NYT Connections hint (Fri, 24 Apr)

Looking for some Connections hints to help with today's puzzle on Friday, 24th April? Rise and shine! You've woken up for the day, but your brain might be lagging behind a little. What better way to get the cogs moving than with the daily Connections puzzle?

If your cogs have been whirring over one particularly tricky puzzle, we have subtle hints and full answers to get you over that finish line.

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How to play Connections

Connections is one of the most popular (and challenging) daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). The aim of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, where each group of four words has a common theme.

For instance, the words "Hook", "Nana", "Peter", and "Wendy" are all Peter Pan characters. Or to take another example, "Action", "Ballpark", "Go", and "Stick" are all words which commonly come just before the word "Figure". These are the kinds of Connections you'll need to make to solve the puzzle.

Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the various words together - but be wary, because a lot of the time there are deceptive red herring connections placed purely to throw you off! To win the game, you have to find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is revealed automatically.

Each of the four groups in each day's Connections puzzle is also assigned a different colour, which represents how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colours are: Yellow (Easiest), Green (Easy), Blue (Medium), and Purple (Hardest).

Click here to play today's Connections puzzle!

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Connections hint: Today's Connections words

Below you'll find various hints for today's Connections. Each of the below hints will make it progressively easier for you to solve today's puzzle. First we'll reveal the words in today's Connections, followed by our Connections hint for each group. Then we'll reveal one word inside each group, followed by the groups themselves; and finally, at the bottom of this page, we'll reveal the answers to today's Connections puzzle. Here are the 16 Connections words for today:

• TOMATO SAUCE
• HELICOPTER
• SUCTION CUPS
• CALLOWAY
• PEPPERONI
• INTELLIGENCE
• ICE SKATES
• RED WINE
• LAWN MOWER
• ARMS
• CABIN
• CHEESE
• DOUGH
• GRASS
• INK
• TAXI

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Connections hint for Friday 24th April

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow hint: Tasty morsels
• Green hint: Eight-armed traits.
• Blue hint: Look out! They're sharp.
• Purple hint: One word found in multiple places.
• Extra hint 1: One set depends on interpreting a shortened word.
• Extra hint 2: Every group except purple has at least one word containing the letter 'G'

If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:

• Yellow: Pepperoni
• Green: Ink
• Blue: Lawn Mower
• Purple: Calloway

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Spoiler warning! Today's Connections groups are revealed just below!

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Connections hints: All of today's Connections groups

If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today's Connections puzzle, below we'll reveal the four correct Connections groups - the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.

Here are the Connections groups for today:

• Yellow: Pizza Ingredients
• Green: Associated With Octopuses
• Blue: They Have Blades
• Purple: What 'Cab' Might Refer To

Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today's puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.

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Spoiler warning! Today's Connections answer lies ahead!

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Connections answer today

Here is the answer to today's Connections puzzle on Friday, 24th April:

• Yellow: Pizza Ingredients (Cheese, Dough, Pepperoni, Tomato Sauce)
• Green: Associated With Octopuses (Arms, Ink, Intelligence, Suction Cups)
• Blue: They Have Blades (Grass, Helicopter, Ice Skates, Lawn Mower)
• Purple: What 'Cab' Might Refer To (Cabin, Calloway, Red Wine, Taxi)

You made it to the end of another Connections puzzle! And it was a good one, too! The last few Connections puzzles have really given me a run for my money, so it was nice to make some quick connections for a change. Of course, it wasn't all smooth sailing, though. Calloway certainly had me stumped for a while. But, of course, it was referring to Cab Calloway, an American jazz singer most popular during the 30s and 40s.

On a somewhat unrelated note, is anyone else hungry? Good thing I do my Connections in the morning, because the yellow group got my tummy grumbling!

Congratulations if you got today's Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you didn't succeed today, don't worry - a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!