NYT Connections hints and answers, Tuesday Apr 15

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Need a hint for today's Connections on Tuesday, 15th April? If you need some pointers to tackle today’s Connections puzzle, this guide will help you out. Hints, tips, or sneak peeks; we’ve got them all and more.

The NYT Connections puzzle isn’t the kind of puzzle you can speedrun within a minute as they usually require a lot of thought. Using a few hints is not just fine - it’s almost a requirement!

In this guide:

• How to play Connections
• Connections hint for Tuesday 15th 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 Tuesday 15th April

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: When you don't do something...
• Green: You'll need cards for these.
• Blue: As seen in an ancient theater.
• Purple: They're characters from a Disney movie, but not whole.
• Extra hint 1: Every group except purple contains two words starting with the same letter.
• Extra hint 2: 'Refrain' and 'chorus' are in different groups.

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

• Yellow:Cease
• Green:Speed
• Blue:Chorus
• Purple:Pan

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: Desist
• Green: Card Games
• Blue: Elements Of Greek Drama
• Purple: Second Words Of “Peter Pan” Characters

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, 15th April:

• Yellow: Desist (Abstain, Avoid, Cease, Refrain)
• Green: Card Games (Bridge, Hearts, Speed, Spoons)
• Blue: Elements Of Greek Drama (Chorus, Hero, Hubris, Tragedy)
• Purple: Second Words Of “Peter Pan” Characters (Bell, Darling, Hook, Pan)

The first connection I noticed today was 'abstain' and 'refrain' - they're just far too similar to miss. It was fairly easy to complete the yellow theme after that. Just find four words with the same meaning, no mental acrobatics required.

I got fixated on 'chorus' and 'tragedy' next as I suspected a theater-related group, but it took me a while to add 'hero' and especially 'hubris' - I wouldn't have taken hubris as an essential part of Greek tragedy, but it was the only thing that seemed somehow related. I briefly considered 'bell' (thinking it may have been used to open or close different acts) but then I spotted 'Pan' and 'Hook'. Luckily Peter Pan was one of my childhood favourites, so the purple theme was quickly finalised after that.

Imagine if I hadn't known Peter Pan that well - I would've certainly gotten stuck on the green and purple themes. Luckily, the only thing I lacked today was knowledge of card games, which ultimately didn't matter.

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!