Thankfully, the NYT Connections puzzle for April 12 was kind to me. However, if you find yourself out of luck, then keep reading. So with that, let’s begin breaking down all the hints, categories and answers for the NYT Connections puzzle for April 12.
Hint for Today’s Connections Themes
Let’s begin with some quick hints for today’s Connections themes. Check them out and see if you can guess any.
- Yellow Category – Do you like things neat?
- Green Category – Words used to add emphasis
- Blue Category – Things have a way of snowballing
- Purple Category – We all miss our childhood games
We wish we could go into more detail here, but these hints are the best we can share. They are all related to the categories for the puzzle, so think hard before you scroll down below to see the exact category names. We also think you don’t need an additional hint for today. However, if you still can’t find them and need more help, maybe these tricks to solve NYT Connections will help.
Spoiler Warning #1 While this section included hints for the categories, the next section names them directly. Only proceed if ready.
Today’s Connections Category Names
If you still can’t figure out the NYT Connections category names, then keep reading for more help.
- Yellow – ORDERLY
- Green – AUGMENTATIVE PREFIXES
- Blue – BECOME LARGER
- Purple – ITEMS IN CLASSIC KIDS’ GAMES
We hope you can guess the words under each category now. However, If you still cannot and need more help, keep reading.
Spoiler Warning #2 The next section includes the answer for today’s puzzle; you will see all the answers in their categories. This is your last chance to solve it yourself.
Connections Answer for April 12
Are you still stuck with the puzzle? In that case, the answers to today’s Connections are:
- ORDERLY – Clean, Neat, Tidy, Trim
- AUGMENTATIVE PREFIXES – Hyper, Super, Uber, Ultra
- BECOME LARGER – Balloon, Mushroom, Snowball, Swell
- ITEMS IN CLASSIC KIDS’ GAMES – Domino, Jack, Marble, Stick
Would you look at that? I had the best of luck with the NYT Connections puzzle today. I luckily began my journey by getting the Blue category the first. To be fair to NYT, I do think the words were a bit easy compared to the section.
I then moved on to the Green category and got that in a hurry, too. It was actually Super easy once I combined Uber and Ultra together. The easiest Yellow category came next its modest word selection.
Lastly, there were only four words left. I got them all together, along with the Purple category and the NYT Connections puzzle for April 12.
NYT Connections Past Answers
We hope the answers above helped you solve the NYT Connections puzzle for today. However, if you stumbled here by accident, there’s a chance you might be looking for answers to previous puzzles.
Well, for such times and more, we have you covered. Feel free to go through our directory to NYT Connections for the last three days for all the help you need.
What about you? How was your experience with today’s puzzle? Where did you get stuck if you did? Let us know in the comments below.
