{"id":612850,"date":"2026-04-17T12:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612850\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:03:09","slug":"todays-nyt-connections-hints-answers-for-april-17-1041","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612850\/","title":{"rendered":"Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers for April 17 #1041"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints<\/a>, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.<\/p>\n

Today’s NYT\u00a0Connections puzzle<\/a>\u00a0offers a fun purple category. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.<\/p>\n

The Times has a Connections Bot<\/a>, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress<\/a>, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time<\/a><\/p>\n

Hints for today’s Connections groups<\/p>\n

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.<\/p>\n

Yellow group hint: Healthy food.<\/p>\n

Green group hint: Widespread.<\/p>\n

Blue group hint: Ebony and ivory.<\/p>\n

Purple group hint: Cheers!<\/p>\n

Answers for today’s Connections groups<\/p>\n

Yellow group: Vegetable parts.<\/p>\n

Green group: Prevailing.<\/p>\n

Blue group: Parts of a piano.<\/p>\n

Purple group: Second halves of drink names.<\/p>\n

Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words<\/a><\/p>\n

What are today’s Connections answers? \"completed <\/p>\n

The completed NYT Connections puzzle for April 17, 2026.<\/p>\n

NYT\/Screenshot by CNETThe yellow words in today’s Connections<\/p>\n

The theme is vegetable parts. The four answers are bulb, leaf, root and stem.<\/p>\n

The green words in today’s Connections<\/p>\n

The theme is prevailing. The four answers are common, dominant, general and popular.<\/p>\n

The blue words in today’s Connections<\/p>\n

The theme is parts of a piano. The four answers are hammer, key, pedal and string.<\/p>\n

The purple words in today’s Connections<\/p>\n

The theme is second halves of drink names. The four answers are soda, stormy, tan and tonic.<\/p>\n

Toughest Connections puzzles<\/p>\n

We’ve made a note of some of the toughest Connections puzzles<\/a> so far. Maybe they’ll help you see patterns in future puzzles.<\/p>\n

#5: Included “things you can set,” such as mood, record, table and volleyball.<\/p>\n

#4: Included “one in a dozen,” such as egg, juror, month and rose.<\/p>\n

#3: Included “streets on screen,” such as Elm, Fear, Jump and Sesame.<\/p>\n

#2: Included “power ___” such as nap, plant, Ranger and trip.<\/p>\n

#1: Included “things that can run,” such as candidate, faucet, mascara and nose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-612850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}