NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, April 12 (game #671)

Date:
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 14:00:00 +0000

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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each
day for your time zone which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Friday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers
for Friday, April 11 (game #670) .

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Connections today (game #671) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are SIN SEC SUN TAN FLASH BOTS FALL CAME BIT BUCK KEN STRAY NET JIFF ERR SPUR NYT Connections today (game #671) - hint #1
- group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Brief moments GREEN: Fail BLUE: Ballers PURPLE: Add letters to make countries

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles NYT
Connections today (game #671) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: SHORT PERIOD OF TIME GREEN: DO WRONG BLUE: N.B.A. PLAYER PURPLE: STARTS OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #671) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #671, are 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 My rating: Moderate My score: 1 mistake

I immediately guessed that we were looking for words that meant fractions of something, but I didnt realise time was the common thread.

That led me to make a mistake looking for a group of things that were
slightly off-target, with STRAY instead of JIFF giving me "one away". Then I remembered my grandmother always saying shed be down in a jiff when she was getting ready to go out.

Another phrase, ERR on the side of caution, delayed me getting DO WRONG but with FALL, SIN and STRAY locked in, it was the only other option. As well as being cautious, err also means doing something wrong.

Despite limited US sports knowledge I got the singular NBA PLAYER words
easily enough. A good thing, as STARTS OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES was far from my thoughts when I looked at the words remaining.

At a push Id have guessed BOTS, CAME, KEN and TAN were presenters of a
YouTube prank show with 800 subscribers or the IATA codes for Australian airports, but never the start of Botswana, Cameroon, Kenya, and Tanzania.

How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Friday, 11 April, game #670) YELLOW: SOURCES OF VITAMINS CITRUS, LEAFY GREENS, SUNSHINE, SUPPLEMENTS GREEN: PLACES USED IN RETAIL SUFFIXES CITY, LAND, TOWN, WORLD BLUE: PLACES TO FIND STARS AMERICAN FLAG, GALAXY, RED CARPET, UBER RATING PURPLE: WORDS AFTER "GO" ALL OUT, BETWEEN, KART, STEADY What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green
is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as
you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there
are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.



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