Today's New York Times Connections hints and answers (April 9, 2025): Everything you need to know

Modified Apr 09, 2025 00:40 IST

Today's New York Times Connections hints and answers can save your winning streak. The publisher brings 16 words daily, challenging the community to categorize them into four categories. Each category is connected to a theme, but the publisher does not reveal the names until you fsolve the puzzle.

This article brings four hints to help you decipher the names of the categories or certain words that might fit them so you can narrow down your guesses. You can also cross-check your guesses from the answer segment.

Today's New York Times Connections hints (April 9, 2025)

This segment brings the hints that can help you unravel the categories of the New York Times Connections puzzle for April 9, 2025:

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Categories	Hints
Yellow category	These three-dimensional objects do not have any angles.
Green category	This category relates to hitting someone.
Blue category	Witches from a famous play by Shakespear used these animals.
Purple category	These words sit after a three-letter word that is also the name of an animal.

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Today's New York Times Connections answers for today (April 9, 2025)

All answers for the New York Times Connections puzzle of today:

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

Categories	Answers
Blue category	These are the Animals in the Witches' Brew in "Macbeth." The words are Bat, Newt, Frog, and Dog.
Yellow category	These are Round three-dimensional Objects. The words are Sphere, Globe, Orb, and Ball.
Green category	These words mean Punch. The words are Pop, Slug, Pound, and Sock.
Purple category	These words sit after Fox___. The words are Glove, Hound, Hole, and Trot.

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