Today’s tips and NYT answers, Monday, May 19

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Do you need tips on today’s connections on Monday, May 19? Just because you haven’t found a response to calls does not mean that you are not close. Perhaps the solution is just below your nose, and everything you need is a bit of poke.

In this case, this guide will undoubtedly be your key to victory. Just look at a few tips and try.

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In this guide:

Here are 16 words of connections:

Melon Ball Chance Bawl
Soul Bleat Function Fluke
Utility Towing Avenue Advantage
Fin Railroad Gala To treat

How to play

Connections is one of the most popular (and demanding) daily puzzle games published by The New York Times. The purpose of the connections is to group 16 words of the day for four groups, in which each group of four words has a common topic.

For example, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter” and “Wendy” are the characters of Peter Pan. Or to take another example, “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go” and “Stick” are all words that often appear just before the word “drawing”.

Your task is to find out what these topics combine different words together – but be careful, because for a lot of time there are deceitful combinations with red herring placed only to lose you! To win the game, you need to find all four connections without making 4 mistakes. During the fourth error, the game ended and the answer is revealed automatically.

Each of the four groups in the puzzle every day is also attributed to a different color, which represents how simple or tough to find a connection. These colors are: yellow (easiest), green (simple), blue (medium) and purple (the most tough).

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The connections indicate on Monday, May 19

Here are your tips for today:

  • Yellow: This topic is related to charity.
  • Green: These words are part of a classic board game.
  • Blue: Think of a vast ocean mammal.
  • Purple: Focus on pronunciation.
  • Additional tip 1: Each group except greenery contains a word starting to “B”.
  • Additional tip 2: “Ball” and “Melon” are in different groups.

If you need a little more facilitate, touch the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:

  • Yellow: Gala
  • Green: Chance
  • Blue: Melon
  • Purple: Bawl

A warning about the spoiler! Today’s connection groups are revealed below!


What are today’s connection groups?

If you need an even bigger tip to determine today’s puzzle, below we will reveal four correct connection groups – topics that combine each set of four words in the connection grid.

Here are connections groups for today:

  • Yellow: Event of obtaining funds
  • Green: Spaces on the monopolistic board
  • Blue: Features of a gear whale
  • Purple: Homophones of the part of the foot

Now that you know the motives of various connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve them! If not, check the full answer below.


A warning about the spoiler! Today’s connections the answer is ahead of us!


What is today’s response to calls?

Here is the answer to today’s connection puzzle on Monday, May 19:

  • Yellow: Funds obtaining funds (Ball, Benefit, Gala, Function)
  • Green: Spaces on the monopolistic board (Avenue, Chance, Railroad, Utility)
  • Blue: Features of the gear whale (Blubber, Flipper, Fluke, Melon)
  • Purple: Homophone part of the foot (Bawl, Heal, Soul, TOW)
The connections correspond to May 19, 2025.
Here are the answers of Connections 19 May. |. Image loan: Rock Paper Strzelba/NYT

Today’s connection puzzle was very tough for me. I adapted the “gala” and “ball” quickly enough, but I needed a minute to discover the component of “raising funds”. I also added “Railway” with “Avenue” as “Types of a road match” quite early, but because I don’t know much about the monopoly, I couldn’t find other members of the group.

It would not be a problem if blue and purple were simple, but I fought them – especially blue, which also requires specific knowledge. In the end I found purple, because checking homophones is part of my standard connections, but if you do not know what a whaler’s “melon” is, you can do not do much.

So I finished with two uncertain groups: “Flipper, Blubber and Fluke” and “Railroad and Avenue”. The rest was a matter of guessing and hope for give me – fortunately not many words left!

Congratulations, if you have today’s connections, answer well, with or without the facilitate of our handy tips above! And if you are not successful today, don’t worry – the fresh puzzle is published every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like Wordle!

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