If you are looking for Connections Wednesday, April 10, 2024 answers, keep reading — I will share some clues, tips, strategies, and finally solutions for all four categories. Along the way I'll explain the meanings of the trickier words and we'll see how everything fits together. Please note, there are spoilers below for the April 10 issue of NYT Connections #304! If you want some tips (and answers) for today's game of Wired, keep reading.
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Below, I'll give you some indirect hints on today's connection answers. Further down the page I will reveal the topics and answers. Scroll slowly and get the tips you need!
Topic prompt for today’s connect puzzle
Here are some grouping tips from today’s Wired (no spoilers):
Yellow Category - Big Cheese.
Green Category - You can have a picnic or play golf there.
Blue Category - This category is a little crazy.
Purple Category - Some movie titles.
PLEASE NOTE: Today's Connect Puzzle contains spoilers!
We're about to give you some answers. If you don't want to spoil the whole thing, scroll slowly. (Full solution a little below.)
A note on the tricky bits
Today we have a category that is actually supposed to be purple fill-in-the-blank, but you can tell they wanted it to be blue, so they worded the category title differently. However, that doesn't matter until you solve the problem. Think in fill-in-the-blank terms and you'll find it. (It has a food theme.)
In contrast, Purple is a tricky question that requires you to know the title of a specific director's movie. That is, the word "director" belongs to a different category today.
Today's chairs are no longer furniture. The head and chest are not body parts. Brown, green, and hazel are not eye colors—in fact, their meaning today has nothing to do with color at all. (You can defend "green," so I'll just say "green" means golf course.)
What are the categories of connectivity today?
Yellow: person in charge
Green: grass area
Blue: word before "NUT"
Purple: The Second Word in a Tarantino Film
Be extra careful: here’s the solution
Ready to get the answers to today’s connectivity dilemmas? I've given them all below.
What's the yellow word in today's connection?
The yellow grouping is considered the most straightforward. The theme of the yellow group today is the person in charge, and the words are: chairman, chief, director, person in charge.
What's the green word in Connections today?
The green grouping should be the second easiest. Today’s theme for the green category is grass areas, and the words are: FIELD, GREENS, GROUNDS, LAWN.
What's the blue word in today's Wired?
The blue group is the second hardest. Today's theme in the blue category is the words before "nuts", the words are: CHEST, COCO, HAZEL, PEA.
What is the purple word in today's connection?
The purple group is considered the hardest. Today's theme in the Purple category is the second word from a Tarantino film, and the words are: brown, dog, novel, untethered.
How I solved my connection issues today
What else does COCO do besides movies? It can refer to coconut, but we don’t usually use that part of the word on its own – oh oh oh. Cocoa nuts, chestnut nuts, hazelnut nuts, pea nuts. I just stumbled upon that. ?
GREEN, LAWN, GROUNDS, and Field are all ways of describing large areas of grass. ? CHAIR, CHIEF, HEAD and DIRECTOR are all people who are responsible for something. ?
What do the rest have in common? As I pondered fill-in-the-blank possibilities in my mind, I thought of Reservoir Dogs. And "Pulp Fiction." Could the others be Tarantino movies too? Sure: Django Unchained and Jackie Brown. ?
Connecting Puzzle #304 ????????????????
How to play connect
I have a complete guide to playing Connections , but here's a recap of the rules:
First, find the Connections game on the New York Times website or their game app (formerly known as the Crossword Puzzle app). You will see a game board with 16 tiles, each with a word or phrase. Your task is to select a set of four tiles that have something in common. Usually they are the same type of thing (for example: RAIN, SLEET, HAIL, and SNOW are all types of wet weather), but sometimes a play on words is involved (for example, BUCKET, GUEST, TOP TEN, and WISH are all types) List : Last Wish lists, guest lists, etc.).
Select four projects and click the Submit button. If you guessed correctly, the category and color will be displayed. (Yellow is easiest, followed by green, then blue, then purple.) If your guess is incorrect, you'll be given a chance to try again.
You win when you correctly identify all four groups. But if you make four mistakes before finishing, the game will be over and the answer will be revealed.
How to win connections
The most important thing to know when it comes to winning connections is that grouping design is tricky. Expect to see overlapping groups. For example, one puzzle appeared to include six breakfast items: bacon, eggs, pancakes, omelets, waffles and cereal. But it turns out that BACON belongs to the same group of painters as CLOSE, MUNCH, and WHISTLER, while EGG belongs to a dozen groups of painters (along with JUROR, ROSE, and MONTH). So don’t hit “submit” until you’ve confirmed that your foursome only contains these four things.
If you're stuck, another strategy is to look at words that don't seem to be connected to other words. If when you see "Whistler" all that comes to mind is the painting nicknamed "Whistler's Mother," then you probably get the idea. When I was figuring this out, I ended up searching on Google to see if there was a painter named Close, since Close didn't fit any obvious themes either.
Obviously, another way to win when you're stuck is to read some helpful tips - which is why we share them every day. Check back tomorrow for the next puzzle!
