Need a hint for today’s Connections on Tuesday, 29th April? If today’s word groups have thus far remained a mystery, perhaps it’s time to get help. Sometimes a single hint is enough for your brain to make that missing connection – and it sure feels good when that happens.
Ready to give it another shot? Let’s see if this list of Connections hints can guide you to the answer.
In this guide:
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
Ladder Batter Suit Candlestick Infield Rope Paste Pitcher Gemstone Mountain Plate Mixture Tree Dough Rhombus Placemat How to play Connections
Connections is one of the most popular (and challenging) daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). The aim of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, where each group of four words has a common theme.
For instance, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter”, and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or to take another example, “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go”, and “Stick” are all words which commonly come just before the word “Figure”.
Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the various words together – but be wary, because a lot of the time there are deceptive red herring connections placed purely to throw you off! To win the game, you have to find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is revealed automatically.
Each of the four groups in each day’s Connections puzzle is also assigned a different colour, which represents how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colours are: Yellow (Easiest), Green (Easy), Blue (Medium), and Purple (Hardest).
Click here to play today’s Connections puzzle!
Connections hint for Tuesday 29th April
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: This theme is edible.
- Green: As seen at dinnertime.
- Blue: You could be at their bottom or top.
- Purple: Think of a precious stone.
- Extra hint 1: Regarding the purple theme, focus on shape.
- Extra hint 2: Only the green theme contains more than one word starting with the same letter.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Mixture
- Green: Pitcher
- Blue: Mountain
- Purple: Gemstone
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!
What are today’s Connections groups?
If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four correct Connections groups – the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.
Here are the Connections groups for today:
- Yellow: Cooking Concoctions
- Green: Seen On A Table At A Dinner Party
- Blue: Things To Climb
- Purple: What “Diamond” Can Refer To
Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections answer lies ahead!
What is today’s Connections answer?
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Tuesday, 29th April:
- Yellow: Cooking Concoctions (Batter, Dough, Mixture, Paste)
- Green: Seen On A Table At A Dinner Party (Candlestick, Pitcher, Placemat, Plate)
- Blue: Things To Climb (Ladder, Mountain, Rope, Tree)
- Purple: What “Diamond” Can Refer To (Gemstone, Infield, Rhombus, Suit)
If diamonds aren’t your best friend, you may have had some trouble with today’s purple theme. I, for one, didn’t make the association with diamonds at all – not even close. It probably didn’t help that I’m not well-versed in suits and sports fields.
Luckily, the other themes were quite easy for me. ‘Batter’ and ‘dough’ are practically the same thing, so no trouble there. And although I didn’t think of a dinner party per se when connecting the green group, I could solve it by simply associating the group members with ‘tableware’.
Often when the purple group is very hard I also struggle a bit with blue, but I’d say today’s blue theme was even easier than green. I noticed ‘ladder’ and ‘rope’ as a potential connection first (I was thinking of ‘tools used to reach a high place’) and the tree and mountain followed shortly after. If you actually solved that tricky purple theme though, I’m very impressed!
Congratulations if you got today’s Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you didn’t succeed today, don’t worry – a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!
