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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears every day at midnight for your time zone – which means some people are still playing “today’s game” while others are playing “yesterday’s.” If you are looking for the Friday puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections Tips and Answers for Friday, April 24 (Thu #1048).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the clever word game from the New York Times that challenges you to group answers into different categories. This can be difficult, so read on if you need tips on connections.
SPOILER WARNING: The information on 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 #1049) – words of the day
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- HAYSTACK
- FORK
- COPPER
- OCEAN
- CAST IRON
- REALLY-BURLY
- NAIL
- TAIL
- CHUCK E.
- CHEESE
- HAIR
- CROWD
- GUMSHOE
- SKIN
- MILLION
- COP
NYT Connections today (game #1049) – clue #1 – group clues
What are the clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Human protection
- GREEN: Sentences including a large quantity
- BLUE: retro ways to describe a detective
- PURPLE: Start with a word for “launch”
Need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four themed answers are for today’s NYT Connections riddles…
NYT Connections today (game #1049) – clue #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: BODY COVERINGS
- GREEN: MASSES, IN IDIOMS
- BLUE: OLD TIMEY SLANG FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
- PURPLE: START WITH THE SYNONYMS OF “THROW”
That’s right, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #1049) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #1049 are…
- YELLOW: BODY COVERINGS ENAMEL, HAIR, NAILS, SKIN
- GREEN: MASSES, IN IDIOMS Crowd, haystack, million, ocean
- BLUE: OLD TIMEY SLANG FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT COPPER, DICK, FLATFOOT, GUMSHOE
- PURPLE: START WITH THE SYNONYMS OF “THROW” FONTE, CHUCK E. CHEESE, HURLY-BURLY, PITCHFORK
- My rating: Hard
- My rating: 1 error
Today’s green group, MASSES, IN IDIOMS, was created without much thought, but the phrase “a needle in a haystack” had come to mind earlier in the game when I made a mistake by inexplicably connecting HAYSTACK, PITCHFORK, MILLION, and NAIL.
I’m really not sure what I was thinking there, but I pulled myself together enough to get the OLD TIMEY ARANG FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT. This is an area where they could have created 160 different tiles, such is the variety of nicknames for bobbies and narcs.
Alas, today the purple group passed me by – largely because I had wrongly assumed that one needed to have extensive knowledge of CHUCK E CHEESE, when all that was really needed was knowledge of the word “chuck”.
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Friday April 24, Thu #1048)
- YELLOW: PIZZA INGREDIENTS CHEESE, PASTA, PEPPERONI, TOMATO SAUCE
- GREEN: ASSOCIATED WITH OCTOPUS ARMS, INK, INTELLIGENCE, SUCTION CUPS
- BLUE: THEY HAVE BLADES GRASS, HELICOPTER, ICE SKATES, LAW MOWER
- PURPLE: WHAT “CAB” COULD REFER TO CABIN, CALLOWAY, RED WINE, TAXI
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four elements that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow is a little more difficult, blue is often quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you technically don’t need to solve the final question, as you will be able to answer it through a process of elimination. Additionally, you can make up to four mistakes, giving you some breathing room.
However, it’s a bit more complex than something like Wordle, and the game provides plenty of opportunities to trip you up with tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other puns that could obscure the answers.
It is playable for free via the NYT Games website on computer or mobile.
