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Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for April 19 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
- Mint
- Arch
- Dud
- Hole
- Fresh
- Bust
- Kid
- Flop
- Waist
- Wise
- River
- Sassy
- Turn
- Length
- Cap
- Hips
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: Cheeky
- 🟩 Green: Dress measurements
- 🟦 Blue: Cards in Texas Hold 'Em
- 🟪 Purple: Last words of candy brands in the singular
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 19 for puzzle #1,043 are slightly trickier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2 out of 5.
- 🟨 Cheeky: Arch, fresh, sassy, wise
- 🟩 Dress Measurements: Bust, hips, length, waist
- 🟦 Cards in Texas Hold 'Em: Flop, hole, river, turn
- 🟪 Last Words of Candy Brands in the Singular: Cap, dud, kid, mint
The two most obvious groupings, to me, were the blue group (Cards in Texas Hold'Em) and the green group (Dress Measurements).
The tricky word here is Bust, but once you figure out that's the red herring of the bunch, those two categories jump out nicely.
That left me with the yellow group. Fresh, sassy, and wise fell together pretty easily, and I got Arch easily enough by simply thinking of misbehaving; you "arch" an eyebrow.
That left us with the four remaining answers — cap, dud, kid and mint — to put together for the purple connection.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Look at with awe: Goggle, marvel, stare, wonder
- 🟩 Basic electricity terms: AC, DC, power, voltage
- 🟦 Unexpected winner: Dark horse, long shot, sleeper, underdog
- 🟪 Starting with soda brands: Crushworthy, fantagraphics, frescade, pepsinogen
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1042, which had a difficulty rating of 1.5 out of 5.
There's an obvious trap in today's puzzle with the comic book companies Marvel, DC, Fantagraphics and Dark Horse. This nicely gives you clues to the sets.
I started with Fantagraphics because it stands out from the other three, and I figured it had a word hidden in it. Crushworthy is where I saw the soda connection. Which is how I got to frescade and pepsinogen. And of course, fantagaphics.
I nabbed DC next with AC, power and voltage, mostly because I was thinking about the AC/DC album High Voltage.
Dark Horse is probably my favorite comics publisher right now, so I went there next with long shot, sleeper and underdog for the blue set.
And we wrapped it all up with marvel, goggle, stare and wonder.
