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Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for April 28 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
- Call
- Tan
- Dry
- Flower
- Check
- Dial
- Fold
- Bid
- Match
- Sort
- Stamp
- Appeal
- Wash
- Screen
- Request
- Coupon
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: Entreaty
- 🟩 Green: Laundry day verbs
- 🟦 Blue: Things that come in "books"
- 🟪 Purple: Sun ____
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 28 for puzzle #1,052 are the same difficulty as yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 3 out of 5.
- 🟨 Entreaty: Appeal, bid, call, request
- 🟩 Laundry day verbs: Dry, fold, sort, wash
- 🟦 Things that come in "books": Check, coupon, match, stamp
- 🟪 Sun ____: Dial, flower, screen, tan
I sprinted through today's puzzle, not because it was easy perse but because it was the way the grid fell to me.
So, after a chore weekend, laundry day was the first thing that I saw with fold, sort, wash and dry.
I did take a strike trying out a poker set with bid, call, check and match but that was a push and I knew it.
Removing match got me thinking of matchbooks, which unlocked the blue set. I was able to grab the checkbook, stampbook and couponbook next.
I returned to my broken poker set next with bid, call, request and appeal.
Which left sundial, sunflower, sunscreen and suntan as my final four.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Salad Ingredients: Ranch dressing, red onion, roasted chicken, romaine lettuce
- 🟩 Classic Films: Rain Man, Rear Window, Reservoir Dogs, Roman Holiday
- 🟦 "The Simpsons" Characters: Radioactive Man, Ralph Wiggum, Reverend Lovejoy, Rod Flanders
- 🟪 Ending in NBA Players: Raging Bull, Regina King, Roe Buck, Rotary Clipper
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,051, which had a difficulty rating of 3 out of 5.
I've watched enough of "The Simpsons" to pick out many of the supporting cast from any Connections grid, so the first group I nabbed was Radioactive Man, Ralph Wiggum, Reverend Lovejoy and Rod Flanders. Interestingly, the blue category has revolved around characters for two days in a row now.
I had a bit of a misfire with the four things that all had an animal in the phrase (which is not a category) next, though this did help me confirm that, yes, I had been right to think one of the connections for today was indeed things that go in a salad after all (roasted chicken, red onion, romaine lettuce and ranch dressing).
I had incorrectly assumed that the obvious movie titles were there to throw me off, so after a little trial and error, I got Classic Films (Rain Man, Rear Window, Reservoir Dogs and Roman Holiday), leaving Raging Bull, Roe Buck, Rotary Clipper and Regina King as the last category of the day: Ending in NBA Players.
