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These are the hints and answers for the NYT Connections puzzle dated Saturday, April 27, 2024. The date refers to the 2024 edition: April 27 fell on a Sunday in 2025 and a Monday in 2026. Read the hint ladder first, then stop at the spoiler warnings if you want to solve the puzzle yourself.
Hints for Connections on April 27
Try these progressively more specific hints before looking at the category names or answers:
- Yellow: be convinced by.
- Green: electrical problems.
- Blue: the abridged version.
- Purple: they sound like forms of address.
Category labels — spoilers ahead
Spoiler warning: The labels below reveal the four themes.
- Yellow: trust as real
- Green: power issues
- Blue: summary
- Purple: name homophones
Connections answers — full spoilers
Full-answer spoiler warning: The four solved groups and all 16 tiles follow.
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- Yellow — trust as real: ACCEPT, BELIEVE, BUY, SWALLOW
- Green — power issues: OUTAGE, SHORT, SPIKE, SURGE
- Blue — summary: ABSTRACT, BRIEF, DIGEST, OUTLINE
- Purple — name homophones: CURT, HAIRY, KNEEL, WANE
Why the groupings can be tricky
DIGEST can suggest more than one idea: it belongs in the summary group here, even though its other meanings may tempt a different placement. The purple set depends on hearing names in the words: CURT/Kurt, HAIRY/Harry, KNEEL/Neil, and WANE/Wayne. Those sound-alikes make the theme easier to spot once you look for names rather than literal meanings.
How Connections works and where to play
Connections presents 16 words and asks players to sort them into four groups of four. The New York Times Help Center describes the puzzle as having one solution; words that could plausibly fit multiple categories are part of what makes it challenging. Groups are color-coded from yellow, the easiest, through purple, the trickiest. NYT says its editors curate words and categories using the Oxford Dictionary. Read the NYT Connections Help Center for the game details.
NYT lists Connections in its Games app, at nytimes.com/games/connections, on nytimes.com/theathletic, and in the News app. The daily puzzle releases at midnight in the player’s timezone, according to the Help Center.
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The NYT Help Center says the Connections archive reaches back to June 12, 2023, with archive access for All Access and Games subscribers. Archived plays affect some statistics but do not count toward a player’s current or maximum streak. Subscription terms can change, so check the Help Center for current access details.
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