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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 Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, April 13 (game #672).
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 #673) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- HUNT
- CHECK
- GAME
- FORD
- PRESIDENT
- PLAY
- CAR
- STOP
- OXEN
- BLOCK
- MOVIE
- ACTOR
- DAM
- DYSENTERY
- DIRECTOR
- CONCERT
NYT Connections today (game #673) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Prevent
- GREEN: Sold out
- BLUE: Pioneer life strategy
- PURPLE: A word in the blue group is the common thread
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 #673) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: RESTRICT
- GREEN: TICKETED EVENTS
- BLUE: ASSOCIATED WITH THE GAME THE OREGON TRAIL
- PURPLE: WHAT “FORD” MIGHT REFER TO
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #673) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #673, are…
- YELLOW: RESTRICT BLOCK, CHECK, DAM, STOP
- GREEN: TICKETED EVENTS CONCERT, GAME, MOVIE, PLAY
- BLUE: ASSOCIATED WITH THE GAME THE OREGON TRAIL
- DYSENTERY, FORD, HUNT, OXEN
- PURPLE: WHAT “FORD” MIGHT REFER TO ACTOR, CAR, DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT
- My rating: Hard
- My score: Fail
I crashed out today, after getting the yellow and green group. RESTRICT was easy enough, although I did hesitate over DAM, thinking that it could be in a water-based group with FORD, but I took the leap.
I got the green group without thinking tickets was the common thread, just that they were all things people paid for.
After this I was utterly clueless and tried random groupings with little logic. For my final guess I did almost make it, as I got “one away”, but it was too late. I should have realised that FORD was both an answer and a connector.
In my defense, The Oregon Trail is not something that really crossed the Atlantic to the UK, although I do have vague recollections of “You have dysentry” T-shirts going viral a couple of decades ago – not that I understood why.
How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Sunday, 13 April, game #672)
- YELLOW: STEAL NICK, PINCH, POCKET, SWIPE
- GREEN: ATTENDANCE STATUS ABSENT, EXCUSED, LATE, PRESENT
- BLUE: FONT-MODIFYING WORDS GOTHIC, ROMAN, SANS, TYPEWRITER
- PURPLE: __BERRY CAPER, ELDER, GOOSE, LOGAN
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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