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Today's puzzle is on is tricky with a comic book trap that could keep you from a celebratory soda.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for April 18 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
- Marvel
- DC
- Crushworthy
- Power
- Fantagraphics
- Dark Horse
- Voltage
- Wonder
- Sleeper
- Frescade
- Stare
- Long Shot
- Pepsinogen
- Underdog
- Goggle
- AC
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: Look at with awe
- 🟩 Green: Basic electricity terms
- 🟦 Blue: Unexpected winner
- 🟪 Purple: Starting with soda brands
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 18 for puzzle #1,042 are the same difficulty as yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.5 out of 5.
- 🟨 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
There's an obvious trap in today's puzzle with the comic book companies Marvel, DC, Fantagraphics and Dark Horse. Which 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.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Vegetable parts: Bulb, leaf, root, stem
- 🟩 Prevailing: Common, dominant, general, popular
- 🟦 Parts of a piano: Hammer, key, pedal, string
- 🟪 Second halves of drink names: Soda, stormy, tan, tonic
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1041, which had a difficulty rating of 2.5 out of 5.
I rolled the dice with the purple set today because I wasn't sure I figured, why not. I spotted stormy and tan and immediately thought of the alcoholic drinks. Tonic sealed it for me and then it was just hunting for soda, but again, I wasn't 100%.
I took the yellow plant bits next with bulb, leaf, root and stem.
Admittedly, I never connected the piano parts so I took common, dominant, general and popular next because I saw the set.
Which left hammer, key, pedal and string as my final four.
