NYT Connections today hints and answers — Thursday, April 3 (#662)

Looking for clues for today's Connections answers? The Connections answers on April 3 for puzzle #662 are a little easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 3.3 out of 5.

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.

Plus, we're including a reflection on Tuesday's puzzle, #660, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.

Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #662. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.

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

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

Unlike our guide to today's Wordle answer, where we recommend the best Wordle start words as your strategy, 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.

Today's Connections words are: Scanner, Browser, Poster, Reader, Notice, Beach, Register, Folder, Sunday, Bulletin, Scale, Tree, Soda Can, Conveyor Belt, Keyboard, and Announcement.

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

• 🟨 Yellow: Printed notification
• 🟩 Green: Seen at a grocery checkout counter
• 🟦 Blue: Things with tabs
• 🟪 Purple: Palm ____

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.

Here's a larger hint: Take in some posters at the grocery store while getting ready for a beachy day of not looking at tabs.

Today's Connections answers

So, what are today's Connections answers for game #662?

Drumroll, please...

• 🟨 Printed notification: Announcement, bulletin, notice, poster
• 🟩 Seen at a grocery checkout counter: Conveyor belt, register, scale, scanner
• 🟦 Things with tabs: Browser, folder, keyboard, soda can
• 🟪 Palm ____: Beach, reader, sunday, tree

I'm coming off a nasty head cold, so today's puzzle was a grind for my hazy mind, but we made it through by going very slowly.

What stuck out first was bulletin and reader, where I briefly thought of the end titles for newspapers. That didn't go anywhere but I stuck with bulletin and saw announcement From there poster and notice seemed most obvious, yellow down.

Register and conveyor belt felt to me like a check out line thing. I took a strike when I had soda can and scanner, but now knew I was one away. It took a moment to find scale and swap it in for soda can.

I am not a tab monster like some internet denizens (he says while holding 20 tabs open across three different windows; there are worse), but that's what I thought looking at browsers. Folder made sense from there. Eventually I got to keyboard with the tab button. Again, it took a moment to remember that soda cans have tabs, what you use to pop them open.

And we wrapped it up with Palm Beach, Palm Reader, Palm Sunday and Palm Tree.

Yesterday's Connections answers

• 🟨 Currency symbols: $, £, ¥, €
• 🟩 And/together with: &, +, N, X
• 🟦 Emoticon mouths: (, ), O, P
• 🟪 "Right": R, →, ⊾, ✔

Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #660, which had a difficulty rating of 4.6 out of 5, according to the Connections Companion.

This is honestly the hardest puzzle we've had since the pictorial puzzle a few months ago. I got out of this one with one strike left and even then it was a close thing.

To kick things off, I got the most obvious one to me, currencies. Which included - $, £, ¥, € or US dollar, English pound, Japanese Yen and the European Union's Euro.

I took my first strike looking for PEMDAS with the parentheses, x and plus symbol.

My second strike came as I was looking for "correct" answers when I combined the x, check mark, plus symbol with the P symbol. At this point, I took a break because I was not clicking with this one.

I stuck with that idea when I sat down again and the purple group popped into place with the angle symbol and I thought "right angle."

The check mark works, plus the arrow. I wasn't sure on the letter R, but I tried it just in case and voila, the purple set.

I took my third strike trying out a random group just to see what would happen. No information.

Here, I slowed down again and decided to focus on one symbol. The ampersand stuck out the most of what was left. I got the plus sign as and which lead to the X. I didn't and still don't like the N symbol for this, but I added it in as a roll of the dice because I had nothing else.

And we wrapped it up with emoticon mouths ala :(, :), :O, and :P.

Yeah, I was never going to get that one today.