There were emoji where the words should be. This, of course, is a bit of April Fools' Day fun from the NYT's games editors. Connections usually has 16 words in little tiles. Players place the ...

The blue group was “horror movies” and the purple group was “letter homophones”. From the game’s answers, the bread, bacon, lettuce, and cheese emoji ... weren’t amused by the trick ...

When Higgins tweeted Tuesday night for the first time in two weeks, it was just an emoji of a blue cap. What did it mean? Nobody knew, but the tweet had more than 500 replies within 20 minutes.