NYT Connections hints and answers, Saturday Apr 19

This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today's? Check out the Connections hint for Sunday 27th April!

Need a hint for today's Connections on Saturday, 19th April? Connections puzzles are hard. Having a decent vocabulary is helpful but often not enough; you also need a vast general knowledge and a good sense of logic. Oh, and let’s not forget the final but perhaps most important factor that determines your chances of victory: luck.

Sometimes a Connections theme is right up your alley, and sometimes it’s not. In case of the latter, let this guide help you out.

In this guide:

• How to play Connections
• Connections hint for Saturday 19th 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 Saturday 19th April

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: These words are related to public speaking.
• Green: See any words to describe an arid landscape?
• Blue: Find the different types of four-legged furry friends.
• Purple: It's about the numbers.
• Extra hint 1: None of the themes contains two or more words starting with the same letter.
• Extra hint 2: Think of James Bond's other 'name'.

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

• Yellow:Speech
• Green:Hot
• Blue:Chow
• Purple:Intro Class

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: Spoken Presentation
• Green: Adjectives For A Desert
• Blue: Dog Breeds, Informally
• Purple: Represented By Three-Digit Numbers

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 Saturday, 19th April:

• Yellow: Spoken Presentation (Address, Lecture, Speech, Talk)
• Green: Adjectives For A Desert (Dry, Hot, Sandy, Vast)
• Blue: Dog Breeds, Informally (Bully, Chow, Golden, Lab)
• Purple: Represented By Three-Digit Numbers (Cannabis, Devil, Intro Class, James Bond)

Today's Connections was a bit easier than usual for me, despite being somewhat unfamiliar with dog breeds. My brain was just quick to point out 'dry' and 'sandy', which felt worthy of investigating. It seemed a good match together with 'hot', but it took a bit of time to realise it was probably referring to a landscape, and a desert in particular, after which it made sense to add 'vast'.

Meanwhile I was also matching 'lecture' with 'speech' and adding in the rest of the yellow theme. That left me with one 'knowledge' group and one 'hidden words' group, and since I lacked the specific knowledge rquired for the first, I focused on the hiden words instead. More specifically, I was set on finding the logic behind 'James Bond' being there - I searched for action heroes, movie themes, anything spy related... Until I finally thought of 007 and realised the 666 and 420 had been staring me in the face all this time.

Safe to say it took more than 000 minutes to solve this Connections puzzle, but it wasn't the hardest I've faced of late.

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!