NYT Connections hints and answers, Thursday Apr 24

This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today's? Check out the Connections hint for Tuesday 29th April!

Need a hint for today's Connections on Thursday, 24th April? Connections riddles are ridiculously difficult sometimes, but don’t admit defeat before you’ve seen our hints and sneak peeks - you may arrive at the finish line yet!

We’ve divided our hints by theme and type, so if you’re only missing the blue and purple groups, you will find hints and spoilers for those two groups specifically. Let’s tackle this puzzle together!

In this guide:

• How to play Connections
• Connections hint for Thursday 24th 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 Thursday 24th April

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: They share the same colour.
• Green: Find the lettuce.
• Blue: This is a rather villainous theme.
• Purple: Things with ears... as a matter of speaking.
• Extra hint 1: The purple theme uses idiomatic language.
• Extra hint 2: If you're struggling, try matching the plurals.

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

• Yellow:Polar bear
• Green:Leaf
• Blue:Joker
• Purple:Cornfield

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: Things That Are White
• Green: Kinds Of Lettuce
• Blue: “Batman” Villains
• Purple: They Have Literal/Idiomatic Ears

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 Thursday, 24th April:

• Yellow: Things That Are White (Baby Powder, Milk, Polar Bear, Snow)
• Green: Kinds Of Lettuce (Butter, Iceberg, Leaf, Romaine)
• Blue: “Batman” Villains (Bane, Joker, Penguin, Scarecrow)
• Purple: They Have Literal/Idiomatic Ears (Cornfield, Musicians, Pitchers, Walls)

It's fascinating how such an obvious colour-based connection as today's yellow theme completely eluded me at first. I made a few early potential links today, including 'snow and iceberg' and 'penguin and polar bear' and even considered entering all four of them as a complete theme, but decided to set it aside and have another look first.

A wise decision, as it turned out, for I found the Batman villains theme next, which excluded 'penguin' from my 'things you'll find at the north or south pole' group. I matched 'baby powder' with 'milk' next, and finally realised that there was a 'white things' connection there.

It wasn't too hard to find the lettuce after that, but I would've struggled with that one if I wasn't down to eight words already. Lettuce certainly isn't the first thing I think about when I see the word 'butter', and I wouldn't blame you if you didn't make that connection either.

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!