Skip to main content Tom's Guide Tom's Guide Search Tom's Guide View Profile Newsletters Best Picks Entertainment Nintendo Switch 2 MacBook Air M4 Amazon Spring Sale Best Mattress Wordle Today NYT Connections today hints and answers — Friday, April 4 (#663) Scott Younker 3 April 2025 Get clues and answers for today's NYT Connections to keep your streak When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Future) Today's hint Today's answers Yesterday's answers Looking for clues for today's Connections answers? The Connections answers on April 4 for puzzle #663 are a much easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.5 out of 5. Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words. Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #662, in case you're reading this in a different time zone. Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #663. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers. Alternatively, visit our how to play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help. Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it (Image credit: New York Times) Unlike our guide to today's Wordle answer, where we recommend the best Wordle start words as your strategy, solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful. Today's Connections words are: Drive, Park, Harmony, Balance, Diamond, Ink, Rest, Spin, Difference, Field, Cruise, Bay, Ride, Trade, Stadium, and Remainder. Sign up to get the BEST of Tom's Guide direct to your inbox. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsBy submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty: 🟨 Yellow: What's leftover 🟩 Green: Car trip 🟦 Blue: Baseball venues 🟪 Purple: Companies with "E" removed These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further. Here's a larger hint: Check your accounts, go to a game, go for a drive and ignore online companies. Today's Connections answers So, what are today's Connections answers for game #663? Drumroll, please... 🟨 What's leftover: Balance, difference, remainder, rest 🟩 Car trip: Cruise, drive, ride, spin 🟦 Baseball venues: Diamond, field, park, stadium 🟪 Companies with "E" removed: Bay, harmony, ink, trade I snagged balance, difference, remainder and rest because its what I saw first. From there, in the baseball mood, I saw diamond and field. Park and stadium fell soon after. I saw green but put in the purple first which was companies minus their starting E. Which was E-Bay, E-Harmony, E-Ink, and E-Trade. Then we wrapped up the puzzle with cruise, drive, ride and spin for taking the car out. Yesterday's Connections answers 🟨 Printed notification: Announcement, bulletin, notice, poster 🟩 Seen at a grocery checkout counter: Conveyor belt, register, scale, scanner 🟦 Things with tabs: Browser, folder, keyboard, soda can 🟪 Palm ____: Beach, reader, sunday, tree Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #662, which had a difficulty rating of 3.3 out of 5, according to the Connections Companion. I'm coming off a nasty head cold, so today's puzzle was a grind for my hazy mind, but we made it through by going very slowly. What stuck out first was bulletin and reader, where I briefly thought of the end titles for newspapers. That didn't go anywhere but I stuck with bulletin and saw announcement From there poster and notice seemed most obvious, yellow down. Register and conveyor belt felt to me like a check out line thing. I took a strike when I had soda can and scanner, but now knew I was one away. It took a moment to find scale and swap it in for soda can. I am not a tab monster like some internet denizens (he says while holding 20 tabs open across three different windows; there are worse), but that's what I thought looking at browsers. Folder made sense from there. Eventually I got to keyboard with the tab button. Again, it took a moment to remember that soda cans have tabs, what you use to pop them open. And we wrapped it up with Palm Beach, Palm Reader, Palm Sunday and Palm Tree. See more Gaming News Scott Younker Social Links Navigation West Coast Reporter Scott Younker is the West Coast Reporter at Tom’s Guide. He covers all the lastest tech news. He’s been involved in tech since 2011 at various outlets and is on an ongoing hunt to build the easiest to use home media system. When not writing about the latest devices, you are more than welcome to discuss board games or disc golf with him. You must confirm your public display name before commenting Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name. Latest in Gaming NYT Connections today hints and answers — Friday, April 4 (#663) Nintendo Switch 2 — Nvidia says it has 10x the graphics power of original Switch Switch 2 battery life confirmed — and it’s not good news NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #397 (Friday, April 4 2025) All 22 confirmed Nintendo Switch 2 launch games — here’s what’s available on day one I just played the Nintendo Switch 2 and it's everything I wanted — except for one thing Latest in News NYT Connections today hints and answers — Friday, April 4 (#663) Amazon's Starlink competitor finally blasts off next week — what you need to know Intel and TSMC join forces on chipmaking venture — and it could transform Intel forever Nintendo Switch 2 — Nvidia says it has 10x the graphics power of original Switch 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' gets retro in new season 3 teaser trailer — watch it here ChatGPT-5 is coming 'soon' — here's what we know More about gaming Nintendo Switch 2 — Nvidia says it has 10x the graphics power of original Switch Naughty Dog told us The Last of Us Part II is 'perfect' for Steam Deck — we put that to the test NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #397 (Friday, April 4 2025) See more latest Most Popular NYT Strands today — hints, spangram and answers for game #397 (Friday, April 4 2025) Amazon's Starlink competitor finally blasts off next week — what you need to know Intel and TSMC join forces on chipmaking venture — and it could transform Intel forever Nintendo Switch 2 — Nvidia says it has 10x the graphics power of original Switch 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' gets retro in new season 3 teaser trailer — watch it here 'The Accountant 2' trailer with Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal looks like an amazing sequel to my favorite guilty pleasure action thriller ChatGPT-5 is coming 'soon' — here's what we know Switch 2 battery life confirmed — and it’s not good news F1 2025: Where to watch Japanese Grand Prix live stream Adobe Premiere Pro just got a huge generative AI upgrade — here's all the new features LATEST ARTICLES Sleepyhead Cooling Copper Mattress Topper review: a hygienic boost for hard dorm beds Intel and TSMC join forces on chipmaking venture — and it could transform Intel forever Nintendo Switch 2 — Nvidia says it has 10x the graphics power of original Switch I really enjoyed testing this Lomography instant camera — but it looks so goofy that teenagers laughed at me The Happy Plugs Joy Speaker won me over with its looks — and then instantly let me down with its tinny sound Tom's Guide is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Visit our corporate site. Terms and conditions Contact Future's experts Privacy policy Cookies policy Accessibility Statement Advertise with us Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, Please login or signup to comment Please wait...