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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 Friday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, April 11 (game #670).
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 #671) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- SIN
- SEC
- SUN
- TAN
- FLASH
- BOTS
- FALL
- CAME
- BIT
- BUCK
- KEN
- STRAY
- NET
- JIFF
- ERR
- SPUR
NYT Connections today (game #671) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Brief moments
- GREEN: Fail
- BLUE: Ballers
- PURPLE: Add letters to make countries
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 #671) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: SHORT PERIOD OF TIME
- GREEN: DO WRONG
- BLUE: N.B.A. PLAYER
- PURPLE: STARTS OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #671) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #671, are…
- YELLOW: SHORT PERIOD OF TIME BIT, FLASH, JIFF, SEC
- GREEN: DO WRONG ERR, FALL, SIN, STRAY
- BLUE: N.B.A. PLAYER BUCK, NET, SPUR, SUN
- PURPLE: STARTS OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES BOTS, CAME, KEN, TAN
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 1 mistake
I immediately guessed that we were looking for words that meant fractions of something, but I didn’t realise time was the common thread.
That led me to make a mistake looking for a group of things that were slightly off-target, with STRAY instead of JIFF giving me “one away”. Then I remembered my grandmother always saying she’d be “down in a jiff” when she was getting ready to go out.
Another phrase, “ERR on the side of caution”, delayed me getting DO WRONG – but with FALL, SIN and STRAY locked in, it was the only other option. As well as being cautious, err also means doing something wrong.
Despite limited US sports knowledge I got the singular NBA PLAYER words easily enough. A good thing, as STARTS OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES was far from my thoughts when I looked at the words remaining.
At a push I’d have guessed BOTS, CAME, KEN and TAN were presenters of a YouTube prank show with 800 subscribers or the IATA codes for Australian airports, but never the start of Botswana, Cameroon, Kenya, and Tanzania.
How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Friday, 11 April, game #670)
- YELLOW: SOURCES OF VITAMINS CITRUS, LEAFY GREENS, SUNSHINE, SUPPLEMENTS
- GREEN: PLACES USED IN RETAIL SUFFIXES CITY, LAND, TOWN, WORLD
- BLUE: PLACES TO FIND STARS AMERICAN FLAG, GALAXY, RED CARPET, UBER RATING
- PURPLE: WORDS AFTER “GO” ALL OUT, BETWEEN, KART, STEADY
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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