NYT Connections game #680 was published Monday, April 21, 2025. Read the hints below before the spoiler-marked answer key if you want help without seeing every group at once.
Hints for Connections #680
The puzzle gives you 16 words to sort into four groups of four. The New York Times Help Center describes the goal as finding four items that share something in common; yellow is the easiest category and purple the trickiest. Words can seem to fit more than one theme, but each puzzle has one intended solution. The New York Times Help Center’s Connections guide explains the rules.
- Yellow: Look for nutrition information printed on food or drink packaging.
- Green: Think of a metaphor for an unpleasant surprise.
- Blue: These are things you can insert into a spreadsheet.
- Purple: Consider objects or concepts with a helical or spiral form.
Spoiler warning: answers below
The category labels and word groupings below reveal the complete solution for game #680.
Yellow — Info on a nutritional label
FAT, IRON, PROTEIN, SODIUM
Green — Metaphor for something unexpected
BOMBSHELL, CURVEBALL, TWIST, WRENCH
Blue — Things you can insert into a spreadsheet
CELL, COLUMN, ROW, SHEET
Purple — Helical things
CORKSCREW, DNA, FUSILLI, SPRING
Complete word bank
CELL, IRON, TWIST, SHEET, SPRING, WRENCH, PROTEIN, CORKSCREW, DNA, CURVEBALL, COLUMN, SODIUM, BOMBSHELL, ROW, FAT, FUSILLI
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The NYT Help Center says the daily puzzle releases at midnight in each player’s timezone and describes an archive reaching back to June 12, 2023, accessible to All Access and Games subscribers. Access terms may change; check the official Connections help page for current details.
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