Today's NYT Connections hints and answers (April 12, 2025): All puzzle answers

Modified Apr 12, 2025 00:51 IST

Today's NYT Connections hints and answers can help you save your winning streak. With each puzzle, the New York Times challenges the community to categorize 16 words into four groups, each connected by a theme. However, it is hard to figure out the sets of words within four chances, especially when you don't even know the names of these categories.

Therefore, this article brings four hints to help readers decipher the names of the categories. You can also cross-check your guesses with the answers in the segment of this article.

Hints for today's NYT Connections (April 12, 2025)

Below are the NYT Connections puzzle hints for April 12, 2025:

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All words for NYT Connections today (Image via The New York Times)

Connections	Hints
Yellow category	These words are related to time.
Green category	These words are related to doing something bad.
Blue category	These words are popular in American basketball.
Purple category	These words are related to countries from a particular continent.

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Answers for today's NYT Connections puzzle

The table below has the answers for NYT Connections today:

All NYT Connections answers for today (Image via The New York Times)

Categories	Answers
Yellow category	These words refer to a Short Period of Time. The words are Bit, Flash, Sec, and Jiff.
Green category	These words mean to Do Wrong. The words are Err, Sin, Fall, and Stray.
Blue category	These are N.B.A Player. The words are Buck, Spur, Net, and Sun.
Purple category	These are Start of African Countries. The words are Bots, Ken, Came, and Tan.

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