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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight every day for your time zone, which means some people are always playing “today’s game” while others play “yesterday’s game.” If instead you are looking for the Monday puzzle then click here: NYT Connections Tips & Answers for Monday, April 6 (Game #1030).
Good day! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers into various categories. It can be difficult, so read on if you need Connections tips.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
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NYT Connections Today (Game #1031): Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- ONE
- BATTLE
- AFTER
- OTHER
- WILD
- GAME
- IN
- PHOSPHORUS
- EVENING
- SHOCK
- BELOW
- LOW
- NEITHER
- WILLING
- ANY
- CONTEST
NYT Connections Today (Game #1031) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some leads for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Games
- GREEN: Fully committed
- BLUE: Vague selections
- PURPLE: Add a word that rhymes with “wife”
Do you need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the answers are to the four topics for today’s NYT Connections riddles…
NYT Connections Today (Game #1031) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: COMPETITION
- GREEN: ON BOARD
- BLUE: WORDS FOR UNSPECIFIED OPTIONS
- PURPLE: ____LIFE
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #1031): The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #1031 are…
- YELLOW: COMPETITION BATTLE, CRASH, CONTEST, MATCH
- GREEN: ON BOARD DOWN, PLAY, INSIDE, READY
- BLUE: WORDS FOR UNSPECIFIED OPTIONS OTHER, NONE, NONE, ONE
- PURPLE: ____LIFE AFTER, LOW, NIGHT, WILD
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
In Saturday’s Connections game, the ‘let’, ‘sleeping’, ‘dogs’ and ‘lie’ tiles became the group “let the sleeping dogs sleep”, so ONE, BATTLE, THEN, ANOTHER could well have been a group in honor of the brilliant award-winning film of the same name, rather than a red herring.
I decided not to risk it and instead linked BATTLE with MATCH, CLASH and CONTEST and hit send, happy that I hadn’t fallen into the most obvious trap.
With eight chips left, I wasn’t sure of any connection, so I bet with ANY and NONE, and then, thinking they sounded like vague picks, I chose OTHER and ONE. And just like that, I completed a game in order of difficulty for the second day in a row.
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Monday, April 6, game #1030)
- YELLOW: EVENTS WITH DANCE BALL, HOEDOWN, HOP, RAVE
- GREEN: INTEREST CLAIM, CARE, SHARE, BET
- BLUE: WHAC-A-MOLE COMPONENTS HOLES, MALLET, MOLE, TIMER
- PURPLE: MUSICALS WITH THE LAST LYRICS CHANGED CARRUSER, EVITE, OLIVAS, WICKET
What are NYT connections?
NYT Connections is one of the increasingly popular word games created 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 is a little harder, blue is usually quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final question since you’ll be able to answer it through a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little breathing room.
However, it’s a little more complicated than something like Wordle and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For example, be careful with homophones and other puns that could disguise answers.
It can be played for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile devices.
