Today’s connections and answers for May 1, 2025 (Puzzle #690)

Today Connections The puzzle marks the first for May 2025, which begins with a challenging words that apparently have no clear pattern. I found that the puzzle uses many different verbs today to inform other topics informally and create a vague series of word pairings instead of something uncomplicated. Without the right notes, you may have problems finding out which sentences make sense together.

Visualize a word you see during one Connections Puzzle is a good strategy to find groups of words that all fit into one category. Remember you I only have four chances of making a mistakeSo don’t rely on your first instinct. Similar to the NYT Crown Puzzles game, first visualize concepts and take a look at every possible definition, even if you think you already know what a word means.

The category of today’s connections

May 1st #690

I managed to solve today’s puzzle through a bit of luck and recognition of a small topic in all four categories. Today’s topic is Alternative terms for different verbs or nounsOr informal definitions of certain phrases. For example, the word drop actually refers to a bad habit instead of leaving something out of your hand.

If you have difficulty combining the different terms used in today’s puzzles, follow them to find out which categories phrases belong:

• A category deals with things with alternative terms for articles that you gain in a competition.
• A category deals with things with alternative terms to stop a bad habit.
• A category deals with things in relation to terms that are used to describe actions in creating a film.
• A category deals with things related to terms that are used to describe smaller foods.

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If you want to search with some of your idea, go out everything to search, You should watch the category names to get additional help. There are also spoilers for each category if you have to solve a single category to finish.

	PROFIT
	Stop as a habit
	Film camera verbs
	Words that precede “-SIZE” Small means

Answer today’s connections

May 1st #690

Yellow answers: revealed and explained

This part of the puzzle was initially difficult for me, although I was able to give the reward and the price together from the start. After I had looked at the puzzle a little more, I was reminded of how games like poker or even monopoly have a Pot for the central price pool to win for the players sometimes. Since the income can be saved in a wallet, this category was easier to group as soon as you recognized your topic.

Green answers: revealed and explained

Some of the terms in today’s puzzle made this category difficult to find, as I originally believed that break, drop and kick were associated with bite as different actions. In some considerations, however, I realized that these sentences were determined to fall, fall, break, or to step a bad habit instead. This helped me add Shake because it is easy to shake a bad habit along with the other words.

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Blue answers: revealed and explained

This was the most difficult part of the puzzle for me because I had to think about the words the most similar alternative meanings. At first zoom and tilt felt like completely separate verbs until I realized how Both words are used to describe camera techniques that are used when creating a film. This helped me to recognize that Dolly was a dolly of a camera and pan was another term associated with the use of cameras for film.

Lila answers: revealed and explained

When you travel, you sometimes need snacks to maintain themEspecially during a long flight. This was the idea that read me in this part of the puzzle and made me bite and fun, as terms that are used to describe smaller sizes for foods that they would normally eat on the go. Pocket size meals can also help you on a long road trip and give you the last word that is required for this category.

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Connections

Released

June 12, 2023

ESRB

E

Developer (s)

The New York Times Company

Publisher)

The New York Times Company