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A new NEW Connections puzzle pops up at midnight every day for your time zone – meaning some people are always playing “today’s game” while others are playing “yesterday’s”. If you’re looking for the Monday puzzle instead then click here: NEW Connections Hints and Answers for Monday, April 6 (Game #1030).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers into different categories. It can be difficult, so read on if you need Connections tips.
SPOILER ALERT: Today’s NYT Connections information is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
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NEW Connections today (game #1031) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- ONE
- MATCH
- AFTER
- ANOTHER
- WILD
- GAME
- IN
- MATCH
- NIGHT
- CLASH
- DOWN
- LOW
- NO
- WILLING
- EITHER
- COMPETITION
NEW Connections today (game #1031) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Game
- GREEN: Fully committed
- BLUE: Vague choices
- PURPLE: Add a word that rhymes with “wife”
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…
NEW Connections today (game #1031) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: COMPETITION
- GREEN: ON BOARD
- BLUE: WORDS FOR UNSPECIFIED CHOICES
- PURPLE: ____LIFE
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #1031) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #1031, are…
- YELLOW: COMPETITION FIGHT, KLASH, COMPETITION, FIGHT
- GREEN: ON BOARD DOWN, PLAY, IN, WILLING
- BLUE: WORDS FOR UNSPECIFIED CHOICES ANOTHER, EITHER, NONE, ONE
- PURPLE: ____LIFE AFTER, LOW, NIGHT, WILD
- My assessment: Easy
- My score: Perfect
In Saturday’s Connections game, the tiles ‘let’, ‘sleep’, ‘dogs’ and ‘lie’ became the group “let sleeping dogs lie”, so ONE, BATTLE, AFTER, ANOTHER might well have been a group in honor of the brilliant award-winning film of the same name, rather than a red herring.
I decided not to risk it and instead linked BATTLE with MATCH, CLASH and CONTEST and hit submit, glad I hadn’t fallen for this most obvious trap.
With eight spaces left, I was unsure of any connection, so I took a bet with EITHER AND NONE – and then, thinking they sounded like vague choices, I chose ONE AND ONE. And just like that, I had completed a game on difficulty for the second day in a row.
Yesterday’s NEW Connections Answer (Monday, April 6, Game #1030)
- YELLOW: EVENTS WITH DANCE BALL, HOEDOWN, JUMP, RAVE
- GREEN: INTEREST DEMAND, CONCERN, SHARE, QUIET
- BLUE: COMPONENTS OF WHAC-A-MOLE HOLES, MATCHES, MULLET, HOURS
- PURPLE: MUSICALS WITH THE LAST LETTER CHANGED CARRUUSER, EVITE, OLIVE, WICKET
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four elements that share something in common, and each group has a different degree of difficulty: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough, and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you technically don’t need to solve the last one, as you’ll be able to answer it by a process of elimination. Also, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It’s a bit more involved than something like Wordle, though, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to let you beat yourself up with tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other puns that can hide the answers.
It can be played for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
