Today's NYT Connections hides filmmaking jargon in plain sight. The camera movements category stumps more players than any other group.
NYT Connections challenges players to identify four hidden categories among sixteen jumbled words, using pattern recognition and vocabulary knowledge to uncover the secret links. Consider grouping the relatively straightforward yellow one at first, but beware: purple can be hard!
Let’s understand the hints to solve the equation today.
Today's Theme: "WINNINGS": These words represent different forms of prizes or rewards. They describe what victors receive after competitions or contests.
Today's Theme: "STOP, AS A HABIT": These are verbs that describe ending of addictive or repetitive behaviors. Each term suggests ceasing of a routine activity or a dependency.
Today's Theme: "MOVIE CAMERA VERBS": These terms describe movements in cinematography techniques. They represent different ways of cameras shift during filming.
Today's Theme: "WORDS THAT PRECEDE '-SIZE' TO MEAN SMALL": These words, when combined with the size word, create familiar phrases. Each combination describes something which could be small or miniature in scale.
Practice with hints from previous game puzzles. This will sharpen skills for the coming games.
Yellow hints are direct connection hints. They usually are centered around a physical component. Consider an approach from the 30 April 2025 game themed parts of shoe.
The green category hints at a focus on physical activity. Today’s hints are similar to 29 April 2025 hints of dinner party activities..
Today’s approach contrasts with the 28 April 2025 crime scene forensics. Apply specialized knowledge to solve the game's hints on camera movements.
For those who want the complete solutions to today's puzzle:
Yellow (Easiest): POT, PRIZE, PURSE, REWARD
Blue (Medium-Challenging): BREAK, DROP, KICK, SHAKE
Purple (Hardest): DOLLY, PAN, TILT, ZOOM
Green (Medium): BITE, FUN, POCKET, TRAVEL
Puzzle designer Wyna Liu developed Connections for the NY Times, part of the NYT Games family, in 2023. Today's Connections puzzle offers an engaging mix of common knowledge (winnings), behavioral terminology (habit-breaking), specialized vocabulary (camera movements), and linguistic patterns (size-related terms).