Today's Connections Hints & Answers For April 6, 2024 (Puzzle #299)

Time for a new Connections and today's categories might cause a few players to lose their long-standing win streaks, but not us, we never lose (we lost today.) Sometimes the game just gets you with its mix of words that seem similar but aren't quite right and for today's game, we got hung up on many of those incorrect Connections.

One of the best tips for anyone getting into the game of Connections is to utilize the shuffle button provided at the bottom. Oftentimes, the game will put words next to each other at the start to attempt to trick your brain into making them fit. Hitting shuffle right away can break that up and hopefully avoid some lost attempts.

Related 10 Best Connections Tips, Tricks, & Strategies Four categories with four words each sounds simple, but the daily challenge of the Connections game can prove difficult without a few tips to help.

Today's Connections Category Hints

April 6 #299

Before we spoil today's Connections answers we wanted to provide the daily categories for those players who may just need a little push in the right direction.

BREADTH HAIR TOOLS HERALDRY TERMS WORDS BEFORE “DRUM”

Today's Connections Answers

April 6 #299

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

BREADTH EXTENT RANGE REACH SCOPE

We did end up scoring the yellow category today before our loss, so there's a small victory. RANGE and EXTENT pushed us into the correct category with SCOPE and REACH coming in quickly behind. RANGE did try to trick us at first and we lost an attempt trying to fit it in with the wrong words. SCOPE, REACH, and CREST are also all types of toothpaste which quickly lost us a few more attempts, it just wasn't our day.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

HAIR TOOLS BRUSH COMB IRON DRYER

IRON, STEEL, and SHIELD all threw us off our game today and we didn't even come close to scoring anything except yellow. Sometimes you just get stuck on something and you can't let it go. Hair care tools is a cool category and makes total sense now that we've seen the answers. IRON can be used in a few different ways and if we had just thought curling IRON perhaps we could have at least scored green.

Related Knotwords Is The Best Word Puzzle Game Since Wordle The new game Knotwords combines sudoku and crossword puzzles to create high-quality logic puzzles fit to challenge Wordle's former crown.

Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

HERALDRY TERMS ARMS COAT CREST SHIELD

Another category we didn't get to score today, but a good one nonetheless. CREST and SHIELD really should have given this one away and even though we may not have seen ARMS matching up at first, it makes perfect sense in hindsight.

While looking up COAT of ARMS we found some fantastic national ones on the Sparrow & Dove website. We were particularly enamored with Thailand's use of Garuda, which is the mount of Lord Vishnu in Hinduism. That is one of the coolest-looking birds I've ever seen.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

WORDS BEFORE “DRUM” EAR KETTLE OIL STEEL

STEEL was a real Achilles heel for us in today's game. It's obvious match with IRON sent us on a wild goose chase that eventually led to our demise. KETTLE also didn't come easily as we didn't know what a KETTLE drum was by name. After a quick Google it was clear, I prefer a tea KETTLE but I'm not the editor of Connections.

Other Games Like Connections

If you failed today's game like we did, before chucking your phone across the room, check out these other browser-based games. They may be a little more forgiving. Well, not The Password Game, that thing is aggressively difficult.

Game Name How To Play Is It Free To Play? Wordle (NYT) Solve a random five-letter word by using color clues. Every Wordle answer can be found in our daily updated list. Yes Absurdle Try to solve a game of Wordle without any help. With each guess, the game reveals as little information as possible, even changing word if need be. Yes The Password Game Create a password in this ever-changing, not-so-simple game. You can find some helpful tips in our Password Game guide. Yes Worldle Name a country based only on its silhouette, and a few geographical hints. Yes