NYT Connections hint (Wed, 27 May)

Looking for some Connections hints to help with today's puzzle on Wednesday, 27th May? It's hump day, one of the hardest days of the week after Monday. We get it if you're not feeling up to the mental gymnastics that is Connections!

You can rely on us for handy hints any time you're a little lost in the puzzle or just don't have the time to nut it out. Whatever the cause, we've got your back.

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". These are the kinds of Connections you'll need to make to solve the puzzle.

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: Today's Connections words

Below you'll find various hints for today's Connections. Each of the below hints will make it progressively easier for you to solve today's puzzle. First we'll reveal the words in today's Connections, followed by our Connections hint for each group. Then we'll reveal one word inside each group, followed by the groups themselves; and finally, at the bottom of this page, we'll reveal the answers to today's Connections puzzle. Here are the 16 Connections words for today:

• MONOGAMY
• TOWNSHIP
• BATTLESHIP
• OPERATION
• AYE
• BANJO
• COMMUNE
• HAMLET
• LEAR
• MACBETH
• NUTMEG
• OTHELLO
• PIER
• STAIR
• TROUBLE
• VILLAGE

Connections hint for Wednesday 27th May

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow hint: A tight knit group.
• Green hint: Game night staples.
• Blue hint: Sounds like a sight...
• Purple hint: Sisterly endings.
• Extra hint 1: One set hides the real clue in the ending.
• Extra hint 2: Every group has at least one word containing the letter 'T'

If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:

• Yellow: Commune
• Green: Operation
• Blue: Lear
• Purple: Nutmeg

Spoiler warning! Today's Connections groups are revealed just below!

Connections hints: All of 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: Small Community
• Green: Classic Board Games
• Blue: Homophones of Ways of Looking
• Purple: Ending in the 'Little Women' March Sisters

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!

Connections answer today

Here is the answer to today's Connections puzzle on Wednesday, 27th May:

• Yellow: Small Community (Commune, Hamlet, Township, Village)
• Green: Classic Board Games (Battleship, Operation, Othello, Trouble)
• Blue: Homophones of Ways of Looking (Aye, Lear, Pier, Stair)
• Purple: Ending in the 'Little Women' March Sisters (Banjo, Macbeth, Monogamy, Nutmeg)

Well, if you've never read Little Women, this would have been a very tricky puzzle! Not only did the purple group rely on your knowledge of a certain set of sisters, but their names were also buried at the tail end of their associated words. If you don't know the sisters, you can kiss your streak goodbye!

Or that would be the case, at least, if we didn't make our handy Connections guides each and every day. Luckily we do, and your streak is safe with us.

Congratulations if you got today's Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you didn't succeed today, don't worry - a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!