Find the links between the words to win today's game of Connections.
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Each day’s game of NYT Connections goes live at midnight local time. Before today’s NYT Connections hints, here’s what you missed on Sunday:
ForbesNYT Connections Hints Today: Sunday, April 19 Clues And Answers (#1043)
Hey there, Connectors! I hope you had an excellent weekend. I’m delighted to be back here with you for another Monday-Friday run of this column.
On Mondays, I like to get things started here with a fun, upbeat song. The only reason I do this is to hopefully help lift your spirits at the start of the week. If the tune gets you singing and dancing a little, even better.
Let’s go back to '99 for this big beat classic from Fatboy Slim. I always loved the video for “Praise You” too:
Before we start, I want to highlight the rad community we have on Discord, where we chat about Connections, the rest of the NYT games and all kinds of other stuff. It’s a lovely group of folks. You’re more than welcome to join us.
Also, my weekend editions of this column are available over on my newsletter, Pastimes. If you enjoy the intros and recommendations in my Connections columns, I publish longer pieces along similar lines on Pastimes as well. I think you’d dig them.
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, April 20 are coming right up. Let’s get rolling!
Connections is a free New York Times daily word game that you can play on the NYT’s website or Games app. If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the Connections archive, which includes every previous game.
Connections presents you with a grid of 16 words (sometimes phrases, symbols or numbers). The aim is to arrange them into four groups of four. You don’t know how they hit together or what the category for each group is: that’s what you have to figure out.
There’s only one correct solution and there are often red herrings. You can guess incorrectly three times. A fourth wrong guess, and it’s game over.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to deduce, followed by blue, green and purple. Often, the yellow and green groups have synonyms, the blues have cultural references and the purples have some kind of wordplay involved. But this is not a hard and fast rule. Be ready for curveballs – part of the fun of Connections is in how the NYT shakes things up to keep you on your toes.
As with Wordle and similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends using an emoji-based grid. The game tracks your progress too.
Many players take pride in having long win streaks or getting a reverse rainbow – correctly guessing the purple, blue, green and yellow groups in that order with no mistakes. That adds an extra little challenge.
Scroll slowly! I’ll first give you a list of today’s words, then a hint for each category. After that, I’ll reveal one word that goes into each group. Then I’ll tell you the category names, followed by the full answers.
Today’s 16 words are...
And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Let’s take a look at one answer for each group.
Here we go…
Today’s Connections groups are...
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.
This is your last chance to look away.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections answers are...
Placing MEATLESS and CANNIBALISM next to each other on the default bottom line is diabolical. In any case, I got the yellows and greens quickly.
Once we were down to the final eight words, I realized that there were four that are associated with spiders. I didn't realize that they were specifically referencing black widow spiders, but I'll take it.
I hadn't heard of MEATLESS Monday before (or at least not that I can recall), but the rest of the words made the category clear to me.
A regular rainbow extends my streak to 415 straight wins.
How did you get on today? Here's my grid:
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
Rather than having a separate Answers Explained column today – since I think there are only a few things to go over – I’ll run through them here instead.
Many black widow spiders have an HOURGLASS on their abdomen that acts as a warning sign to would-be predators.
“BLUE Monday” and "MANIC Monday" are songs by New Order and The Bangles, respectively. CYBER Monday is an online sales event that takes place the Monday after Thanksgiving in the U.S. MEATLESS Monday is a tradition for many people – they don’t eat meat on that day of the week.
The red herring concerned CLOUD, NET, WEB and CYBER. They’re all internet-related terms.
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 Tuesday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I’m bumping another song I had planned for today to tomorrow, because I very obviously have to recommend “Blue Monday” given today’s purples. I think I’ve used "Manic Monday" before, so this was the way to go:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!
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