NYT Connections today hints and answers for Thursday, April 30 #1,054

Today's puzzle asks you to cross your Ts with possessive pronouns.

Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for April 30 below.

Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,054. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.

Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,053, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.

Alternatively, visit our how to play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.

What is Connections

Solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.

Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.

Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it

Today's Connection Grid and Words

• There
• Check
• Mark
• True
• Alarm
• Hour
• Tyrannosaurus
• Tick
• Time
• Shock
• Cross
• Yore
• Shake
• Hur
• Disturb
• Tesla

Today's Connections Group Hints

If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:

• 🟨 Yellow: Unnerve
• 🟩 Green: Remove, as an item from a list, with "off"
• 🟦 Blue: What "T" might stand for
• 🟪 Purple: Homophones of possessive adjectives

These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.

Today's Connections answers

The Connections answers on April 30 for puzzle #1,054 are a tad easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 1.3 out of 5.

• 🟨 Unnerve: Alarm, disturb, shake, shock
• 🟩 Remove, as an item from a list, with "off": Check, cross, mark, tick
• 🟦 What "T" might stand for: Tesla, time, true, tyrannosaurus
• 🟪 Homophones of possessive adjectives: Hour, hur, there, yore

I felt unnecessarily clever when I saw Hur as "her" which led to hour as "our", there "their" and yore "your." And then it fell apart a bit.

I legitimately thought the check set was the yellow group so I threw in alarm, distrub, shake and shock because I was not making the T connection. Quelle surprise when it was yellow.

In a bit of pique I put in check, cross, mark and tick net.

And my cleverness was put through the wash when the final four came through as T stands in with tesla, time, true and tyrannosaurus. Time and true made sense, it took an embarrisingly long time for T-Rex to click and the T of the Tesla logo. Ah well.

Yesterday's Connections answers

• 🟨 Step in a process: Level, phase, round, stage
• 🟩 Sound like thunder: Boom, clap, roll, rumble
• 🟦 Kinds of puppets: Hand, shadow, sock, string
• 🟪 Standing ____: Joke, orders, ovation, room

Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,053, which had a difficulty rating of 1.7 out of 5.

I managed a reverse rainbow today, though it wasn't what I specifically went for.

I saw ovation and thought standing, which is how I got to standing orders, standing room and standing joke. I'll say standing joke is not a phrase I was not consciously familiar with, but it also felt like the only appropriate term as I went through the grid.

The grid shifted in such a way that shadow, sock, and string were stacked giving me the puppet idea. Then it was just a matter of finding hand, which was next to sock.

Admittedly, I snagged roll, rumble and boom as a fight. It wasn't until clap that I clicked the thunder.

Which left level, phase, round and stage as the final four.