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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 Thursday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, March 27 (game #655).
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 #656) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- CHUCK
- MONTY
- BRACKET
- CITY
- SKIRT
- PITCH
- FLANK
- BADGE
- STUDY
- SASH
- SLING
- BOOKEND
- SURROUND
- BINGO
- BERET
- PELT
NYT Connections today (game #656) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Fling something
- GREEN: Left and right
- BLUE: “Do a good turn daily”
- PURPLE: Add a roomy word that rhymes with “wall”
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 #656) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: HURL
- GREEN: BE ON BOTH SIDES OF
- BLUE: PARTS OF A CLASSIC GIRL SCOUT UNIFORM
- PURPLE: __HALL
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #656) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #656, are…
- YELLOW: HURL CHUCK, PELT, PITCH, SLING
- GREEN: BE ON BOTH SIDES OF BOOKEND, BRACKET, FLANK, SURROUND
- BLUE: PARTS OF A CLASSIC GIRL SCOUT UNIFORM BADGE, BERET, SASH, SKIRT
- PURPLE: __HALL BINGO, CITY, MONTY, STUDY
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 2 mistakes
I got the yellow and green groups mixed up today after convincing myself that the words had something to do with medieval battles — I was thinking PITCH being poured through castle devil holes and soldiers being PELTed with arrows with their army SURROUNDed.
After getting “one away” after my second failed guess, I finally saw the light and a far more straightforward group of throwing words.
I was convinced that the link between BINGO, CITY and STUDY was __ HALL, but took a chance on MONTY — although I should have got it as the Monty Hall Problem, a brain teaser named after the TV legend, was a dumbfounding Connections category back in January (car, goat, door, host).
How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Thursday, 27 March, game #655)
- 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
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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