Today's Connections Hints & Answers For April 2, 2024 (Puzzle #295)

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Tuesday has never been the most exciting day, but at least we get new to solve. Today's categories are a nice mix of niche topics that most people should be able to solve, but there's always a chance you could get stuck on some matches that just don't match-up.

One of the best strategies for playing is to utilize the 'shuffle' button right away. Oftentimes the game will try to trick your brain by putting incorrect word groupings next to each other so you waste an attempt or two trying to make them work. The shuffle button will immediately remove those specifically-placed words and can help you avoid such situations.

Before we just completely spoil the daily answers we wanted to provide a few hints in the form of today's categories. These are in order of most-straightforward to trickiest based on the game's own information page.

THRUST

KINDS OF SNAKES

SEEN IN “CINDERELLA”

PASTA SHAPES

THRUST

JAB

POKE

PROD

STICK

A POKE, a JAB, a PROD, and a STICK all have a really obvious connection with each other. They also didn't really match up with any other words in today's game which made the yellow category a quick and easy win for us.

KINDS OF SNAKES

ADDER

MAMBA

BOA

MOCCASIN

ADDER and MAMBA had us a bit confused in today's game as we thought there was some sort of fill-in-the-blank with «Black ___.» Black ADDER being an old British sitcom, Black MAMBA is a type of snake, and Black BOWTIE might have fit in there as well. Luckily we couldn't find a fourth word so we didn't waste any attempts and quickly noticed BOA and and MOCCASIN were also snakes.

We had no idea there was a snake called ADDER, after looking it up we became quick fans. They have some of the coolest-looking designs along their backs and are the UK’s only venomous snake. So I guess we were right about the British connection.

SEEN IN “CINDERELLA”

BALL

PRINCE

PUMPKIN

SLIPPER

The blue category immediately jumped out at us today and was the first for us to score. I have two daughters and have seen