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Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for April 14, #673

Hints and answers for Connections for April 14, #673.

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Today’s Connections puzzle contains a hilarious category for me and my fellow Gen Xers. I’ve co-written two books about Gen X pop culture, Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? and The Totally Sweet ’90s, and this category is in the first book. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.

The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.

Read more: Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time

Hints for today’s Connections groups

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group, to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group hint: No, no, no.

Green group hint: Enjoy the show.

Blue group hint: Can you make it to Oregon?

Purple group hint: Not Nixon, but …

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow group: Restrict.

Green group: Ticketed events.

Blue group: Associated with the game The Oregon Trail.

Purple group: What «Ford» might refer to.

Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words

What are today’s Connections answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is restrict. The four answers are block, check, dam and stop.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is ticketed events. The four answers are concert, game, movie and play.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is associated with the game The Oregon Trail. The four answers are dysentery, ford, hunt and oxen.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is what «Ford» might refer to. The four answers are actor, car, director and president.

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Apple Will Reportedly Give You a Discount on Accessories if You Recycle Your Old Electronics

The Earth Day promotion could net shoppers 10% off a suite of accessories for one month.

Apple is starting an in-store electronics recycling promotion for one month that can net consumers 10% off of Apple accessories, according to a post Tuesday by Mark Gurman of Bloomberg. The maximum discount offered will be $20, and it will be applicable to AirPods, AirTags, Apple Pencils, Apple Watch bands, and MacBook cases and peripherals.

While Apple customers generally benefit from trading in used electronics for store credit, many items are ineligible for this program. Typically, a single device can be traded in for credit toward a new one, and additional iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watches and other Apple devices can be exchanged for an Apple gift card. Non-Apple electronics cannot be exchanged for store credit.

The new Earth Day promotion reportedly makes all used electronics — even the otherwise uncompensated non-Apple electronics — viable to trade-in for the $20 Apple accessory discount, which would make this a great time to bring in recyclable electronics you wouldn’t otherwise be rewarded for.

Apple’s trade-in program is offered in-store and online as a clean and easy way to recycle old electronics. While Apple doesn’t give store credit for every item, the company recycles them free of charge. If Apple is offering a discount on its peripherals for trading in non-Apple electronics, it could be using this promotion to bring new customers into its product ecosystem.

Apple rarely discounts its accessories outside of Black Friday events, making this a rare opportunity to score a peripheral for less cash. It is unclear whether this is a US-based promotion or if it will run in Apple Stores internationally. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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EV Sales Increased by More Than 10% in the US Despite Tesla Sales Dropping

The surge in electric-vehicle sales comes at the start of what experts predict will be a volatile year for the market.

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Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for April 15, #408

Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle No. 408 for April 15.

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Todays NYT Strands puzzle might be tricky, but it has a fun topic. Get yourself a frosty beverage and solve away. If you need hints and answers, read on.

I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. 

If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.

Read more: NYT Connections Turns 1: These Are the 5 Toughest Puzzles So Far

Hint for today’s Strands puzzle

Today’s Strands theme is: Draft picks

If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Cheers!

Clue words to unlock in-game hints

Your goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle’s theme. If you’re stuck, find any words you can. Every time you find three words of four letters or more, Strands will reveal one of the theme words. These are the words I used to get those hints, but any words of four or more letters that you find will work:

  • MICE, POTS, STOP, TOTS, PORE, PORES, TORE, TOTE, TOUT, REGAL, RICE, SORE, RICES.

Answers for today’s Strands puzzle

These are the answers that tie into the theme. The goal of the puzzle is to find them all, including the spangram, a theme word that reaches from one side of the puzzle to the other. When you’ve got all of them (I originally thought there were always eight but learned that the number can vary), every letter on the board will be used. Here are the nonspangram answers:

  • BOCK, SOUR, LAGER, NITRO, STOUT, PILSNER

Today’s Strands spangram

Today’s Strands spangram is MICROBREWERY. To find it, start with the M that’s three letters up from the bottom on the far left row, and wind over and up.

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