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Hey there, everyone! I hope you had a fantastic weekend and that you’re raring to go for this first full week of March. Let’s make sure we can keep your Connections streak going.
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
In Connections, you’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like horror movie franchises, a type of verb or rappers.
There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is typically the hardest one to deduce. The purple group often involves wordplay, so bear that in mind.
Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.
If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers.
What Are Today’s Connections Hints?
Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.
Today’s 16 words are:
- FELLOW
- SPY
- PEEP
- BIRTHMARK
- STUDY
- ANIMAL
- PEER
- UNIT
- BUNNY
- HALL
- ASSOCIATE
- EGG
- LOUNGE
- JELLY BEAN
- LIBRARY
- PARTNER
And the hints for today’s groups are:
- Yellow group — areas of a popular board game
- Green group — coworker
- Blue group — spotted during a religious festival that takes place each spring
- Purple group — possible meanings for a certain word, including a small, subterranean mammal
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s groups are…
- Yellow group — rooms in the game Clue
- Green group — colleague
- Blue group — seen during Easter
- Purple group — what a mole can be
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections answers are…
- Yellow group — rooms in the game Clue (HALL, LIBRARY, LOUNGE, STUDY)
- Green group — colleague (ASSOCIATE, FELLOW, PARTNER, PEER)
- Blue group — seen during Easter (BUNNY, EGG, JELLY BEAN, PEEP)
- Purple group — what a mole can be (ANIMAL, BIRTHMARK, SPY, UNIT)
I have a streak going, but it’s not the kind of streak I’d like. This marked my second straight loss.
I got the greens with ease, followed by the yellows (even if you aren’t familiar with Clue, they’re just rooms of a fancy house). It all fell apart from me after that, though.
I had no idea about the blue or purple connections, so random guesses were my only hope. I wouldn’t necessarily associate JELLY BEAN with Easter — they’re just a common candy to me — and I’m not too familiar with Peeps. I’ve only ever had them once, and I’d associate that word more with making a sound than a candy.
I’d also never heard of a mole as unit of measurement. Perhaps changing this to SAUCE would have made the purples a little easier, even if “mole” would be pronounced differently in that context.
That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Tuesday’s game if you need them.
