Today's Connections Hints & Answers For April 27, 2024 (Puzzle #320)

April 27th has some brand new for you to solve and even though the categories aren't too difficult in today's game, we still scored a loss. Sometimes your brain just gets too hung up on incorrect matches and next thing you know all the attempts have been spent. But that's okay, every loss is a learning experience, and we'll come back tomorrow better than ever.

One of the better tips for solving a Connections puzzle is to simply slow down. Sometimes, like we did today, you get so excited trying to score a category that doesn't exist. Taking time, and focusing on the actual connections between the words, could mean the difference between a win and a loss. Another option is to just read below and cheat, it's cool, we won't tell anyone.

Before we fully spoil today's answers we wanted to provide the categories as a form of hint. Sometimes just knowing what is expected can help you match up the right words.

TRUST AS REAL

POWER ISSUES

SUMMARY

NAME HOMOPHONES

TRUST AS REAL

ACCEPT

BELIEVE

BUY

SWALLOW

We did score the yellow category today as our first win, but not before wasting an attempt or two trying to make DIGEST and SWALLOW work. After we accepted that failure, we saw the proper connection starting with BELIEVE and ACCEPT. The other two fell into place quickly.

POWER ISSUES

OUTAGE

SHORT

SPIKE

SURGE

Another category in the win column for us today was the green category. We scored this second and it was a fairly easy mix of things. OUTAGE and SURGE were the first two words that caught our eye, followed quickly by SPIKE. SHORT didn't take long after, but we did waste another attempt trying to match SHORT with BRIEF.

SUMMARY

ABSTRACT

BRIEF

DIGEST

OUTLINE

We sadly didn't get to score the blue, or purple, categories today and just ended up wasting our last few attempts on incorrect threads. Summary is a good category though and I suppose if we knew what was expected we could have scored a bit better here.

NAME HOMOPHONES

CURT

HAIRY

KNEEL

WANE

Yo