Today's NYT Connections hints and answers (April 2, 2025): All puzzle answers

Modified Apr 02, 2025 11:55 IST

Today's NYT Connections hints and answers can help you maintain your winning streak. In this game, the New York Times presents 16 words, challenging players to sort them into four categories, each tied together by a specific theme. However, the catch is that the names of the categories aren’t revealed beforehand. To make things even trickier, players only get four chances to figure it all out.

This article provides four hints to guide you in uncovering the category names. You can also double-check your guesses in the last section before finalizing your answers.

Today's NYT Connections hints (April 2, 2025)

The table below offers four hints for the NYT Connections puzzle on April 2, 2025:

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All NYT Connections words for today, April 2, 2025 (Image via The New York Times)

Categories	Hints
Yellow category	This category relates to doing something without planning.
Green category	These words describe specific features of something or someone.
Blue category	These people share their surname.
Purple category	These words can also be names

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NYT Connections answers for today (April 2, 2025)

Given below are the answers to today's New York Connections puzzle:

All answers for the NYT Connections today, April 2, 2025 (Image via The New York Times)

Categories	Answers
Yellow category	These words mean Caprice. The words are Fancy, Impulse, Lerk, and Whim.
Green category	This category is called "ILK." The words are Kind, Sort, Like, and Type.
Blue category	These are people who share the surname Williams. The words are Hank, Tenneessee, Robin, and Venus.
Purple category	These are Words Pronounced Differently as Proper Nouns. The words are Herb, Job, Reading, and Nice.

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