Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers, Friday May 30
Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #718.
Need a hint for today’s Connections on Friday, 30th May? Finding the Connections answers is such a fun but daunting task… If you’re looking for a stress-free Connections challenge today, perhaps we can arrange that.
Instead of endlessly staring at the 16 words, try glancing over our hints. The answers may just pop up in your head before you know it.
In this guide:
- How to play Connections
- Connections hint for Friday 30th May
- What are today’s Connections groups?
- What are today’s Connections answers?
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Tape | Radio | Water Bottle | Club |
| Stick | Caddy | Shake | Hat |
| Tee | Staff | Toilet Paper | Bat |
| Ribbon | Tote | Love | Foil |
How to play Connections
Connections is one of the most popular (and challenging) daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). The aim of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, where each group of four words has a common theme.
For instance, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter”, and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or to take another example, “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go”, and “Stick” are all words which commonly come just before the word “Figure”.
Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the various words together – but be wary, because a lot of the time there are deceptive red herring connections placed purely to throw you off! To win the game, you have to find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is revealed automatically.
Each of the four groups in each day’s Connections puzzle is also assigned a different colour, which represents how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colours are: Yellow (Easiest), Green (Easy), Blue (Medium), and Purple (Hardest).
Click here to play today’s Connections puzzle!
Connections hint for Friday 30th May
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: Look for tall tools.
- Green: Companies tend to hand these out.
- Blue: Think of the way in which these items are stored.
- Purple: Find the one word to place behind all group members.
- Extra hint 1: The word that forms the key to solving the purple theme starts with an ‘S’ and ends with a ‘K’.
- Extra hint 2: The word ‘bat’ is not about the animal.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Bat
- Green: Tote
- Blue: Ribbon
- Purple: Caddy
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!
What are today’s Connections groups?
If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four correct Connections groups – the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.
Here are the Connections groups for today:
- Yellow: Rods
- Green: Common Swag Items
- Blue: They’Re On A Roll!
- Purple: Words Before “Shack”
Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections answer lies ahead!
What is today’s Connections answer?
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Friday, 30th May:
- Yellow: Rods (Bat, Club, Staff, Stick)
- Green: Common Swag Items (Hat, Tee, Tote, Water Bottle)
- Blue: They’Re On A Roll! (Foil, Tape, Ribbon, Toilet Paper)
- Purple: Words Before “Shack” (Caddy, Love, Radio, Shake)
The purple group is a tough one today. I didn’t manage to complete it, but I applaud you if you did. Luckily, the yellow theme was far easier once I started looking for items of a similar shape – I just needed a minute to interpret the words correctly (including every yellow word except ‘stick’).
Next, I started looking for clothes (thanks to ‘hat’ and ‘tee’), then basic necessity items (mostly because of ‘toilet paper’, but also ‘water bottle’), and finally ‘rolls’. Although I didn’t quite feel like I was on a roll, I finally got the blue group.
I’m not sure if I would’ve found the swag items had I not been down to eight words. I definitely felt like there was a ‘common items people carry with them’ value to them, but this connection didn’t seem particularly strong to me. Still, it was the only one I found, so I went ahead and matched the green theme.
