connections 29 april 2026 arrived with the full solution set for No. 1,052, giving players a way to check a finished grid instead of staring at the last four words. puzzle uses a 16-word board, allows three wrong guesses, and ends after a fourth miss.
For registered Times Games players, the result can feed into progress tracking that records completed puzzles, win rate, perfect scores and win streaks. The Times also runs a Connections Bot, so anyone who wants to compare a solve can do more than just look at the answer grid.
Entreaty and laundry verbs
The entreaty group was appeal, bid, call and request. The laundry day verbs were dry, fold, sort and wash. Those two sets are the kind of cleaner category pairings that reward players who spot common uses rather than chase individual word meanings.
Books, sun and the grid
The other two groups were things that come in books: check, coupon, match and stamp; and sun ____: dial, flower, screen and tan. The puzzle still followed the usual Connections order, with the yellow group generally the easiest to deduce, then blue, green and purple.
April 27, 2026’s No. 1,051 had already set the stage for another daily solve, but No. 1,052 is the one that gives today’s players a complete answer key. Anyone comparing results can now see how the grid broke down and use the same words to track where they stand in the Games system.
