Today's Connections Hints & Answers For April 11, 2024 (Puzzle #304)

Thursday is here and the word selection for today has a few mismatched choices that could throw you off the real category scents. The overall game shouldn't be too difficult to solve for most as the choices cover a broad selection of topics.

One of the best ways to start a game of is to use the shuffle button provided by the game. This mixes all the words up and stops the game from forcing fake connections by putting them next to each other. It's easy to jump at the first thing and waste an attempt. is a slow game, there is no timer and it should be completed with a thoughtful process.

Before we just jump into the answers for today's puzzle, we wanted to provide the daily categories. If you're having just a little bit of trouble, knowing one of these could put you right over the edge into Win-Town.

HAIRCUTS WITH «CUT»

MEASURING INSTRUMENTS

WATER AND GAS CONDUITS

FAST FOOD MASCOTS

HAIRCUTS WITH «CUT»

BOWL

BUZZ

CREW

PIXIE

There was a tricky pirate-theme trying to sneak its way into today's game with certain word combinations. CREW, COMPASS, and MERMAID all lost us an attempt as we tried to make that work. It wasn't until we separated out PIXIE and BUZZ that we saw the yellow category for what it was. It wasn't a fast score, but we were still successful in it.

MEASURING INSTRUMENTS

COMPASS

RULER

SCALE

WATCH

Once CREW was removed it didn't take long to see COMPASS matching nicely with SCALE. This led us right into our second win of the day, the green category. Our brains kept insisting that RULER should match with KING or COLONEL, but after another failed attempt we finally let that go.

WATER AND GAS CONDUITS

CHANNEL

MAIN

LINE

PIPE

The blue category was our leftovers for the day. PIPE and CHANNEL make sense here as starters but it wasn't something we had to worry about.

FAST FOOD MASCOTS

CLOWN

COLONEL

KING

MERMAID

Purple was our third score for the day and this was a fun one! CLOWN and KING ended up being the catalysts for this grouping,