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Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for April 25 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
- Haystack
- Pitchfork
- Copper
- Ocean
- Cast Iron
- Enamel
- Hurly-Burly
- Nail
- Dick
- Chuck E. Cheese
- Hair
- Crowd
- Gumshoe
- Skin
- Million
- Flatfoot
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: Body coverings
- 🟩 Green: Masses, in idioms
- 🟦 Blue: Old timey slang for law enforcement
- 🟪 Purple: Starting with synonyms for "throw"
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 24 for puzzle #1,048 are a tad harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at just 2.3 out of 5.
- 🟨 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
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.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Pizza ingredients: Cheese, dough, pepperoni, tomato sauce
- 🟩 Associated with octopuses: Arms, ink, intelligence, suction cups
- 🟦 They have blades: Grass, helicopter, ice skates, lawn mower
- 🟪 What "cab" might refer to: Cabin, calloway, red wine, tax
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1048, which had a difficulty rating of 2 out of 5.
I went reverse rainbow today. Here's how I got there.
Calloway stuck out to me as Cab right away. Red wine gave the set away and then I hunted for taxi and cabin.
I wasn't sure between blades and octopuses but decided on blades for my next set. So grass, helicopter, ice skates and lawn mower filled it out.
Arms, ink, intelligence and suction cups popped out next.
And we wrapped it up with pizza in cheese, dough, pepperoni and tomato sauce.
