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Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for April 26 below.
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Solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.
Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Today's Connection Grid and Words
- Spot
- Cliff
- Pitch
- Building
- Mother
- Clock
- Catch
- Strings
- Register
- Fine Print
- Jane
- Tone
- Polyhedron
- Caveat
- Range
- Dick
Today's Connections Group Hints
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Stipulation
- 🟩 Green: Vocal characteristics
- 🟦 Blue: Characters in "Dick and Jane"
- 🟪 Purple: Things with faces
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Today's Connections answers
The Connections answers on April 25 for puzzle #1,050 are just as easy (or as tricky!) as yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at just 2.3 out of 5.
- 🟨 Stipulation: Catch, caveat, fine print, strings
- 🟩 Vocal characteristics: Pitch, range, register, tone
- 🟦 Characters in "Dick and Jane": Dick, Jane, Mother, Spot
- 🟪 Things with faces: Building, cliff, clock, polyhedron
The first thing I caught today was pitch, tone and register all being to do with singing, and then I closed that group out with register.
I then spotted catch and caveat, and realized that meant there were other words to do with having some sort of condition involved, remembered the phrase "no strings attached," and clocked that the final word or phrase for the yellow group must be fine print, as in "make sure you read the fine print."
I can't say I'm a "Dick and Jane" expert, but I had a hunch that Dick, Jane, Mother and Spot all went together as they were all proper nouns, and that just left the remaining four words to form the purple category, things with faces: building, cliff, clock and polyhedron.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Body coverings: Enamel, hair, nail, skin
- 🟩 Masses, in idioms: Crowd, haystack, million, ocean
- 🟦 Old timey slang for law enforcement: Copper, dick, flatfoot, gumshoe
- 🟪 Starting with synonyms for "throw": Cast iron, chuck e. cheese, hurly-burly, pitchfork
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,049, which had a difficulty rating of 2.3 out of 5.
I often latch onto a word at the start and gnaw on it until I get my first connection. Today's word was gumshoe. It took a moment before I clicked on copper and saw the slang. Dick quickly followed, but I had forgotten about flatfoot for a bit before I was able to put the blue set together.
Chuck E. Cheese is the word I leapt on next. Hurly-burly is how I got to the throwing set. This led to cast iron and then pitchfork.
Today's puzzle is a good reminder that, in general, the yellow sets are nouns and the green ones tend to be concepts. So, with the final eight, I saw the concepts of masses with crowd, haystack, million and ocean.
Which left the body parts in enamel, hair, nail and skin.
