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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 27 (Game #1051).
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 #1052) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- CALL
- TAN
- DRY
- FLOWER
- CHECK
- TICK
- FOLD
- TENDER
- PHOSPHORUS
- CLASSIFY
- STAMP
- APPEAL
- WASH
- SCREEN
- ORDER
- COUPON
NYT Connections Today (Game #1052) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some leads for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Plea Agreement
- GREEN: Things you do to clothes
- BLUE: They share a format with fiction
- PURPLE: Start with a short, bright word.
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 #1052) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: PLEA
- GREEN: WASHING DAY VERBS
- BLUE: THINGS THAT COME IN “BOOKS”
- PURPLE: SUN_____
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #1052): The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #1052 are…
- YELLOW: PLEA APPEAL, OFFER, CALL, REQUEST
- GREEN: WASHING DAY VERBS DRY, FOLD, SORT, WASH
- BLUE: THINGS THAT COME IN “BOOKS” CHECK, COUPON, MATCH, STAMP
- PURPLE: SUN_____ SPHERE, FLOWER, SCREEN, TAN
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
While I was excited to complete this game, it was one I regretted, as I only saw the purple/hardest four-word group starting with SOL_____ with only eight tiles left, and there’s no glory in that.
I was initially close to selecting a group that was about collecting flowers, but beyond DRY everything seemed too vague and luckily I submitted the much more likely group of LAUNDRY DAY VERBS.
I was stumped by THINGS THAT COME IN “BOOKS” and I think that’s down to a mix of cultural differences (COUPON books don’t really exist in the UK) and redundant objects in the form of MATCH books and CHECK books, both of which I haven’t seen in almost a decade.
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Monday, April 27, game #1051)
- YELLOW: SALAD INGREDIENTS RANCH DRESSING, PURPLE ONION, ROASTED CHICKEN, ROMAN LETTUCE
- GREEN: CLASSIC FILMS RAIN MAN, BACK WINDOW, RESERVOIR DOGS, ROMAN HOLIDAY
- BLUE: CHARACTERS FROM “THE SIMPSONS” RADIOACTIVE MAN, RALPH WIGGUM, REVEREND LOVEJOY, ROD FLANDERS
- PURPLE: ENDING IN NBA PLAYERS RAGANT BULL, REGINA KING, EGGS, ROTARY CLIPPER
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.
