NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, April 21 (game #680)

Date:
Sun, 20 Apr 2025 14:00:00 +0000

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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each
day for your time zone which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Sunday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers
for Sunday, April 20 (game #677) .

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. NYT Connections today (game #680) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are CELL IRON TWIST SHEET SPRING WRENCH PROTEIN CORKSCREW DNA CURVEBALL COLUMN SODIUM BOMBSHELL ROW FAT FUSILLI NYT Connections today (game #680) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Food information GREEN: Surprise element BLUE: Excel or Google PURPLE: Spirals

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 #680) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: INFO ON A NUTRITION LABEL GREEN: METAPHOR FOR SOMETHING UNEXPECTED BLUE: THINGS YOU CAN INSERT INTO A SPREADSHEET PURPLE: HELICAL THINGS

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #680) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #680, are YELLOW: INFO ON A
NUTRITION 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 My rating: Moderate My score: 1 mistake

My mistake today came with what would become HELICAL THINGS.

From FUSILLI, I immediately knew that we were looking for spiral shapes, but
I ignored SPRING as an object and picked CURVEBALL instead, thinking of the spin of a ball thrown by a baseball pitcher spun in a spiral. I abandoned
this group as the rest seemed more concrete.

I use Google Sheets nearly every day for one reason or another, so THINGS YOU CAN INSERT INTO A SPREADSHEET was an easy solve. And although INFO ON A NUTRITIONAL LABEL wasnt what I was thinking, FAT, IRON, PROTEIN and SODIUM seemed to belong together.

Incidentally, returning to fusilli, it is a brilliant pasta shape that is often the victim of misidentification.

For years I thought I was eating fusilli, which is a hollow coiled spring shape, but I was actually eating rotini, which is corkscrew shaped pasta.
It's not my fault rotini is often sold as fusilli. Its like John Travolta and Nicolas Cage in Face/Off theyve changed identities and everyones unsure who is who. Fortunately they both have excellent sauce-attracting grooves (the pasta, not John Travolta and Nicolas Cage's faces).

How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Sunday, 20 April, game #679) YELLOW: GLIMPSE GANDER, GLANCE, LOOK, PEEP GREEN: NEEDS FOR TIE-DYEING A SHIRT BASIN, DYE, RUBBER BANDS, SHIRT BLUE: THINGS YOU CAN CRACK CODE, EGG, JOKE, WHIP PURPLE: WORDS BEFORE "HOP" BAR, BUNNY, HIP, SOCK 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.



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