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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Wednesday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, March 26 (game #654).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.
What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc’s Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (game #655) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- PHONE
- SWAY
- SCRATCH
- WAVE
- RIGHT
- CHIP
- PAPER
- DING
- CORRECT
- SCOPE
- TOUCH
- GREEN
- MOVE
- BINGO
- CHANGE
- REACH
NYT Connections today (game #655) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Get through to someone
- GREEN: Affirmative
- BLUE: Cash talk
- PURPLE: Begin with a word that reduces things
Need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections today (game #655) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: AFFECT
- GREEN: YOU GOT IT!
- BLUE: SLANG FOR MONEY
- PURPLE: OBJECTS WITH THE PREFIX “MICRO-”
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #655) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #655, are…
- YELLOW: AFFECT MOVE, REACH, SWAY, TOUCH
- GREEN: YOU GOT IT! BINGO, CORRECT, DING, RIGHT
- BLUE: SLANG FOR MONEY CHANGE, GREEN, PAPER, SCRATCH
- PURPLE: OBJECTS WITH THE PREFIX “MICRO-” CHIP, PHONE, SCOPE, WAVE
- My rating: Hard
- My score: Fail
I crashed out today after finally only getting the yellow group following a series of failed guesses.
First I thought we were looking for words that describe minor car accidents — SCRATCH, DING, CHIP, TOUCH. I know “touch” may sound extreme, but my car door recently touched another car door in a parking lot and it escalated very rapidly.
After exhausting that possibility I thought “things you do with your hands” made sense, so I grouped together touch, REACH, scratch, and WAVE, again getting the dreaded “groups of four” warning.
My last failed mission was “_card” with GREEN, PHONE, BINGO and scratch all making sense to me.
Had I survived, the blue group would have gone over my head, but I think I would have got OBJECTS WITH THE PREFIX “MICRO” eventually.
How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Wednesday, 26 March, game #654)
- YELLOW: PARTS OF A TABLE SETTING FORK, GLASS, NAPKIN, PLATE
- GREEN: INCREASED, WITH “UP” FLEW, ROSE, SHOT, THRUST
- BLUE: KINDS OF DIGITAL STORAGE CARD, CLOUD, DISK, DRIVE
- PURPLE: UNITS OF VOLUME PLUS LETTER BOUNCE, GALLEON, PINOT, QUARTZ
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final one, as you’ll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It’s a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It’s playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
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