.
How I solved my connection issues today
I think DIRTY goes with LOW, VILE and BASE to mean cheap or lacking in ethics. ?
PING may be used together with MESSAGE, CONTACT, and TEXT as a verb for digital communication. ?
It looks like there is a fill-in-the-blank question related to the word "beer": CAN, BATTER, PONG, and GARDEN. I could see a "pitcher" working too, but we already have CAN and this would be a better fit. ?
All that remains are tablecloths, fruit, skulls and pitchers, all common elements in still life paintings. ? (Haters will say my art history degree is useless.)
Connect Puzzle #341 ???? ???? ???? ????
How to play connect
I have a complete guide to playing Connections , but here's a recap of the rules:
First, find the Connections game on the New York Times website or their game app (formerly known as the Crossword Puzzle app). You will see a game board with 16 tiles, each with a word or phrase. Your task is to select a set of four tiles that have something in common. Usually they are the same type of thing (for example: RAIN, SLEET, HAIL, and SNOW are all types of wet weather), but sometimes a play on words is involved (for example, BUCKET, GUEST, TOP TEN, and WISH are all types) List : Last Wish lists, guest lists, etc.).
Select four projects and click the Submit button. If you guessed correctly, the category and color will be displayed. (Yellow is easiest, followed by green, then blue, then purple.) If your guess is incorrect, you'll be given a chance to try again.
You win when you correctly identify all four groups. But if you make four mistakes before finishing, the game will be over and the answer will be revealed.
How to win connections
The most important thing to know when it comes to winning connections is that grouping design is tricky. Expect to see overlapping groups. For example, one puzzle appeared to include six breakfast items: bacon, eggs, pancakes, omelets, waffles and cereal. But it turns out that BACON belongs to the same group of painters as CLOSE, MUNCH, and WHISTLER, while EGG belongs to a dozen groups of painters (along with JUROR, ROSE, and MONTH). So don’t hit “submit” until you’ve confirmed that your foursome only contains these four things.
If you're stuck, another strategy is to look at words that don't seem to be connected to other words. If when you see "Whistler" all that comes to mind is the painting nicknamed "Whistler's Mother," then you probably get the idea. When I was figuring this out, I ended up searching on Google to see if there was a painter named Close, since Close didn't fit any obvious themes either.
Obviously, another way to win when you're stuck is to read some helpful tips - which is why we share them every day. Check back tomorrow for the next puzzle!
