NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, May 14 (game #1068)

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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Wednesday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, May 13 (game #1067).

Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.

NYT Connections today (game #1068) – hint #1 – group hints

What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?

YELLOW: Skills for looking ahead
GREEN: Phone settings
BLUE: Bad romance
PURPLE: Inside repeats

Need more clues?

We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections today (game #1068) – the answers

NYT Connections answers for game 1068 on a purple background — (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today’s Connections, game #1068, are…

YELLOW: PREMONITION GUT FEELING, HUNCH, INTUITION, SIXTH SENSE
GREEN: CELLPHONE MODES DO NOT DISTURB, RING, SILENT, VIBRATE
BLUE: BAD THINGS TO DO IN MODERN DATING BREADCRUMB, CATFISH, GHOST, LOVE BOMB
PURPLE: PHRASES WHOSE SECOND WORDS INCLUDE THEIR FIRST WORD
AIR CAIRO, ALL HALLOWS, ARM WARMER, THE OTHERS

My rating: Hard
My score: 1 mistake

Kudos if you managed to spot the purple group. It looks simple once you know the thread, but I was blind to it.

A few days ago we had a group containing detective movies from a variety of eras and I thought that we had a repeat of that today with the supernatural movies THE OTHERS, RING, SIXTH SENSE and GHOST.

Annoying, but it helped me complete the game from here as I realized they were the clue to all four group — RING for CELLPHONE MODES, SIXTH SENSE for PREMONITION and GHOST for BAD THINGS TO DO IN MODERN DATING.

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final one, as you’ll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It’s a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.