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NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, April 5 (game #1029)

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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, April 4 (game #1028).

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

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NYT Connections today (game #1029) - today's words

NYT Connections today (game #1029) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections today (game #1029) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #1029) - the answers

The answers to today's Connections, game #1029, are…

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YELLOW: ATOMIC STRUCTURE TERMS ELECTRON, NUCLEUS, ORBIT, SHELL

GREEN: PARTS OF A SHERLOCK HOLMES COSTUME DEERSTALKER, MAGNIFYING GLASS, PIPE, VIOLIN

BLUE: THINGS TO FLIP COIN, LIGHT SWITCH, PANCAKE, THE BIRD

PURPLE: STARTING WITH SYNONYMS FOR "SLUSH" GOOGOL, MUSHROOM, PASTEURIZE, PULPIT

The first thing that stood out from today’s tiles was DEERSTALKER, an item of headwear that will forever be associated with one person — Sherlock Holmes. I was less certain of the other items, but MAGNIFYING GLASS and PIPE seemed to fit and I’ve got vague recollections of Benedict Cumberbatch’s version playing VIOLIN, so I went for it.

Happily I was correct but I’d like to take issue with a violin being considered PARTS OF A SHERLOCK HOLMES COSTUME.

Anyway, pressing onwards, and slightly disappointed that my shot in the dark wasn’t a purple group, a distant memory of science revision helped me connect the four ATOMIC STRUCTURE TERMS.

Grinding to a halt and initially seeing no links between the remaining eight tiles I decided that PANCAKE, COIN, LIGHT SWITCH and THE BIRD were all THINGS TO FLIP.

Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Saturday, April 4, game #1028)

YELLOW: "LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE" DOGS, LET, LIE, SLEEPING

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

Johnny is a freelance pop culture journalist who has been writing about the internet, music, football and famous people since the i Phone was just a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye. Previously known by the pseudonym the Pop Detective, his journalistic career began making up stories about Madonna's addiction to sausage rolls (this is not true by the way). A man of few talents, his career is rich and various and includes the highs of interviewing Elton John and Blur; and the lows of interviewing Right Said Fred, appearing on a Channel 5 documentary about Peter Kay, and fact-checking the instruction manual for a German cooker. Somehow still affording to live in North London he is at his happiest riding his bicycle and shouting at pigeons.

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