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ForbesNYT Connections Hints Today: Clues And Answers For Thursday, April 10By Kris HoltHey, folks! The weekend is right around the corner and I think most of us can be thankful for that.
Friends, I usually like to reserve this space for a fun anecdote, a memory from my life that I hope will have broader resonance, an upbeat song recommendation or something else that’s neat.
Not today.
I’m so incandescently furious with myself for falling into a trap in today’s Connections that I’m more mad it wasn’t even close to a group. I was blinded by my hubris.
Those with an affinity for a certain form of entertainment will surely spot what turned out to be a glaring red herring pretty much straight away. But I hope today’s hints will help you avoid the same trap that ensnared me.
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 Friday, April 11, 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…
- CITRUS
- CITY
- RED CARPET
- ALL OUT
- AMERICAN FLAG
- KART
- BETWEEN
- SUNSHINE
- GALAXY
- LEAFY GREENS
- WORLD
- UBER RATING
- LAND
- STEADY
- SUPPLEMENTS
- TOWN
And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:
- Yellow group — where to get essentials for the body
- Green group — you may have seen these at the mall
- Blue group — like a movie review or a sheriff’s uniform
- Purple group — fish and gadget would work 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 — sources of vitamins
- Green group — places used in retail suffixes
- Blue group — places to find stars
- Purple group — words after “go”
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 — sources of vitamins (CITRUS, LEAFY GREENS, SUNSHINE, SUPPLEMENTS)
- Green group — places used in retail suffixes (CITY, LAND, TOWN, WORLD)
- Blue group — places to find stars (AMERICAN FLAG, GALAXY, RED CARPET, UBER RATING)
- Purple group — words after “go” (ALL OUT, BETWEEN, KART, STEADY)
That’s a 45th win in a row. But I’m not entirely happy about it. Here’s how I fared:
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I was very excited when I saw KART, SUNSHINE, GALAXY, WORLD and LAND. I figured there just had to be a group of Super Mario games in there. I determined (correctly) that GALAXY would go into a group of things with stars, so I lumped the other four together. I wasn’t even one away from a group.
Anyway, I got the blues first. UBER RATING was a dead giveaway there. The yellows were no problem either.
I didn’t figure out the green connection exactly. I just thought that they’d be a group of location-based things. I didn’t have a clear idea in my head, but hey, this worked.
As for the purples, sure, fine. That makes sense. To go ALL OUT means to give something your full effort and a go BETWEEN is a messenger between two people or groups. Go KART is evident enough, and go STEADY means to date someone exclusively.
I’m still mad about that red herring. It’s a-me, someone who gets angry about fun puzzle games.
I’m kidding, I’m fine. But this one stuck out enough that I had to go on a separate mini rant about it in another post.
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 Saturday’s game if you need them.
P.S. Since I had an Inspector Gadget reference in my hints (“go, go gadget…”), it’s only fitting to recommend the cartoon today.
I loved that show as a kid. The theme song is unforgettable. Here’s the full pilot episode for you, just because:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Call someone you love!
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