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Need help with NYT Connections puzzle #668, dated Wednesday, April 9, 2025? Start with these spoiler-safe hints, then continue to the clearly marked answer key when you’re ready.
Connections #668 hints for April 9
- One group consists of round, three-dimensional objects.
- Think of a word that can mean a hit.
- Recall ingredients named in the witches’ brew in Shakespeare’s “Scottish play.”
- For the remaining words, put the name of a sly four-legged animal before each one.
Spoiler warning: Connections #668 answers
The categories and word groups below reveal the full solution.
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Yellow: Round three-dimensional objects
BALL, GLOBE, ORB, SPHERE
Green: Punch
POP, POUND, SLUG, SOCK
Each word can be used as a noun or verb associated with hitting or punching.
Blue: Animals in the witches’ brew in “Macbeth”
BAT, DOG, FROG, NEWT
Purple: FOX___
GLOVE, HOLE, HOUND, TROT
Add FOX to each word to make FOXGLOVE, FOXHOLE, FOXHOUND and FOXTROT.
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Why the groups can be tricky
BAT, BALL, GLOVE and SOCK may look like baseball equipment, but that is a decoy: BAT belongs with DOG, FROG and NEWT, while the other words fit separate groups. The purple category is also a phrase-completion trick rather than a conventional semantic category: each answer becomes a familiar word when FOX is placed before it.
Independent reader supportYour contribution helps us test, update, and keep practical guides available for everyone.How Connections works
The New York Times Help Center explains: “Players are given 16 words and must find groups of four items that share something in common.” The four groups are color-coded yellow, green, blue and purple; the Times describes yellow as easiest and purple as trickiest. Categories are curated by editors using the Oxford Dictionary, and apparent overlap between words is intentional. The New York Times Connections Help Center.
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