Looking for a hint for today’s Connections puzzle? Below, we have clues to help you unlock whichever category has you stumped for the puzzle on April 7, 2025.

Connections first launched on the New York Times in June 2023. The premise is deceptively simple: Players have to find the thematic connection of four groups of four words … without making more than four mistakes.

Today’s Connections has categories about matters of the heart, natural beauty and more.

Below are the hints, categories and answers for today’s Connections game, puzzle #666, on April 7.

A hint for each Connections category today, April 7

Yellow group hint: Things the heart does

Green group hint: Also, range or valley

Blue group hint: “Does that look even?”

Purple group hint: Compound nouns beginning with the same four letters

A word in each Connections category today, April 7

Yellow group word: Pulse

Green group word: Crater

Blue group word: Level

Purple group word: Hills

Connections categories today, April 7

Yellow group category: Throb

Green group category: Landforms

Blue group category: Picture hanging needs

Purple group category: Foot____

Here are the answers to Connections today, April 7

What are the yellow words in today’s Connections? 

Throb: Beat, pound, pulse, thump

What are the green words in today’s Connections? 

Landforms: Cape, crater, gorge, ridge

What are the blue words in today’s Connections? 

Picture hanging needs: Hammer, hanger, level, nail

What are the purple words in today’s Connections? 

Foot____: Ball, hills, locker, print

Deanna Janes