NYT Connections Hints Today (#1026)—Answers for Thursday, April 2

It’s time for yet another NYT Connections sweep, and you’ll be happy to know that I’m back with the best tips and solutions you can find anywhere online. If you’re eager to solve today’s NYT Connections puzzle as quickly as possible, you’ll want to scroll down and find the answers you need to do just that.

It’s almost the end of another week, but hopefully, today won’t mark the end of your NYT Connections streak!

How to Play NYT Connections

In June 2023, NYT Connections emerged as yet another game in the ever-growing lineup of the New York Times titles. This title soared immediately, and it’s easy to see why. As a free-to-play, accessible New York Times game, NYT Connections is available worldwide and can be played on desktop devices or in a mobile app.

But how do you play NYT Connections?

The NYT team will provide you with a grid of 16 words once a day. The only task left up to you is to sort those words into four groups of four by finding their commonalities. Every NYT Connections puzzle has just one solution, and some words can have double meanings, so it can sometimes be tricky to figure out the answers.

It’s also important to stress that the words are color-coded: yellow, blue, green, and purple. That’s in order of difficulty, from least to most.

What’s critical here is that you get four guesses every day, and if you use those, your NYT Connections answers for today will be out of reach, as it’ll be game over.

Today’s NYT Connections Hints (April 2)

Here are the words from today’s NYT Connections puzzle:

• STALLION
• CHAMPION
• SECOND
• CHANCE
• MIGOS
• MOMENT
• BACK
• CARDI
• DRAKE
• EATER
• OPENING
• ENDORSE
• WINDOW
• BUCK
• MESON
• DRONE

And here are the hints I can offer for today’s NYT Connections:

• Yellow – Words you’d associate with supporting something
• Green – You might seize these as opportunities
• Blue – Masculine names for animals
• Purple – The latter half of classic alcohol brands

Here’s the final warning before we get to the NYT Connections answers for today, April 2:

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NYT Connections Answers Explained for Today, April 2 (#1026)

If you want to jump straight to the answers for today’s NYT Connections puzzle, I’ve got you covered:

• Yellow – BACK, CHAMPION, ENDORSE, SECOND
• Green – CHANCE, MOMENT, OPENING, WINDOW
• Blue – BUCK, DRAKE, DRONE, STALLION
• Purple – CARDI, EATER, MESON, MIGOS

When Does NYT Connections Reset?

That’s today’s puzzle, but if you want the next one, the game resets daily at midnight local time (that’s your local time). You’ll have 24 hours to complete the puzzle when midnight ticks over in your timezone.

How did you do? Did you get a perfect run? Let me know what your streak looks like on the Insider Gaming Discord server