Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers, Tuesday Apr 1
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How to play Connections
Connections is one of the most popular (and challenging) daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). The aim of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, where each group of four words has a common theme.
For instance, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter”, and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or to take another example, “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go”, and “Stick” are all words which commonly come just before the word “Figure”.
Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the various words together – but be wary, because a lot of the time there are deceptive red herring connections placed purely to throw you off! To win the game, you have to find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is revealed automatically.
Each of the four groups in each day’s Connections puzzle is also assigned a different colour, which represents how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colours are: Yellow (Easiest), Green (Easy), Blue (Medium), and Purple (Hardest).
Click here to play today’s Connections puzzle!
Connections hint for Tuesday 1st April
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: These are on your money.
- Green: Ampersands and whatnot.
- Blue: Open wide!
- Purple: Opposite of left.
- Extra hint 1: Think of N and X in terms of mathematics.
- Extra hint 2: P looks like a tongue sticking out, doesn’t it?
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: €
- Green: +
- Blue: O
- Purple: ✓
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!
What are today’s Connections groups?
If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four correct Connections groups – the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.
Here are the Connections groups for today:
- Yellow: Currency Symbols
- Green: And/Together With
- Blue: Emoticon Mouths
- Purple: “Right”
Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections answer lies ahead!
What is today’s Connections answer?
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Tuesday, 1st April:
- Yellow: Currency Symbols ($, £, ¥, €)
- Green: And/Together With (&, +, N, X)
- Blue: Emoticon Mouths ((, ), O, P)
- Purple: “Right” (R, →, ⊾, ✓)
When I first saw today’s Connections, I was flabbergasted. Doubly so, as it was my duty to write this guide and I had no idea what I was looking at. Then I remembered that it was April 1. After checking last year’s emoji-filled puzzle and realising that this was nothing new, I actually got the Currency Symbols group easily. The rest were more challenging – while “&” and “+” obviously belonged together, “N” and “X” confused me, and I kept wanting to place them together with “O,” “P,” and “R” to form a collection of letters. It was only after I started thinking of multiplication and other associated maths symbols that I made the connection.
I went on to solve the Blue group of emoticon mouths next. Once I figured out that “(” and “)” were frown and smiley faces, I recalled my days of posting on forums, when I had to sign off with “:P” because emojis weren’t invented yet. (I was always suspicious of folks who added a nose in there – something about “:-P” just looks sinister to me.) And then I grouped the Purple words together by default and called it a day. Nice job making me flex my mind on April Fools, Connections.
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