Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for April 29, #1053
The New York Times offers hints and answers for its daily Connections puzzle. Today's puzzle features a variety of challenging topics, with hints provided for each group. Players can track their progress and receive analysis through the Times Games section.
- ▪Today's Connections puzzle includes hints for four groups: yellow, green, blue, and purple.
- ▪The yellow group theme is 'step in a process' with answers like level, phase, round, and stage.
- ▪Players can analyze their performance using the Connections Bot after completing the puzzle.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 9 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
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| Original publisher | CNET — News |
| Canonical URL | https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/todays-nyt-connections-hints-answers-and-help-for-april-29-1053/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:01:06 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-04-28T20:39:39.784Z |
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| Cluster | Cr4Ii3fR7kz1 · 2 stories |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle has a varied mix of topics, and some of them are pretty challenging. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.
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