Today's NYT Connections hints and answers, Wednesday Apr 30

Need a hint for today's Connections on Wednesday, 30th April? If you need some help with your Connections puzzle today, this guide will give you everything you need. One hint, six hints, a few spoilers, or the names of each word group; take whatever you need to find the solution.

And with that, there's no need to stare yourself silly at the sixteen-word mixture any longer. Your next Connections victory is closer than you think!

In this guide:

• How to play Connections
• Connections hint for Wednesday 30th 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 Wednesday 30th April

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: Look for footwear components.
• Green: When you throw a party or organise a meeting, you'll have to take this into account.
• Blue: What do others think of you?
• Purple: It's about the ending.
• Extra hint 1: The purple group is about unpleasant and hidden things.
• Extra hint 2: Only the green theme contains two words starting with the same letter.

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

• Yellow:Sole
• Green:Room
• Blue:Image
• Purple:Mildew

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: Parts Of A Shoe
• Green: Accommodation
• Blue: Reputation
• Purple: Ending With Synonyms For “Yuck”

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 Wednesday, 30th April:

• Yellow: Parts Of A Shoe (Heel, Sole, Tongue, Upper)
• Green: Accommodation (Capacity, Chairs, Room, Seating)
• Blue: Reputation (Face, Image, Regard, Standing)
• Purple: Ending With Synonyms For “Yuck” (Dynasty, Engross, Gimmick, Mildew)

I always try to remind myself to look for short words hidden within longer words, as this is fairly common in the purple theme, and yet I often miss them. Perhaps I would've found the 'yucky endings' today if it wasn't for the other themes being fairly simple - lucky me!

The green theme required some secondary associations, but once I connected them in pairs ('room and capacity' and 'chairs and seating') it wasn't hard to complete the full set. The blue theme felt very similar as it also contains four words used to describe the same thing, but surprisingly enough, yellow proved the toughest of the three.

'Heel' and 'sole' make sense, but if you're stuck thinking about feet rather than shoes, you may find it hard to add the other two words - I know I did. With only purple and yellow words left it wasn't impossible, but as today's puzzle proves, the yellow theme isn't always a walk in the park.

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!