HIGHLIGHTS
- Hank in Today’s NYT Connections referred to Hank Williams, the late American singer and songwriter known for hits like Hey Good Lookin’ and Your Cheatin’ Heart.
- Lark, on the other hand, meant making unpredictable decisions or actions. The word fell in the “Caprice” group.
- Caprice, ILK, Williamses, and “Words Pronounced Differently as Proper Nouns,” are the four categories in today’s game.
It’s Day 661 of NYT Connections, and thankfully, it has a word grid, unlike yesterday’s one, which many players struggled with.
Even though today’s Difficulty is just 2.8, it was certainly not as easy as expected.
With a few tricky words like Hank, Whim, Lark, and Venus, it did require a few minutes and a couple of lives to sort the game out.
Hints And Answers In Today’s NYT Connections (April 2, 2025)
I started today’s game with the words Kind, Like, Sort, and Type, as they felt like particular types. In fact, the green group was ILK.
For my next pick, I expected the yellow group to be easy; unfortunately, it took me a while to get it done.
The next set of words I chose after making a mistake were Whim, Lark, Impulse, and Fancy. All those words referred to Caprice, which represents unpredictable ideas or behavior.
With just eight words remaining in the Today’s Connections, the game was definitely getting hard, but I only needed to create another group to complete the puzzle, considering you can just select the remaining four at the end.
Hank And Venus Meaning In NYT Connections
Just after starting the game, I initially thought Hank could be part of the Group related to Breaking Bad. Maybe you thought so as well.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find other related words, but I still got the third group, Williamses, after losing a life.
Venus (Former world number one tennis player and Serena William’s sister) and Robin Williams (Late Actor and Comedian) helped me initially get into the third group.
Whereas, Hank (American singer-songwriter) and Tennessee Williams (American Playright and Screen writer) were lucky guesses, as no other words seemed to be relevant with people’s names.
Lastly, only four words remained—Herb, Job, Nice, and Reading. Figuring out the group name was tricky, so I simply selected them all to get the answer.
The Purple group’s name was “Words Pronounced Differently As Proper Nouns.” The answer may be a bit confusing for many, but if you analyze the words deeply you would know.
Herb is pronounced as Erb in USA and with H as well in British English. Up next, Job is pronounced exactly the way it is in daily usage, whereas you would hear the word as “Johb” in Biblical Figures.
If you take the example of Reading, it’s pronounced exactly the way it is when saying, “He is reading a Novel,” However, if you take the example of Reading, a Town in England, it’s pronounced as “Redding.”
Lastly, Nice is also pronounced differently (Neece) in the context of France than in normal day-to-day usage. It is located on the French Riviera.
If you are done with today’s puzzle, you can see the complete answer list below.
- Caprice (Yellow): Fancy, Impulse, Lark, Whim
- ILK (Green): Kind, Like, Sort, Type
- Williamses (Blue): Hank, Robin, Tennessee, Venus
- Words Pronounced Differently As Proper Nouns (Purple): Herb, Job, Nice, Reading
