NYT Connections hints and answers, Sunday Apr 13

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Need a hint for today's Connections on Sunday, 13th April? There's no shame in searching for an assist when it comes to Connections, because some of these word categories are darn difficult!

Keep scrolling - we've outlined everything you need to know to solve today's Connections groups one-by-one. If you're more interested in seeing the answer presented plainly, then we've got that listed for you as well.

In this guide:

• How to play Connections
• Connections hint for Sunday 13th 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 Sunday 13th April

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: To take something that doesn't belong to you.
• Green: When you aren't in class or at work, you're...
• Blue: Think of the way letters appear in a word processor.
• Purple: All of these are words that can be used to describe a type of fruit.
• Extra hint 1: Roman doesn't exactly refer to the actual Romans here.
• Extra hint 2: Caper and Goose belong in the same category.

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

• Yellow:Pinch
• Green:Present
• Blue:Sans
• Purple:Elder

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: Steal
• Green: Attendance Status
• Blue: Font-Modifying Words
• Purple: ___Berry

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 Sunday, 13th April:

• Yellow: Steal (Nick, Pinch, Pocket, Swipe)
• Green: Attendance Status (Absent, Excused, Late, Present)
• Blue: Font-Modifying Words (Gothic, Roman, Sans, Typewriter)
• Purple: ___Berry (Caper, Elder, Goose, Logan)

Most of the categories here I got pretty quickly, though the "Typewriter" in the Blue selection of words tripped me up. I suppose I regularly think of "Gothic," "Roman," and "Sans" in relation to fonts, but I don't quite think of "Typewriter" as a font, only as the instrument that preceded computers.

The Purple group also gave me less problems than usual, but I admit that I can't remember the last time I had a caperberry or a loganberry!

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!