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ForbesNYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Monday, April 7By Kris HoltHey everyone, I hope your week is off to a great start.
I’ve never been very good at planning for the future. I’ve always been someone who lives in the moment and takes things as they come. That’s not a very smart approach, though, and I have to start considering more carefully what’s ahead for me.
After some in-depth and positive conversations with my partner recently, my path forward is looking a little clearer. You can never know for certain what’s ahead, but the clearer your goals are, the easier it may be to work toward them.
I think I have a positive path in front of me. It’s a journey I’m looking forward to sharing with my partner, especially after we’ve resolved a few health issues. Having an optimistic mindset (which I usually do anyway) will certainly help take us forward.
Before we begin, I’ve set up a discussion group for NYT Connections and this column on Discord. We have a great little community over there and we chat about more than NYT games. Everyone who has joined has been lovely. It’s a fun hangout spot.
It’s also the best way to give me any feedback about the column, especially on the rare(!) occasions that I mess something up since I don’t look at the comments or Twitter much.
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, April 8, are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT website or Games app.
You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.
There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.
Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.
If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.
If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication’s Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.
Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my hints via Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.
What Are Today’s Connections Hints?
Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.
Today’s 16 words are…
- NEGATIVE
- NUMBERS
- SEAN
- JOB
- PIERCE
- SUGAR
- STICK
- ROGER
- SURE
- DANIEL
- OVER
- SIOBHAN
- POKE
- COPY
- JUDGES
- JAB
And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:
- Yellow group — a necessary part of an inoculation or a shot. Also, just a terrible person
- Green group — the NATO phonetic alphabet can come in handy here
- Blue group — like wisdom and Joel
- Purple group — artificial and tradition might fit in here
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s Connections groups are…
- Yellow group — prick
- Green group — radio lingo
- Blue group — Old Testament books
- Purple group — words pronounced “sh” without an “sh”
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections answers are…
- Yellow group — prick (JAB, PIERCE, POKE, STICK)
- Green group — radio lingo (COPY, NEGATIVE, OVER, ROGER)
- Blue group — Old Testament books (DANIEL, JOB, JUDGES, NUMBERS)
- Purple group — words pronounced “sh” without an “sh” (SEAN, SIOBHAN, SUGAR, SURE)
Had I been more careful, this could have been a perfect game. Still, my streak is up to 42 wins. Here’s how I fared:
🟪🟨🟩🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
Oh no, a red herring caught me out instantly. I was so sure that SEAN, PIERCE, ROGER and DANIEL would be a group of the first names of James Bond actors. But nope! Not even one away. That was maddening. I was so confident!
Alas, I got the yellows first. The greens were next up after that. There was only one way that ROGER could go at that point.
SIOBHAN (usually pronounced “sh-vorn” or “sh-von”) then jumped out at me. It had to go with SEAN, then I figured out the connection between this, SURE and SUGAR.
That left the blues for another victory. I did not figure out the connection here as I’m not very familiar with religious texts.
That Bond red herring got me good, though.
That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Wednesday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I was on vacation last week. We had a great time, thanks for asking! On one evening at our resort, there was a silent disco.
Neither my partner or I had been to one before and we enjoyed it a ton. Three DJs played separate sets that we could switch between on our headphones. One of the highlights was when I momentarily removed the cans to hear one person belting out “YMCA” by themselves. That was very funny, and I’m glad they were enjoying themselves.
One of the DJs mostly played rock music, including a ton of Queen tracks. They also spun this song, which I hadn’t heard in ages and now is firmly lodged in my skull.
“In The Shadows” by The Rasmus was everywhere in 2004. And now it’s here, in the recommendations section of your favorite hints and answers column for a fun word game:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Call someone you love!
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