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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 Friday puzzle instead then click here: NEW Connections Hints and Answers for Friday, April 24 (Game #1048).
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 #1049) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- HAYSTACK
- FORK
- COPPER
- OCEAN
- CAST IRON
- ENAMELING
- HURLY-BURLY
- SEAM
- DICK
- Chuck E.
- EAST
- HAIR
- QUANTITY
- RUBBER SHOES
- SKIN
- MILLION
- FLAT FOOT
NEW Connections today (game #1049) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Human protection
- GREEN: Sentences including a large amount
- BLUE: retro ways to describe a detective
- PURPLE: Start with a word for “caste”
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 #1049) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: BODY CLOTHING
- GREEN: LOTS, IN IDIOMS
- BLUE: OLD TIMEY Slang FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
- PURPLE: STARTS WITH SYNONYMS FOR “THROW”
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #1049) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #1049, are…
- YELLOW: BODY CLOTHING ENAMEL, HAIR, NAILS, SKIN
- GREEN: LOTS, IN IDIOMS MANY, STACKS, MILLIONS, OCEAN
- BLUE: OLD TIMEY Slang FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT COPPER, PICK, FLATFOOT, RUBBER SHOES
- PURPLE: STARTS WITH SYNONYMS FOR “THROW” CAST IRON, SEASONING E. CHEESE, HURLY-BURLY, CHIN
- My assessment: Hard
- My score: 1 error
Today’s green group MANY, I IDIOMS was one that I put together without really thinking about it, but the phrase “needle in a haystack” had been on my mind earlier in the game when I made the mistake of inexplicably connecting HAYSTACK, PITCHFORK, MILLION and NAIL.
I’m really not sure what I was thinking there, but I pulled myself together enough to get OLD TIMEY SLANG FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT. This is an area where they could have come up with 160 different tiles, such are the many different nicknames for bobbies and narcs.
Alas, today the purple group passed me by – mainly because I had mistakenly assumed that an inside knowledge of CHUCK E CHEESE was required, when all that was actually required was knowledge of the word “chuck”.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Friday, April 24, Game #1048)
- YELLOW: PIZZA INGREDIENTS CHEESE, DOUGH, PEPPERONI, TOMATO SAUCE
- GREEN: ASSOCIATED WITH OCTOPUS ARMS, INK, INTELLIGENCE, CUPS
- BLUE: THEY HAVE BLADES GRASS, HELICOPTERS, JACKERS, LAWN MOWERS
- PURPLE: WHAT “CAB” MAY REFER TO CABIN, CALLOWAY, RED WINE, TAXI
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.
