NYT Connections hints and answers, Saturday Apr 26

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, 26th April? If a cumbersome Connections puzzle is turning a once favoured morning activity into a dreadful chore, let us rescue you. Not only shall we guide you to victory, but it’ll be way more fun than staring at sixteen words hoping the solution will come to mind.

Whether you need one or six hints, or one or four spoilers, it’ll surely be enough to claim victory today.

In this guide:

• How to play Connections
• Connections hint for Saturday 26th 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 26th April

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: This theme is about coloration.
• Green: You'll find them between hills or mountains.
• Blue: They share the same first name.
• Purple: This theme is also related to colour, but not quite.
• Extra hint 1: Find the anagrams.
• Extra hint 2: There are many names but there's only one person-based theme; try looking for last names.

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

• Yellow:Hue
• Green:Dell
• Blue:Marley
• Purple:Genre

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: Tint
• Green: Valley
• Blue: Bobs
• Purple: Color Anagrams

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, 26th April:

• Yellow: Tint (Color, Hue, Shade, Tone)
• Green: Valley (Dale, Dell, Glen, Hollow)
• Blue: Bobs (Dole, Hope, Marley, Ross)
• Purple: Color Anagrams (Dre, Gary, Genre, Lube)

I really wanted to group Glen, Gary, Dale, Dre, Ross, Hope, and Marley together, but there can only be four words in one Connections group, so I figured a simple 'first names' theme wasn't the answer here. I decided to set the more obvious names aside for the time being, including Ross, Marley, and Gary. This is when I noticed the first two Bobs (Marley and Ross) but without knowing the other two, I was unable to complete the set.

Shifting focus away from the names, I was able to complete the yellow set and noticed the similarity in meaning between 'glen' and 'dell' shortly after. Despite getting yellow and green out of the way, I struggled immensely with the remaining eight words as I simply didn't notice the colour anagrams.

With Ross and Marley already matched, I decided to add two last names and take the gamble. Thinking it safe to assume nobody is unfortunate enough to be called 'Bob Lube', I settled for Hope and Dole, which turned out to be correct. Sometimes knowing the theme without knowing the corresponding members is still enough to complete a 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!