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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 Saturday puzzle instead then click here: NEW 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 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 #1050) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- PLACE
- CLIFF
- PITCH
- BUILDING
- MOTHER
- CLOCK
- CATCH
- STRINGS
- REGISTER
- Small print
- JANE
- TONE
- POLYHEDRON
- WARNING
- RANGE
- DICK
NEW Connections today (game #1050) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: An agreement with reservations
- GREEN: Song 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…
NEW Connections today (game #1050) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: REGULATIONS
- GREEN: VOCAL CHARACTERISTICS
- BLUE: CHARACTERS IN “DICK AND JANE”
- PURPLE: THINGS WITH FACES
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #1050) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #1050, are…
- YELLOW: REGULATIONS CATCH, WARNING, FINLET, STRICT
- 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 error
My first quartet of tiles today fell into the category of a yellow group I thought would be purple.
Whenever this happens, I know I’m in for a tough fight, and today’s was no exception as I could barely see two words that could be connected – 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 gone” message, MOM seemed the next most obvious. Next, with only eight tiles left, I immediately saw VOCAL CHARACTERISTICS.
Yesterday’s NEW Connections Answer (Saturday, April 25, Game #1049)
- 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
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.
