NYT Connections hints and answers, Friday Apr 25

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 Friday, 25th April? It’s no use staring at the Connections words if you just can’t find the links today - and it’s no fun either. When the going gets tough, grab a few hints from our Connections guide and try again!

Of course, you may not need all of them, but we’ve listed a total of six hints and four sneak peeks to help you. Take as many as necessary!

In this guide:

• How to play Connections
• Connections hint for Friday 25th 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 Friday 25th April

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: You can chew these 'flavours' for quite some time.
• Green: These words are the start.
• Blue: Look for classic songs.
• Purple: Find a word to add behind every group member.
• Extra hint 1: The songs on this list are from the 30s, 40s, and 50s.
• Extra hint 2: 'Fallopian' is a word used for uterine tubes.

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

• Yellow:Wintergreen
• Green:Launchpad
• Blue:Summertime
• Purple:Test

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: Gum Flavors
• Green: Starting Point
• Blue: Great American Songbook Songs
• Purple: ___ Tube

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 Friday, 25th April:

• Yellow: Gum Flavors (Bubblegum, Cinnamon, Menthol, Wintergreen)
• Green: Starting Point (Catalyst, Launchpad, Spark, Springboard)
• Blue: Great American Songbook Songs (Autumn Leaves, Summertime, Unforgettable, Witchcraft)
• Purple: ___ Tube (Fallopian, Inner, Test, Vacuum)

The connections that stood out to me today were 'cinnamon and menthol' and 'summertime and autumn leaves' - unfortunately, I also assumed 'wintergreen' and 'springboard' belonged to the latter theme. Oops, that's one wasted attempt for me.

Right after falling into the NYT's trap, however, I matched 'springboard' with 'launchpad' instead and got the green group from there. I then returned to what I suspected to be a 'candy theme', and added 'bubblegum' into the mix. I've honestly never heard of the 'wintergreen' flavour but since it was the only thing that sounded like a candy flavour, I decided to give it a try and thus completed the yellow theme.

I had a hard time with the remaining blue and purple words though. I only found purple because I was desperate and decided to match everything with a science-y name. Oh well, that's one way to solve a Connections puzzle!

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!