Curious about the NYT’s Connections hint and answer for May 6? Find out everything you need to know from this guide. The categories for today’s edition of the word game include words related to silence, units or numbers about a popular sport, things that are relatively small in size, and words that are synonyms of another word. In Connections, players divide a grid of sixteen words into four groups of four. Additionally, these four groups represent specific categories, which are color-coded based on difficulty — yellow being easiest and purple being hardest, for instance.
The Connections hint and answer for May 6 can be found below.
Connections hint for May 6
The NYT Connections hint for May 6 includes the following categorical descriptions:
- Yellow – References a quiet state or action where no one speaks or makes a sound.
- Green – The words here mean units or divisions of a competition related to a prominent sport. This sport involves bats and a ball.
- Blue – Words here mean things that are small.
- Purple – The initial parts of these words are synonyms for a word that means making fun of someone or something.
What are the Connections answers for today, May 6?
The answers for May 6’s edition of Connections are:
- Yellow (Silence) – Calm, Hush, Peace, Still
- Green (Tennis Competition Units) – Game, Match, Set, Tournament
- Blue (Comparatively Small) – Baby, Compact, Minute, Toy
- Purple (Starting With Synonyms For “Tease”) – Kidney, Mockingbird, Razzmatazz, Ribbon
In the yellow category, careful thinking and visualization of the four words should be enough to help you figure out the answers.
As for the green category, you can easily obtain all the words by looking at them carefully and piecing together their relation.
Meanwhile, the blue category also only requires close inspection of the words to figure out the answer.
As for the purple category, take the first three letters of each of the words — “Kid,” “Mock,” “Razz,” and “Rib” — and split them from the rest. This alone should help you answer the purple category. Moreover, if “Razz” is giving you trouble, just think of the Razzie Awards — a ceremony mockingly awarding the worst projects fans have seen.
