Looking for some Connections hints to help with today’s puzzle on Friday, 3rd April? It’s a brand new day and you know what that means! The NYT is back to test your knowledge, puzzle solving skills, and vocabulary with their Connections puzzle.
And we know all too well that the NYT takes no prisoners. If you’re struggling with their tricky puzzle today, we’re ready and waiting to save you and your streak!
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!
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:
- HURRICANE
- COLLINS
- CRUISE
- DAMAGE
- GROUND
- JONES
- LONG
- LUST
- MEAN
- MISSION
- PETTY
- ROCKS
- SMALL
- SNIDE
- THIRST
- ZOMBIE
Connections hint for Friday 3rd April
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow hint: Characteristics of the Plastics.
- Green hint: A strong craving.
- Blue hint: Bar vessels.
- Purple hint: These words are missing something.
- Extra hint 1: Some words are only one half of a whole.
- Extra hint 2: Every group has at least one word containing the letter ‘S’
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Small
- Green: Jones
- Blue: Collins
- Purple: Ground
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!
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: Catty
- Green: Hanker (For)
- Blue: Cocktail Glasses
- Purple: ___ Control
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.
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections answer lies ahead!
Connections answer today
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Friday, 3rd April:
- Yellow: Catty (Mean, Petty, Small, Snide)
- Green: Hanker (For) (Jones, Long, Lust, Thirst)
- Blue: Cocktail Glasses (Collins, Hurricane, Rocks, Zombie)
- Purple: ___ Control (Cruise, Damage, Ground, Mission)
Consider your Connections puzzle for the day solved! It was a tricky one, too. A couple of the groups gave me trouble today, but the main culprits were Jones and Collins. Those two sounded like characters who were wandering the halls and accidentally ended up in the wrong classrooom. But it turns out someone did invite Jones and Collins, after all! Now to find out what kind of drink a Zombie glass is for… It sounds dangerous.
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!