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Need help with NYT Connections puzzle #671 for Saturday, April 12, 2025? Start with the spoiler-light hints below, then reveal the category names and answer words only when you’re ready.
Hints for Connections #671
These clues describe each group without giving away its category name or words. They are ordered from the easiest group to the trickiest.
- A very brief stretch of time.
- To make a mistake or act wrongly.
- Professional basketball players—or names associated with NBA teams.
- The beginnings of four African country names.
Category names
Stop here if you want to solve the grid using the category labels without seeing the words.
- Yellow: SHORT PERIOD OF TIME
- Green: DO WRONG
- Blue: N.B.A. PLAYER
- Purple: STARTS OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES
Answers for April 12
Spoilers below: these are the complete four-word groups for puzzle #671.
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- Yellow — SHORT PERIOD OF TIME: BIT, FLASH, JIFF, SEC
- Green — DO WRONG: ERR, FALL, SIN, STRAY
- Blue — N.B.A. PLAYER: BUCK, NET, SPUR, SUN
- Purple — STARTS OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES: BOTS, CAME, KEN, TAN
Why the purple group works
Each purple entry begins a country name: BOTS becomes Botswana, CAME becomes Cameroon, KEN becomes Kenya, and TAN becomes Tanzania. The green group uses verbs meaning to do wrong: to err, fall, sin, or stray.
How Connections works
The New York Times Help Center describes Connections as a game in which players sort 16 words into four groups of four. The groups are color-coded by difficulty, from Yellow (easiest) to Purple (trickiest), and some words can appear to fit more than one category. The daily puzzle becomes available at midnight in the player’s timezone. NYT Help Center: Connections
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Can you replay puzzle #671?
The NYT Help Center says the Connections archive goes back to June 12, 2023, and is available to All Access and Games subscribers. That archive is the route to replaying this historical puzzle; access depends on the subscription required by the Times.
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