Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for May 25, #714

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Today's Connections puzzle has a fun mix of categories. If you're a fan of games played with decks of cards, you're already ahead of the curve. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers.

The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.

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: Deal me in.

Green group hint: Lookalike.

Blue group hint: Go to Claire's for this.

Purple group hint: Letters and packages.