Skip to main content Tom's Guide Tom's Guide Search Tom's Guide View Profile Newsletters Best Picks Entertainment Nintendo Switch 2 Tariff tracker Best Mattress Wordle Today NYT Connections today hints and answers — Wednesday, April 9 (#668) Scott Younker 8 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 9 for puzzle #668 are harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.8 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, #667, in case you're reading this in a different time zone. You may like NYT Connections today hints and answers — Friday, March 28 (#656) NYT Connections today hints and answers — Monday, March 31 (#659) Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #668. 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: Dog, Pop, Ball, Sock, Slug, Frog, Glove, Trot, Bat, Hound, Globe, Pound, Orb, Newt, Hole, and Sphere. 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: Round three-dimensional objects 🟩 Green: Punch 🟦 Blue: Animals in the witches' brew in "Macbeth" 🟪 Purple: Fox ____ 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: Get round in the fox hole with animals battling in Macbeth. Today's Connections answers So, what are today's Connections answers for game #668? Drumroll, please... 🟨 Round three-dimensional objects: Ball, globe, orb, sphere 🟩 Punch: Pop, pound, slug, sock 🟦 Animals in the witches' brew in "Macbeth": Bat, dog, frog, newt 🟪 Fox ____: Glove, hole, hound, trot With the end of March Madness, I was thinking round ball rock and snatched up ball, globe, orb and sphere right away. I was looking at hound and was reminded of The Fox and the Hound. Which led me to foxhound followed by other fox things; fox trot, foxglove and foxhole. Took it easy with the green category snagging pop, pound, slug and sock. And we wrapped it up with the witches brew of bat, dog, frog and newt from Macbeth. Yesterday's Connections answers 🟨 Prick: Jab, pierce, poke, stick 🟩 Radio lingo: Copy, negative, over, roger 🟦 Old Testament books: Daniel, Job, Judges, Numbers 🟪 Words pronounced "Sh" without an "Sh": Sean, Siobahn, sugar, sure Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #667, which had a difficulty rating of 1.8 out of 5, according to the Connections Companion. I don't know why but the sub-2 rated puzzles I never guess which category is which color correctly. They are all yellow at a certain point. And yet, I went down the line. Which is largely due to how I play where I let categories come to me. I don't really try to specify purple first. I play this game with vibes, which probably isn't how you're supposed to do it. Poke and jab stuck out to me first, and then we picked up pierce and jab. Copy, negative and over shifted almost on top of each other, so I looked around for another radio term and found roger. If you don't follow Christianity or Judaism, the blue category might be a little harder with books from the first testament. These were Daniel, Job, Judges and Numbers. And we wrapped it up with words that have an "sh" sound when pronounced not when spelled: Sean, Siobahn, sugar and sure. 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. 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