Josh Wardle Guides Connections No. 1067 to Four Clean Groups Connections 15 May 2026

Connections 15 may 2026 put Josh Wardle’s No. 1067 puzzle in front of solvers on May 13, 2026, and the 16-word grid broke cleanly into four themed groups. The game’s structure did the work: one mistake costs a life, and four mistakes end the game.

The yellow set was long sandwiches, with GRINDER, HERO, HOAGIE, and SUB. That was the easiest lane, and it gave players an early foothold before the grid turned meaner.

Wardle's four-group structure

The green group turned on pretext and used ARGUMENT, BASIS, CAUSE, and GROUNDS. Blue shifted to smartphone photo editing options with ADJUST, CROP, FILTERS, and MARKUP. Purple stayed closest to the game’s harder end with Jelly _____, a setup that pulled BEAN, BELLY, DONUT, and ROLL into the same final bucket.

Yellow groups are the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple as the most challenging, and this board followed that ladder closely. The puzzle earned mixed difficulty ratings, which fits a grid that handed out an obvious sandwich category before asking players to connect words through a blank-space pattern.

Reddit and X reactions

Reddit’s r/NYTConnections and X threads filled with emoji grids and score reports after the May 13 solve. One solver posted, “Nailed the sandwiches first then struggled with jelly — classic purple trap,” and that reaction matched the board’s late-game snag.

Connections has grown since launching in 2023, and the appeal is still the same: 16 words, four groupings, and enough room for one bad guess to change the run. For regular players, No. 1067 was the kind of board worth comparing against other solvers, because the categories were readable but the purple set still punished anyone who moved too fast.