NYT Connections hints and answers, Wednesday Apr 2

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Need a hint for today's Connections on Wednesday, 2nd April? Another day brings another tricky selection of Connections to solve. Figuring out the links between these nefarious bands of words can be a real head-scratcher, and if you're not up-to-date with your pop culture or Americanisms, you might find yourself out of luck.

We're coming to the rescue with this guide. Below, we've listed all of our tips for solving today's Connections. Whether you're searching for a gentle hint or the full-on answer, we're here to help.

In this guide:

• How to play Connections
• Connections hint for Wednesday 2nd April
• What are today's Connections groups?
• What are today's Connections answers?

Here are the 16 Connections words for today:

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 Wednesday 2nd April

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: Kind of like an instinct.
• Green: Another word for category or set.
• Blue: They all have the same surname.
• Purple: These words are said a little differently in certain contexts - for instance, as names.
• Extra hint 1: Hank and Robin belong in the same group.
• Extra hint 2: Job and Nice belong in the same group.

If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:

• Yellow:Lark
• Green:Sort
• Blue:Venus
• Purple:Reading

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: Caprice
• Green: Ilk
• Blue: Williamses
• Purple: Words Pronounced Differently As Proper Nouns

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 Wednesday, 2nd April:

• Yellow: Caprice (Fancy, Impulse, Lark, Whim)
• Green: Ilk (Kind, Like, Sort, Type)
• Blue: Williamses (Hank, Robin, Tennessee, Venus)
• Purple: Words Pronounced Differently As Proper Nouns (Herb, Job, Nice, Reading)

I found the last two categories of this puzzle very difficult. The Yellow and Green words gave me no trouble - it was easy enough to pair 'Fancy' and 'Whim' together, and 'Sort' and 'Type' tipped me off for the Green group with no problems.

I'm not up to date on my Williamses, though. Robin and Venus Williams I know, but I missed the last showing of 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' at my local theatre a while back, so Tennessee Williams was not someone on my mind at all. I'm also not a Country fan, so Hank Williams was also a mystery to me.

And then we have the Purple group. 'Nice' and 'Reading' I eventually figured out, but 'Herb' and 'Job' just didn't click in my brain no matter what. This is one of those Connections groupings that plays with your mind and is definitely above average in difficulty.

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!