NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, April 10 (game #1034)

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 #1034) – today’s words

(Image credit: New York Times)

Today’s NYT Connections words are…

GONZO
NUTTY
CAROLINA REAPER
JACK-IN-THE-BOX
SONIC
FIRM
TOASTER
CHIPOTLE
BELL PEPPER
EJECTOR SEAT
SWISS
BLUE
POP-UP BOOK
GENIE
HOLEY
PEPPERONCINO

NYT Connections today (game #1034) – hint #1 – group hints

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

YELLOW: Capiscums
GREEN: Springy things 
BLUE: Words for fromage 
PURPLE: A color in common

Need more clues?

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 #1034) – hint #2 – group answers

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

YELLOW: PEPPERS 
GREEN: THINGS THAT POP UP 
BLUE: DESCRIPTORS FOR SWISS CHEESE 
PURPLE: BLUE CHARACTERS

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

NYT Connections today (game #1034) – the answers

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today’s Connections, game #1034, are…

YELLOW: PEPPERS BELL PEPPER, CAROLINA REAPER, CHIPOTLE, PEPPERONCINO
GREEN: THINGS THAT POP UP EJECTOR SEAT, JACK-IN-THE-BOX, POP-UP BOOK, TOASTER
BLUE: DESCRIPTORS FOR SWISS CHEESE FIRM, HOLEY, NUTTY, SWISS
PURPLE: BLUE CHARACTERS BLUE, GENIE, GONZO, SONIC

My rating: Easy
My score: Perfect

I managed to get the yellow PEPPERS group quickly, but I submitted my foursome with some trepidation as, along the lines of CAROLINA REAPER, both JACK-IN-THE-BOX and EJECTOR SEAT sound as if they could be particular potent capiscums.

Detecting a cheese group with SWISS and BLUE among the remaining tiles, I was tempted to include JACK-IN-THE-BOX here too, but in the end the connection to TOASTER and the other THINGS THAT POP was too strong.

Meanwhile, I am sure I am not the only European cheese snob who would have preferred if the group containing FIRM, HOLEY, NUTTY, and SWISS had been called descriptors for Emmental cheese rather than DESCRIPTORS FOR SWISS CHEESE, seeing as there are dozens of Swiss cheeses and most of them don’t contain holes. Although to be fair maybe the cheeseheads at Connections HQ were thinking about Appenzeller.

Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Thursday, April 9, game #1033)

YELLOW: GLOOMY BLUE, DARK, DOWN, LOW
GREEN: OINTMENT BALM, CREAM, PASTE, RUB
BLUE: ZODIAC SYMBOLS ARCHER, FISH, GOAT, RAM
PURPLE: MUSCULAR, MINUS “ED” SOUND JACK, RIP, SHRED, YOKE

What is NYT Connections?

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.