CNET published hints and answers for NYT Connections puzzle No. 1,065 on Monday, May 11, giving players a full look at the day’s four-answer groupings before and after they played. The coverage broke down the puzzle’s categories, including a purple set that asked solvers to hunt inside other words for hidden body parts.
The blue group hint was “Elementary, my dear Watson,” while the yellow group centered on move stealthily, with “in.” The purple clue was “Hidden anatomy words,” and the site said the purple category required players to look inside other words for four words with a connection. The answers for move stealthily, with “in.” were creep, slip, sneak and steal.
For the categories built around themes, the site identified kinds of schemes with color, Ponzi, pyramid and rhyme. It also listed detective movies as Chinatown, Knives Out, Seven and Vertigo. The body-parts category, described as body parts surrounded by two letters, was solved by elegy, karma, keyed and shandy. The puzzle number was No. 1,065, and the date attached to it was May 11.
This kind of puzzle write-up is part of a recurring daily format that readers return to for a quick check of what they missed or to confirm a clean solve. The Times also offers a Connections Bot that gives players a numeric score and analyzes answers after play, while registered players can track their progress, including puzzles completed, win rate, perfect scores and win streak.
For players who opened Monday’s board and wondered whether the hidden-word category was fair, the answer is yes: the purple set was designed to make them read more closely than they would on a normal four-by-four grid. That is what made the day’s challenge distinct, and it is why the clue list mattered after the game as much as before it.
