HIGHLIGHTS
- A word, Kubrick does not have a specific meaning, but in today’s NYT Connections, it is a word that ends with building materials: “Brick.”
- Michael Jordan in today’s game represents his team, the Chicago Bulls, where he played for 13 seasons.
- Kinds Of Plants, Discontinue, Associated With Bulls, and Ending With Building Materials are the NYT Connections Categories for May 16, 2025.
Starting your day with NYT Connections might make your morning refreshing and creative.
Today’s NYT Connections is back with 16 fresh words, each four of which align with one another in a unique way.
Like always, today’s NYT Connections also features a few unheard and difficult words, i.e., Kubrick, and they are pretty hard to group out.
Answers For Today’s NYT Connections (May 16, 2025)
After closely analyzing today’s NYT Connections, the first four words that I picked were Dissolve, End, Scrap, and Sunset.
Each of these words seems to be related to the others in the sense of endings or disappearing things.
So, grouping out these words, I got the green group “Discontinue“.

Moving ahead with the remaining word, I got the yellow group “Kinds Of Plants” that includes words like Tree, Shrub, Vine, and Herb.
Kubrick Meaning In NYT Connections #705
As I progressed further with the remaining words, I was pretty stuck in the game for a minute, which led me to lose one life and get the purple group “Ending With Building Materials”.
The purple group in today’s game featured words like Hourglass (Glass), Hollywood (Wood), Neuroplastic (Plastic), and Kubrick (Brick).

In today’s NYT Connections, the word “Kubrick” does not have a specific meaning (except for the surname of American filmmaker and photographer Stanley Kubrick), but it is a word that ends with building materials: “Brick.”
Michael Jordan Meaning In NYT Connections #705
With only four words remaining at the end, I quickly grouped them out, which led me to the blue group “Associated With Bulls.”
After getting the title, it was not difficult to analyze how the words Michael Jordan, Wall Street, Rodeo, and Taurus were combined.
In today’s NYT game, Michael Jordan represented his team, the Chicago Bulls, where he played for 13 seasons.

On the other hand, “Charging Bull”, also known as the “Bull of Wall Street“, is a bronze sculpture in New York City that symbolizes financial optimism and resilience.
Rodeo is an exhibition or contest in which cowboys show their skill at riding broncos (bulls, horses), roping calves, and wrestling steers.
Finally, after getting all the groups and coloring up the grid, I was able to complete today’s NYT Connections with the following answers;
- Discontinue (Green): Dissolve, Scrap, End, Sunset
- Kinds Of Plants (Yellow): Herb, Shrub, Tree, Vine
- Ending With Building Materials (Purple): Hollywood, Hourglass, Kubrick, Neuroplastic
- Associated With Bulls (Blue): Michael Jordan, Wall Street, Rodeo, Taurus

