Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers for April 21, #680

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The Connections puzzle often includes shapes, but there’s a real doozy of a shape in today’s purple category. Look for words that are all the same unusual shape, and you’ll be on your way to solving it. 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.

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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: Let’s eat.

Green group hint: Did not see that coming!

Blue group hint: Microsoft Excel.

Purple group hint: Unusual shape with a tie to science.