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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, April 25 (game #1049).
Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.
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NYT Connections today (game #1050) - today's words
Today's NYT Connections words are…
- SPOT
- CLIFF
- PITCH
- BUILDING
- MOTHER
- CLOCK
- CATCH
- STRINGS
- REGISTER
- FINE PRINT
- JANE
- TONE
- POLYHEDRON
- CAVEAT
- RANGE
- DICK
NYT Connections today (game #1050) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: An agreement with reservations
- GREEN: Singing vocabulary
- BLUE: Featured in popular children’s fiction
- PURPLE: A word that rhymes with “races” in common
Need more clues?
We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections today (game #1050) - hint #2 - group answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: STIPULATION
- GREEN: VOCAL CHARACTERISTICS
- BLUE: CHARACTERS IN "DICK AND JANE"
- PURPLE: THINGS WITH FACES
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NYT Connections today (game #1050) - the answers
The answers to today's Connections, game #1050, are…
- YELLOW: STIPULATION CATCH, CAVEAT, FINE PRINT, STRINGS
- GREEN: VOCAL CHARACTERISTICS PITCH, RANGE, REGISTER, TONE
- BLUE: CHARACTERS IN "DICK AND JANE" DICK, JANE, MOTHER, SPOT
- PURPLE: THINGS WITH FACES BUILDING, CLIFF, CLOCK, POLYHEDRON
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 mistake
My first quartet of tiles today fell into the category of a yellow group I thought was going to be purple.
Whenever this happens I know that I am in for a tough game and today’s was no exception, as I could barely see two words that could be linked — let alone four.
SPOT, DICK and JANE sounded like Children’s book characters, so I took a gamble and added CLIFF (something to do with Clifford the Big Red Dog perhaps?). After getting the “one away” message, MOTHER seemed the next most obvious. Next, with just eight tiles left I saw VOCAL CHARACTERISTICS immediately.
Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Saturday, April 25, game #1049)
- YELLOW: BODY COVERINGS ENAMEL, HAIR, NAIL, SKIN
- GREEN: MASSES, IN IDIOMS CROWD, HAYSTACK, MILLION, OCEAN
- BLUE: OLD TIMEY SLANG FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT COPPER, DICK, FLATFOOT, GUMSHOE
- PURPLE: STARTING WITH SYNONYMS FOR "THROW" CAST IRON, CHUCK E. CHEESE, HURLY-BURLY, PITCHFORK
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.