Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for May 11, #1065

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for May 11, #1065

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Here are some hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle No. 1,065 for Monday, May 11.

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Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a real challenge. The purple category is another one where you have to hunt inside other words for four words that have some kind of connection. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers.

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Read more: Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time

Hints for today's Connections groups

Here are four hints for the groupings in today's Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group hint: Pretty sly.

Green group hint: Different plans.

Blue group hint: Elementary, my dear Watson.

Purple group hint: Hidden anatomy words.

Answers for today's Connections groups

Yellow group: Move stealthily, with "in." 

Green group: Kinds of schemes.

Blue group: Detective movies.

Purple group: Body parts surrounded by two letters.

Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words

What are today's Connections answers?

completed NYT Connections puzzle for May 11, 2026, #1065

The completed NYT Connections puzzle for May 11, 2026.

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The yellow words in today's Connections

The theme is move stealthily, with "in." The four answers are creep, slip, sneak and steal.

The green words in today's Connections

The theme is kinds of schemes. The four answers are color, Ponzi, pyramid and rhyme.

The blue words in today's Connections

The theme is detective movies. The four answers are Chinatown, Knives Out, Seven and Vertigo.

The purple words in today's Connections

The theme is body parts surrounded by two letters. The four answers are elegy (leg), karma (arm), keyed (eye) and shandy (hand).

Headshot of Gael Cooper

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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