Today's Connections Hints & Answers For April 16, 2024 (Puzzle #309)

is a word-matching game that tasks players with aligning sixteen different words into four groups. Each group contains four different words that somehow have a connection between them. This is one of the newer ones that came from the popularity boom and has made a name for itself as one of the most enjoyable one-a-day games.

Oftentimes the game will use little tricks to force players into wasting their attempts. Placing certain words next to each other could have your brain making incorrect connections. Once a theme locks on, even if it's incorrect, it's hard to let go. Luckily, we've provided the category hints below, as well as the fully spoiled answers at the end.

Before we just go and spoil today's answers, we wanted to provide a few hints to help out those who may just need a little push in the right direction.

FLABBERGAST

BIT OF JOURNALISM

ON THE SAME PLANE

THEATER SECTIONS

FLABBERGAST

FLOOR

ROCK

SHOCK

SUPRISE

Today's yellow category was our third to solve, and we were just flabbergasted that it took so long. SHOCK and ROCK were the first connection that we noticed, but that was simply for rhyming reasons. Eventually, with only eight words left, we noticed the trend and nailed in the win.

BIT OF JOURNALISM

ARTICLE

FEATURE

REPORT

STORY

As would be expected, we solved the green category first in today's game. FEATURE and ARTICLE are two words we say, at least, twelve times a day so they stood out to us quite quickly. Attempting to make other connections, STORY came next, and then finally REPORT. A solid start to our day.

ON THE SAME PLANE

EVEN

FLAT

FLUSH

LEVEL

Blue had our leftover words for the day, and there's really no reason why. This isn't a particularly difficult category, we just didn't quite catch on to these words as well as we did the others. EVEN and LEVEL are the obvious attention-grabbers, but all four could be considered starters for this easy connection.

THEATER SECTIONS

BALCONY

BOX

ORCHESTRA

STAGE

Our second score