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Looking for clues for today's Connections answers? The Connections answers on April 5 for puzzle #1,029 are the same as yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 3.5 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.
Article continues belowToday'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:
- Pipe
- Pancake
- Pulpit
- Light Switch
- Shell
- Violin
- Mushroom
- Orbit
- Coin
- Pasteurize
- Nucleus
- Magnifying Glass
- Electron
- Googol
- Deerstalker
- The Bird
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Atomic structure terms
- 🟩 Green: Parts of a sherlock Holmes costume
- 🟦 Blue: Things to flip
- 🟪 Purple: Starting with synonyms for 'slush'
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: This famous expression will block your view of the giant mountain while you spend a season away from your family.
Today's Connections answers
So, what are today's Connections answers for game #1,029?
Drumroll, please...
- 🟨 Atomic structure terms: Electron, nucleus, orbit, shell
- 🟩 Parts of a sherlock Holmes costume: Deerstalker, magnifying glass, pipe, violin
- 🟦 Things to flip: Coin, light switch, pancake, the bird
- 🟪 Starting with synonyms for 'slush': Googol, mushroom, pasteurize, pulpit
Today's puzzle was a bit tricky but I got there eventually. Deerstalker made me think of Doyle's iconic detective, and after I saw magnifying glass I knew I was on the right track. Pipe was easy enough to spot, but violin feels like more of a deep cut.
With green out of the way, I dug through what I remembered from high school science class and scooped up yellow with electron, nucleus, orbit, and shell.
After that came blue with coin, light switch, pancake, and the bird.
That left purple as today's rote fill with googol, mushroom, pasteurize, and pulpit.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 "Let sleeping dogs lie": Dogs, let, lie, sleeping
- 🟩 Obscure: Cover, mask, screen, shield
- 🟦 Coastal landforms: Bluff, cape, point, spit
- 🟪 ___ Camp: Band, base, boot, summer
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1026, which had a difficulty rating of 2 out of 5.
I really enjoyed today's Connections puzzle and found it to be the right mix of easy words for yellow and progressively more difficult words as you moved through the colors.
And moving through them is exactly what I did, as I got "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie" almost instantly.
From there, I quickly noticed the green words related to blocking, which was ultimately called Obscure.
After green, I paused for a bit, as I saw the landform connection between Bluff, cape, point, but after trying base, thinking it was somehow related to mountains, I was stumped for a couple of guesses before trying spit, which isn't a landform I've ever heard of. Thankfully, I guessed right and was left with only the types of camp for purple.
Connections tips — how to win at Connections
There are two ways to play Connections, get the answers as you solve them or solve for the hardest group, Purple, first.
For either playstyle, the best tip I can give is to not be afraid of the shuffle button, especially if you’ve solved a set but you’re certain it isn’t the Purple group. You can shuffle the grid until your solved quartet is in a somewhat staked off area.
For the purple group, you can expect to see a handful of category types: words missing a letter, homophones, words with specific suffixes or prefixes, and [blank] word (or word [blank]). There are others, but this is a majority of what you’ll see. It can help to look for purple connections through one of those lenses.
If you’re not hunting for purple specifically, then the best advice I have is to look for smaller connections. For example, Riddler and Joker are Batman villains. Once you’ve grouped that duo together it’s easier to find another set.
Finally, watch out for traps. Occasionally, the Connections makers like to throw in a set of words that should seem very obvious to most people. But picking them can give you a strike, something you want to save for when you aren’t really sure between a couple of clues.
The tricky bit is that sometimes the very obvious foursome is actually one of the answers (usually the yellow or green levels).
One way to work around this is to note the four clues you think are an obvious set. Highlight them by selecting the words but don’t hit submit. From there take a second look around the grid to see if anything else stands out to you.
Often these super obvious sets are actually individually spread out between the four groups. So, if you see Wick, Neo, Ted and Mnemonic, you might immediately think of Keanu Reeves movies, but it's a trick. Instead, use the individual words as launching points to discover other connections.
If you're new to the game you should also take a look at our How to play Connections guide.
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