If youre looking for the Connections answer for Thursday, April 3, 2025, read onIll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solutions to all four categories. Along the way, Ill explain the meanings of the trickier words and well learn how everything fits together. Beware, there are spoilers below for April 3, NYT Connections #662! Read on if you want some hints (and then the answer) to todays Connections game.

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Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need!

Credit: Connections/NYT Hints for the themes in todays Connections puzzleHere are some spoiler-free hints for the groupings in todays Connections:

Yellow category - What you might use to spread the word about a party, a new business, or a missing pet.

Green category - These things are near the gum, candy, and magazines.

Blue category - They all have an anatomical feature with the same name, but its a little different for each of them.

Purple category - A fill-in-the-blank, with a word describing the soft side of your hand.

BEWARE: Spoilers follow for todays Connections puzzle!Were about to give away some of the answers. Scroll slowly if you dont want the whole thing spoiled. (The full solution is a bit further down.)

A heads up about the tricky partsTo open a SODA CAN, you have to pull upward on a certain thing.

NOTICE is a noun, not a verb.

READER goes with another word to describe a type of fortuneteller.

What are the categories in todays Connections?Yellow: PRINTED NOTIFICATION

Green: SEEN AT A GROCERY CHECKOUT COUNTER

Blue: THINGS WITH TABS

Purple: PALM ___

DOUBLE BEWARE: THE SOLUTION IS BELOWReady to learn the answers to todays Connections puzzle? I give them all away below.

What are the yellow words in todays Connections?The yellow grouping is considered to be the most straightforward. The theme for todays yellow group is PRINTED NOTIFICATION and the words are: ANNOUNCEMENT, BULLETIN, NOTICE, POSTER.

What are the green words in todays Connections?The green grouping is supposed to be the second-easiest. The theme for todays green category is SEEN AT A GROCERY CHECKOUT COUNTER and the words are: CONVEYOR BELT, REGISTER, SCALE, SCANNER.

What are the blue words in todays Connections?The blue grouping is the second-hardest. The theme for todays blue category is THINGS WITH TABS and the words are: BROWSER, FOLDER, KEYBOARD, SODA CAN.

What are the purple words in todays Connections?The purple grouping is considered to be the hardest. The theme for todays purple category is PALM ___ and the words are: BEACH, READER, SUNDAY, TREE.

How I solved todays ConnectionsI think I see a tech products/tools category (SCANNER, BROWSER, FOLDER, KEYBOARD) and a news-related category (POSTER, NOTICE, BULLETIN, ANNOUNCEMENT).

I dont feel strongly about the first category, but the second one seems like a hit. Lets try it: POSTER, NOTICE, BULLETIN, ANNOUNCEMENT.

BEACH and BROWSER seem like they could be Mario characters (Peach and Bowser) with one letter changed/added, but I dont see any others like that.

I just realized that SODA CAN, KEYBOARD, and FOLDER are all things that have tabs. That feels like a hit. Wheres the fourth, though? Oh, a BROWSER, which gets the name of its tabs from a FOLDER (right?).

REGISTER makes me think of a cash REGISTER, but I dont really see any other cash words.

What do you think so far? Post a comment. SCANNER makes me think of either a police SCANNER or an office appliance used to scan and copy documents.

Oh, maybe SCALE and CONVEYOR BELT are items associated with checking luggage at an airport? I guess that would probably go with SCANNER and REGISTER? Im not 100% sure on that, but lets see. I was on the right track, but made it too complicated: its grocery store things, not airport things. SCALE is what threw me offI forgot about the scales they use to calculate prices of produce.

That leaves BEACH, SUNDAY, TREE, and READER. READER makes me think of Readers Digest, but I dont think that fits with the other words. BEACH and SUNDAY certainly make me think of relaxed weekend vibes, but I dont see how that connects to the others.

SUNDAY scaries? BEACH vacation? Shady TREE? Pine TREE? BEACH towel? I have no idea. Lets see. Oh, PALM ___. PALM Beach is a place in Florida; a PALM reader is someone who predicts your future based on the lines of your hands; PALM Sunday is the Sunday before Easter; and a PALM tree is a beachy plant.

Connections Puzzle #662 How to play ConnectionsI have a full guide to playing Connections, but heres a refresher on the rules:

First, find the Connections game either on the New York Times website or in their Games app (formerly the Crossword app). Youll see a game board with 16 tiles, each with one word or phrase. Your job is to select a group of four tiles that have something in common. Often they are all the same type of thing (for example: RAIN, SLEET, HAIL, and SNOW are all types of wet weather) but sometimes there is wordplay involved (for example, BUCKET, GUEST, TOP TEN, and WISH are all types of lists: bucket list, guest list, and so on).

Select four items and hit the Submit button. If you guessed correctly, the category and color will be revealed. (Yellow is easiest, followed by green, then blue, then purple.) If your guess was incorrect, youll get a chance to try again.

You win when youve correctly identified all four groups. But if you make four mistakes before you finish, the game ends and the answers are revealed.

How to win ConnectionsThe most important thing to know to win Connections is that the groupings are designed to be tricky. Expect to see overlapping groups. For example, one puzzle seemed to include six breakfast foods: BACON, EGG, PANCAKE, OMELET, WAFFLE, and CEREAL. But BACON turned out to be part of a group of painters along with CLOSE, MUNCH, and WHISTLER, and EGG was in a group of things that come by the dozen (along with JUROR, ROSE, and MONTH). So dont hit submit until youve confirmed that your group of four contains only those four things.

If youre stuck, another strategy is to look at the words that seem to have no connection to the others. If all that comes to mind when you see WHISTLER is the painting nicknamed Whistlers Mother, you might be on to something. When I solved that one, I ended up googling whether there was a painter named Close, because Close didnt fit any of the obvious themes, either.

Another way to win when youre stuck is, obviously, to read a few helpful hintswhich is why we share these pointers every day. Check back tomorrow for the next puzzle!