Spoilers for NYT Connections #677, dated April 18, 2025. The four groups are Interjections; Horror Movies, With “The”; Things You Can Pick; and Personal Property Minus “S.” The full tile sets and the reasoning behind each are below.
All 16 Connections answers for April 18, 2025
This is puzzle #677. The solution divides every tile into one of these four groups:
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| Color | Category | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Yellow | Interjections | BOY, GOODNESS, MAN, WOW |
| Green | Horror Movies, With “The” | BIRDS, EXORCIST, HAUNTING, SHINING |
| Blue | Things You Can Pick | APPLE, BANJO, CARD, NOSE |
| Purple | Personal Property Minus “S” | BELONGING, EFFECT, GOOD, POSSESSION |
Why each group fits
Yellow: interjections
Each word can be an exclamation: “Oh, boy!”, “Goodness!”, “Man!” or “Wow!”
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Add “The” in front of each word to form the film titles The Birds, The Exorcist, The Haunting and The Shining. TechRadar writer Johnny Dee recalled, “Seeing SHINING, EXORCIST, and BIRDS was the easy part.” Dee also noted that HAUNTING was a guess; BELONGING and POSSESSION can look plausible as movie-title decoys, but they belong to the property group instead. TechRadar’s April 18 answer guide describes Dee’s personal solving experience.
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Blue: things you can pick
The words follow “pick” in different usages: pick an apple, pick a card, pick your nose, or pick a banjo. The banjo connection is musical—“pick” means to pluck or play its strings—rather than selecting the instrument.
Purple: personal property minus “S”
Add an “s” to each tile to get belongings, effects, goods and possessions. The category label describes the words as personal-property terms with the final “s” removed.
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How to approach the puzzle
Connections asks you to sort 16 tiles into four groups of four based on a shared link. In this set, familiar phrases and titles create overlapping possibilities: the strongest early clue is that BIRDS, EXORCIST and SHINING can each follow “The,” while the purple words need an added “s” to make property terms. If you are still solving, consider whether a word fits a literal phrase, an idiom, or a title before committing it to a group.
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Clear out junk files and repair common Windows errorsFree Scan →Scan for outdated or missing drivers - takes under a minuteDriver Scan →The April 18, 2025 date and #677 identifier are useful because the calendar date alone does not distinguish this puzzle from one published in another year. Try Hard Guides also lists the same date, number and four groupings in its April 18, 2025 answer guide; WordHint independently gives the same #677 solution.
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