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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 you are instead looking for the Thursday puzzle then click here: NYT Connections Tips & Answers for Thursday, April 30 (Game #1054).
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 (Set #1055) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- SHED
- WAX
- ALE
- HIVE
- CREST
- HONEY
- MIX
- COMB
- POLISH
- WEIGHT
- WATTLE
- CITRINE
- SHINE
- BEAK
- AMBER
- POLISH
NYT Connections Today (Game #1055) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some leads for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Final touch up after car wash.
- BLUE: avian elements
- GREEN: Clearly yellow-orange
- PURPLE: Altered numbers
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 #1055) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: MAKE BRIGHT
- BLUE: CHARACTERISTICS OF A BIRD’S HEAD
- GREEN: TRANSLUCENT GOLDEN THINGS
- PURPLE: NUMBERS WITH THE FIRST LETTER CHANGED
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #1055): The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #1055 are…
- YELLOW: MAKE BRIGHT POLISHING, POLISHING, SHINE, WAX
- BLUE: CHARACTERISTICS OF A BIRD’S HEAD BEAK, COMB, CREST, DOWN
- GREEN: TRANSLUCENT GOLDEN THINGS ALE, AMBER, CITRINE, HONEY
- PURPLE: NUMBERS WITH THE FIRST LETTER CHANGED HIVE, MIX, POUR, WEIGH
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 error
Hopefully, I wasn’t the only player who fell into the bee-related trap, collecting HIVE, HONEY, WAX, and COMB.
However, this mistake helped me focus on other uses for WAX and its obvious car cleaning companions BUFF, POLISH and SHINE. Not that the MAKE BRILLIANT activity is exclusive to cars: you can also IMPROVE your medal or trophy collection. Something Cristiano Ronaldo certainly hires someone to do on a daily basis.
In the meantime, I was very pleased to learn the CHARACTERISTICS OF A BIRD’S HEAD, largely thanks to knowing what a DOWN is (that’s not the beginning of a tongue twister, by the way).
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Thursday, April 30, game #1054)
- YELLOW: NERVE ALARM, DISTURB, SHOCK, SHOCK
- GREEN: DELETE, AS ITEM FROM A LIST, WITH “OFF” CHECK, CROSS, MARK, MARK
- BLUE: WHAT THE “T” COULD REPRESENT TESLA, TIME, TRUE, TYRANNOSAURUS
- PURPLE: HOMOPHONES OF POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES TIME, HUR, THERE, YESTERDAY
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.
