Today's Connections Hints & Answers For April 29, 2025 (Puzzle #688)

Today's Connections puzzle challenges those who stick with the first context they think of while looking at some words. I found that this puzzle was incredibly easy to make mistakes on, as some phrases lead you to an incorrect idea separate from what is right. Without some helpful hints to guide you, this puzzle may cause you to fail faster than many others from previous days. If there was a theme to today's puzzle, it would be activities and celebrations due to the context behind some words. If you're familiar with the Vertex NYT puzzle game, you may have a head start with today's puzzle, as visualizing certain concepts will make them easier to understand. Remember, you only have four chances to make a mistake before losing, so take your time to look up words. Today's Connections Category Hints April 29 #688 I was able to solve today's puzzle by thinking about all the ways I interacted with certain words rather than their straightforward definitions. For example, the word PITCHER could refer to a pitcher in a baseball game, but if I interact with it, it's more likely to reference a pitcher of water or lemonade I would drink. You'll have an easier time finding today's puzzle solution by imagining the context of words through the activities you do with them. If you're struggling to understand what categories could be in today's puzzle, try following these helpful hints: One category is about things related to amalgamations of food you make as a foundation for something bigger. One category is about things related to items you would use to set up a celebration for dinner. One category is about things related to items or landmarks you can use to reach higher places. One category is about things related to how a certain shape is used in different contexts. Related 5 Letter Words Wordle Hasn't Used Yet (Updated Daily) Wordle, the popular word-guessing game hosted by The New York Times, has over 1,700 words remaining as possible solutions. If you want to go all out with some of your clue-searching, you should look at the category names to get some extra help. There are also spoilers for each category if you find yourself needing to solve a single category to finish up. COOKING CONCOCTIONS SEEN ON A TABLE AT A DINNER PARTY THINGS TO CLIMB WHAT "DIAMOND" CAN REFER TO Today's Connections Answers April 29 #688 Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained COOKING CONCOCTIONS BATTER DOUGH MIXTURE PASTE At first, I thought that BATTER, PITCHER, INFIELD, and PLATE were all words in a group to go along with a baseball-themed category. Upon making that mistake, I rethought about how else BATTER could be used when I interacted with it. From there, I realized that BATTER and DOUGH were similar cooking bases, with PASTE and MIXTURE also referring to foundational parts of a meal that have to be baked or cooked to form something new. Green Answers: Revealed & Explained SEEN ON A TABLE AT A DINNER PARTY CANDLESTICK PITCHER PLACEMAT PLATE After figuring out PITCHER or PLATE wasn't part of a baseball concept, I kept the words together and searched for others. My initial thought was that a PITCHER of lemonade would be great at a picnic, with a PLATE also being necessary for food. From there, a PLACEMAT was easy to fit into the group, but CANDLESTICK was a random guess that ended up being the correct answer. Related 12 Letter Boxed Strategies To Win Quickly The Letter Boxed game for the New York Times mobile app asks you to connect letters to form words while using various strategies to win quickly. Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained THINGS TO CLIMB LADDER MOUNTAIN ROPE TREE Climbing a ROPE and LADDER seemed like straightforward activities to me that aligned with today's puzzle themes. However, it was tough to put TREE and MOUNTAIN into the mix, as I did not associate climbing as an activity with either of those words. After some time, I recognized that hiking up a MOUNTAIN was similar enough to climbing, allowing me to fit TREE as the final word for this part of the puzzle. Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained WHAT "DIAMOND" CAN REFER TO GEMSTONE INFIELD RHOMBUS SUIT This was definitely the hardest part of the puzzle for me, as I imagined INFIELD with a baseball concept at first. After some deliberation, my brain was still focused on baseball, so I thought about the diamond shape of an INFIELD. This made me recognize RHOMBUS as a diamond by another name, leading me to include GEMSTONE and SUIT for similar reasons, as they both had diamonds as a concept close to them. Other Games Like Connections If you are looking for another puzzle to play, check out one of the ones in the box below.

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