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ForbesNYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Tuesday, April 1By Kris HoltAnnnd breathe. I hope yesterday’s April Fool’s Day edition of Connections didn’t break too many of your streaks. It was a fun one! Back to normality today. Or… maybe not? We’ll see soon enough!
Oh yes, I have to do my thing.
It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: it’s time for another round of Connections!
Before we begin, I’ve set up a discussion group for NYT Connections and this column on Discord. We have a great little community over there and we chat about more than NYT games. Everyone who has joined has been lovely. It’s a fun hangout spot.
It’s also the best way to give me any feedback about the column, especially on the rare(!) occasions that I mess something up since I don’t look at the comments or Twitter much.
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, April 2, are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT website or Games app.
You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.
There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.
Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.
If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.
If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication’s Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.
Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my hints via Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.
What Are Today’s Connections Hints?
Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.
Today’s 16 words (well, symbols) are…
- FANCY
- READING
- NICE
- IMPULSE
- JOB
- TYPE
- LIKE
- VENUS
- KIND
- HERB
- ROBIN
- LARK
- TENNESSEE
- WHIM
- SORT
- HANK
And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:
- Yellow group — sudden idea or a spontaneous activity, perhaps
- Green group — classification
- Blue group — like John, Michelle and Maisie
- Purple group — like polish and mobile
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s Connections groups are…
- Yellow group — caprice
- Green group — ilk
- Blue group — Williamses
- Purple group — words pronounced differently as proper nouns
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections answers are…
- Yellow group — caprice (FANCY, IMPULSE, LARK, WHIM)
- Green group — ilk (KIND, LIKE, SORT, TYPE)
- Blue group — Williamses (HANK, ROBIN, TENNESSEE, VENUS)
- Purple group — words pronounced differently as proper nouns (HERB, JOB, NICE, READING)
My record streak rolls on with a 36th win and a perfect game. Here’s how I fared:
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TENNESSEE and VENUS were dead giveaways for the blues. It’s been over a decade since he passed and I still miss Robin Williams so very much. Not only was he incredibly funny and seemingly just as kind, he was a big gamer! He famously named his daughter Zelda (after the character in Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda series) and he was very much into Call of Duty as well.
Anyway, the yellows were up next, though it took me a moment to realize FANCY should go with them (as in “a flight of fancy”). I’ve never heard of the word “caprice” before, so hey, I learned something today!
From there, the greens seemed pretty obvious to me, and you know what that means – I had to submit the purple group first. I didn’t deduce the connection before sliding those through, especially because I always pronounce HERB the proper way, with the “h.”
As far as the proper nouns go, HERB is a person’s name as is JOB (“johb”), in the sense of the biblical figure. NICE (like “niece”) is a city in France, and READING (“red-ding”) is a place in England or Pennsylvania.
That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Thursday’s game if you need them.
P.S. Let’s go with a song by a different Williams – Hayley Williams – and her band. I never got super into Paramore, but they have a few songs I like a ton. None more so than “Hard Times.” It has quite a juxtaposition between the downbeat, serious lyrics and the funky track and colorful video. In any case, it rarely fails to get me moving:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Call someone you love!
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