Looking for some Connections hints to help with today’s puzzle on Tuesday, 7th April? The day hasn’t really begun until you’ve completed your Connections puzzle! Except for the fact that it has. Time waits for no one, regardless of whether you’ve deciphered your daily grid or not.
If you’ve got places to be and things to do but you can’t quite make those last connections, we’ve got your back! Full answers and subtle hints can be found below, so you can get on with your day while still retaining that streak you worked so hard for.
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:
- AFTER
- ANOTHER
- BATTLE
- CLASH
- CONTEST
- DOWN
- EITHER
- GAME
- IN
- LOW
- MATCH
- NEITHER
- NIGHT
- ONE
- WILD
- WILLING
Connections hint for Tuesday 7th April
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow hint: Head-to-head situations
- Green hint: Ready to go!
- Blue hint: Not very specific.
- Purple hint: A familiar second word ties these together.
- Extra hint 1: Not every group relies on definition.
- Extra hint 2: Every group has at least one word containing the letter ‘N’
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Match
- Green: Game
- Blue: Either
- Purple: Low
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: Competition
- Green: On Board
- Blue: Words For Unspecified Choices
- Purple: ___Life
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 Tuesday, 7th April:
- Yellow: Competition (Battle, Clash, Contest, Match)
- Green: On Board (Down, Game, In, Willing)
- Blue: Words For Unspecified Choices (Another, Either, Neither, One)
- Purple: ___Life (After, Low, Night, Wild)
You made it to the end of yet another Connections puzzle! This one was no walk in the park, either. The green and yellow groups both dealt with participation or engagement of some kind, which blurred the lines for me. I found myself mixing words from those two groups up a lot! ‘Contest’ and ‘game’? You can’t deny they could be in the same group!
Once I stopped being so stubborn and trying to fit squares into circle holes, however, it became a little easier for me. The purple group didn’t even trip me up as much as usual! What a pleasant surprise. That group is usually the hardest one for me.
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!