Issue #1064 Sun 10 May
NYT Connections Hints & Answer — May 10, 2026
A patient Sunday grid. Four groups, sixteen tiles, and a couple of pulls that ask you to slow down before you tap.
Word meanings & definitions
Stuck on a tricky Connections word? Click any tile below to see its dictionary entry — handy when a familiar word might be hiding a less-obvious meaning.
PLAY
- v. to engage in recreation or a game
- v. to perform music on an instrument
- n. a dramatic work staged for an audience
- v. to start media output on a device
REPEAT
- v. to say or do something again
- n. a broadcast aired a second time
- v. to set audio to loop continuously
SHUFFLE
- v. to rearrange a deck of cards
- v. to walk dragging the feet
- v. to randomise the order of a queue
SKIP
- v. to move with light hopping steps
- v. to omit or pass over
- v. to jump to the next item in a list
- n. (British) a large open waste container
BOUND
- adj. tied up or restrained
- adj. heading somewhere with intent
- v. to move forward in long strides
- adj. certain to do or be something
CERTAIN
- adj. confidently sure of a fact
- adj. unavoidably going to happen
- adj. particular but unspecified
FATED
- adj. predetermined by destiny
- adj. doomed to a particular end
SURE
- adj. confident in a belief
- adj. guaranteed to occur
- interj. a casual yes
- adv. (informal) certainly
GARNISH
- v. to decorate a dish with a small flourish
- n. an edible decoration on food or drink
- v. (law) to withhold wages by court order
MUDDLE
- v. to confuse or mix up
- n. a disordered state
- v. to crush ingredients in the bottom of a glass
POUR
- v. to make liquid flow from a vessel
- v. to rain heavily
- v. to arrive or flow in great numbers
STIR
- v. to move a spoon through a liquid
- v. to rouse strong feeling
- n. a commotion or sensation
COIL
- n. a length of rope or wire wound into rings
- v. to wind something into loops
- n. a contraceptive device fitted in the uterus
FOUNTAIN
- n. an ornamental jet of water
- n. a natural source where water rises from the ground
- n. a rich source of something
LEAP
- v. to jump high or far
- n. a sudden large change
- n. an act of jumping
SEASON
- n. one of the four divisions of the year
- n. a period of activity for a sport or show
- v. to add salt and spices to food
- v. to age timber before use
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Yellow group hints
A row of small icons across the bottom of the screen, thumb hovering, waiting to pick the next track.
Technology — controls on a piece of audio software.
Category-membership: every entry names one tappable control inside the same app.
Specifically, the cluster of icons sitting along the transport bar of a streaming-audio interface.
MUSIC PLAYER BUTTONS
One is SHUFFLE — the icon that randomises the queue.
PLAY · REPEAT · SHUFFLE · SKIP
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Green group hints
The feeling that the outcome is already settled and is just waiting for everyone else to catch up.
Vocabulary — adjectives describing certainty about an outcome.
Synonyms — the four words all mean roughly the same thing.
Specifically, each can slot into the frame "___ to happen" with no change of meaning.
DESTINED
One is FATED.
BOUND · CERTAIN · FATED · SURE
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Blue group hints
Crushed mint, a wooden pestle, the smell of lime rising off a chilled glass on a bar mat.
Food and drink — specifically what happens behind a bar.
Category-membership: every entry is one step inside the same recipe.
Specifically, the action words a bartender walks through when assembling one named cocktail from scratch.
VERBS IN MAKING A MOJITO
One is MUDDLE — what you do to the mint and lime at the bottom of the glass.
GARNISH · MUDDLE · POUR · STIR
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Violet group hints
One short English noun, asked to do too much — picture how many unrelated things it can stand in for before the sentence around it tells you which.
Vocabulary — a single English noun and the various things it can name.
Category-membership: each tile names one distinct dictionary sense of one shared headword.
Specifically, the four tiles cover the full polysemy fan-out of one short headword, with no thematic unity beyond the headword itself.
WHAT "SPRING" MIGHT REFER TO
One is FOUNTAIN — the natural-water-source sense of the headword.
COIL · FOUNTAIN · LEAP · SEASON
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Complete Connections answer
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MUSIC PLAYER BUTTONSPLAY · REPEAT · SHUFFLE · SKIP
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DESTINEDBOUND · CERTAIN · FATED · SURE
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VERBS IN MAKING A MOJITOGARNISH · MUDDLE · POUR · STIR
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WHAT "SPRING" MIGHT REFER TOCOIL · FOUNTAIN · LEAP · SEASON
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Frequently asked questions
Spoiler-free help for Connections on May 10, 2026. Every answer below helps you along without giving the game away — ready to see the full solution? See the complete Connections answer for May 10, 2026, or browse every Connections puzzle in the archive.
How hard is NYT Connections on May 10, 2026?
NYT Connections on May 10, 2026 rates 3 out of 4 on our difficulty scale — a tougher-than-average puzzle. As always you sort sixteen words into four colour-coded groups, and our hints tease what links each group without ever naming the words.
What's a spoiler-free hint for NYT Connections on May 10, 2026?
The hint ladder above starts with a one-line vibe for each of the four groups, then adds the connecting idea, then the wording of each category. You climb only as far as you need, and no grouped words are shown until the final reveal.
How many groups are in NYT Connections #1064?
Four groups of four, ordered from the gentlest to the trickiest. For the categories and the sixteen words themselves, open the answer section on this page — the hints here keep them hidden.
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