Looking for a different day?
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 Tuesday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, April 1 (game #660).
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.
What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc’s Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (game #661) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- FANCY
- READING
- NICE
- IMPULSE
- JOB
- TYPE
- LIKE
- VENUS
- KIND
- HERB
- ROBIN
- LARK
- TENNESSEE
- WHIM
- SORT
- HANK
NYT Connections today (game #661) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Chance encounter
- GREEN: Stuff that is all very similar
- BLUE: A famous surname shared
- PURPLE: Grammatically speaking
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 #661) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: CAPRICE
- GREEN: ILK
- BLUE: WILLIAMSES
- PURPLE: WORDS PRONOUNCED DIFFERENTLY AS PROPER NOUNS
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #661) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #661, are…
- YELLOW: CAPRICE FANCY, IMPULSE, LARK, WHIM
- GREEN: ILK KIND, LIKE, SORT, TYPE
- BLUE: WILLIAMSES HANK, ROBIN, TENNESSEE, VENUS
- PURPLE: WORDS PRONOUNCED DIFFERENTLY AS PROPER NOUNS HERB, JOB, NICE, READING
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 2 mistakes
After yesterday’s headache-inducing letters and symbols, it was a relief to see a more regular collection of words. Not that it was much easier.
I had FANCY, NICE, SORT and KIND in a group together thinking they were all pleasant attributes, although in hindsight “sort” is a bit 1970s British comedy slang and unlikely to make it into Connections.
My next mistake was coupling LARK, JOB, VENUS and NICE, my thinking being we were looking for key parts of popular sayings (up with the lark, if a job’s worth doing…, men are from Mars, it’s nice to be nice,) but after going up that blind alley I regrouped.
I’m kicking myself that I didn’t get WILLIAMSES quicker and probably would have done if the list had included Serena.
How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, 1 April, game #660)
- YELLOW: CURRENCY SYMBOLS $, £, 7, €
- GREEN: AND/TOGETHER WITH &, +, N, X
- BLUE: EMOTICON MOUTHS (,), 0, Р
- PURPLE: “RIGHT” R, →, ⊾, V
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.
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