Issue #1068 Thu 14 May
NYT Connections Hints & Answer — May 14, 2026
A mid-week grid that rewards a second read. Three groups lean on association and one asks you to look at the letters themselves before you trust the meanings.
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.
GUT FEELING
- n. an instinctive reaction not based on reasoning
- n. a strong visceral conviction about something
HUNCH
- n. a feeling or guess based on intuition
- v. to bend or arch the back forward
- n. a rounded lump or hump
INTUITION
- n. immediate understanding without conscious reasoning
- n. a thing known or felt instinctively
SIXTH SENSE
- n. a supposed power of perception beyond the five senses
- n. an unusually keen instinct for something
DO NOT DISTURB
- phrase. a request not to be interrupted
- n. a sign hung on a door to ensure privacy
RING
- n. a circular band worn on a finger
- v. to make a clear resonant sound
- n. an enclosed area for a sport or show
- v. to encircle or surround
SILENT
- adj. making or having no sound
- adj. not expressed or spoken aloud
- adj. (of a letter) not pronounced
VIBRATE
- v. to move rapidly back and forth
- v. to quiver or resonate with feeling
BREADCRUMB
- n. a small fragment of bread
- n. a navigational trail showing one's path
CATFISH
- n. a whiskered freshwater fish
- v. to deceive someone with a fake online persona
GHOST
- n. an apparition of a dead person
- v. to suddenly cut off all contact with someone
- n. a faint trace or secondary image
LOVE BOMB
- v. to overwhelm someone with affection to manipulate them
- n. a barrage of excessive flattery and attention
AIR CAIRO
- n. an Egyptian airline
ALL HALLOWS
- n. the feast of All Saints, November 1
- n. (in 'All Hallows' Eve') the night of October 31
ARM WARMER
- n. a tubular garment worn over the forearm for warmth
THE OTHERS
- phrase. the remaining people or things in a group
- n. those regarded as different or outside one's own group
yellow group 7 hints
Yellow group hints
There's no reason in particular to check your phone right now, but you keep doing it anyway.
Psychology and everyday vocabulary — words people use about themselves.
Synonyms — the four point at roughly the same idea.
Each answer is a singular count noun; two are written as one word, two as a two-word phrase.
PREMONITION
One is HUNCH.
GUT FEELING · HUNCH · INTUITION · SIXTH SENSE
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Green group hints
Walking into a wedding ceremony, you instinctively reach into your pocket and thumb a little switch before sitting down.
Options or settings menus on a small piece of consumer technology you carry around with you.
Category-membership — all four are co-members of a single named set, like how 'Mars' and 'Venus' both sit under 'planets'.
Not a real-world grouping like fruits or capitals — instead, four options curated for a user-facing selection screen.
CELLPHONE MODES
One is VIBRATE.
DO NOT DISTURB · RING · SILENT · VIBRATE
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Blue group hints
You haven't heard back in four days. The last message just sits there, gray and unread, and you keep refreshing anyway.
Social behavior — specifically the slang that's grown up around how people treat each other.
Category-membership — the four words all belong to the same named class of behavior.
Each entry is a concrete everyday noun that's been verbed into slang. All four name something one person does to another person.
BAD THINGS TO DO IN MODERN DATING
One is GHOST — vanishing on someone without a word.
BREADCRUMB · CATFISH · GHOST · LOVE BOMB
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Violet group hints
A magician's whisper: 'It was right under your nose the whole time.' Stare a beat longer at each phrase.
Pure wordplay — meaning is irrelevant here; only the letters matter.
Hidden words — one of the pieces is tucked inside the other.
Each entry is a two-word phrase, and the containment relationship always runs in the same fixed direction.
PHRASES WHOSE SECOND WORDS INCLUDE THEIR FIRST WORD
One is AIR CAIRO — the letters A-I-R sit inside CAIRO.
AIR CAIRO · ALL HALLOWS · ARM WARMER · THE OTHERS
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Complete Connections answer
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PREMONITIONGUT FEELING · HUNCH · INTUITION · SIXTH SENSE
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CELLPHONE MODESDO NOT DISTURB · RING · SILENT · VIBRATE
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BAD THINGS TO DO IN MODERN DATINGBREADCRUMB · CATFISH · GHOST · LOVE BOMB
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PHRASES WHOSE SECOND WORDS INCLUDE THEIR FIRST WORDAIR CAIRO · ALL HALLOWS · ARM WARMER · THE OTHERS
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Frequently asked questions
Spoiler-free help for Connections on May 14, 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 14, 2026, or browse every Connections puzzle in the archive.
How hard is NYT Connections on May 14, 2026?
NYT Connections on May 14, 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 14, 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 #1068?
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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