If you’re struggling with the NY connection, then here is a helping hand for you with hints, strategies, and patterns. The connection puzzle today is a total mental rollercoaster, as some contain “pronunciation” similarities whereas others have “lingos heard on a walkie-talkie.” We are here to help you with all the 8th April connection puzzles. Here we have hints, using which you can solve today’s puzzle. But if you want the solutions directly, then too, we’ve got you covered.
The connection was started in 2023, and since then it has hooked the users online. The popularity of this puzzle game has increased immensely day by day. The New York Times has other games too, and all these games you can access on the All Times platform, NYTimes.com/games/connection.
What is the NYT “Connection”?
It’s a word puzzle game, where they give you 16 words in a 4×4 grid. The words are divided into four sets; each set has a common theme or some similarity that connects them. You have to identify the four words that belong to the same set/theme. For example, if there are 16 words and among them, you see Apple, Banana, Pineapple, and Grapes, then you have an idea that they all have something in common.
After you select your four words, you will have to hit submit, and if it’s correct, then all the selected words will vanish from your screen, and then you will be left with the other 12 words. Similarly, you have to identify all four sets of words.
The groups/sets of words also have difficulty levels, which are denoted by a particular color. Yellow is the easiest, then comes green, blue, and lastly, the trickiest, purple. To identify all the correct four sets, you will be given 4 chances, and after that, the game will be over.
What does today’s Connection look like?

Image: New York Times
The hints for today’s Connection, April 8th
Yellow: To puncture or to prick someone
Green: Lingo used on walkie-talkie/radio stations
Blue: Can be found in the Old Testament books.
Purple: Spelled a bit differently than their actual pronunciation.
Solution for April 8th Connection
PRICK (Yellow)
JAB, PIERCE, POKE, STICK
RADIO LINGO (Green)
COPY, NEGATIVE, OVER, ROGER
OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS (Blue)
DANIEL, JOB, JUDGES, NUMBERS
WORDS PRONOUNCED “SH” WITHOUT AN “SH” (Purple)
SEAN, SIOBHAN, SUGAR, SURE

Image: New York Times
