These are the hints and answers for the Wednesday, April 9, 2025, NYT Connections puzzle, No. 668. Start with the spoiler-safe clues below; the complete board and groups are farther down.
Connections hints for April 9, 2025
Connections asks players to sort 16 words into four groups of four that share a connection. The link may be a meaning, phrase, or wordplay. If you want to preserve the solve, read only the clue for the group where you are stuck.
- Yellow: Think of four round, three-dimensional objects. Their entries start with B, G, O, and S.
- Green: These four words can mean a punch or hit. A light clue: boxers do this daily.
- Blue: The words name animals mentioned in the witches’ brew in Macbeth.
- Purple: Put the same four-letter beginning, FOX, in front of each entry.
Full board and answers
Spoilers: The 16 words are DOG, POP, BALL, SOCK, SLUG, FROG, GLOVE, TROT, BAT, HOUND, GLOBE, POUND, ORB, NEWT, HOLE, and SPHERE.
| Color | Category | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Yellow | Round three-dimensional objects | BALL, GLOBE, ORB, SPHERE |
| Green | Punch | POP, POUND, SLUG, SOCK |
| Blue | Animals in the witches’ brew in Macbeth | BAT, DOG, FROG, NEWT |
| Purple | FOX___ | GLOVE, HOLE, HOUND, TROT |
The purple words complete the compounds foxglove, foxhole, foxhound, and foxtrot.
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A solving note for this board
Check that all four words fit one consistent rule before submitting a group. Three words may look convincing while the fourth belongs elsewhere; also test alternate meanings and phrase uses. Here, for example, “punch” is the shared idea behind POP, POUND, SLUG, and SOCK, while the purple group depends on adding FOX rather than finding a shared definition.
The archive’s staged help includes first-letter clues, a sample word, category reveals, and full group reveals. ComicBook.com’s contemporaneous guide describes four colored categories and four permitted mistakes, but game interfaces can change, so that detail should not be assumed to describe every later version.
The date-specific board and solutions are corroborated by FiveLetterWords’ April 9 archive and ComicBook.com’s April 9, 2025 guide. These are secondary answer guides rather than an official NYT archive.
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