Find the links between the words to win today’s game of Connections.
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Looking for Sunday’s Connections hints and answers instead? You can find them here:
ForbesNYT ‘Connections’ Today: Hints And Answers For Sunday, March 2By Kris HoltHey, folks! Welcome to the start of a new week. I hope you’re well rested and raring to go.
I’m going to try to make it a point to give you an upbeat song at the top of the column every Monday to help you shake off the cobwebs, dance it out, and (hopefully) put a smile on your face.
This week, I’d like you to check out Daft Punk’s new single “Get Lucky” if you get the chance. Sound of the summer. (This is a bit.)
But instead of the original, which remains an utterly brilliant song, this time around let’s go with a fun cover by New York Brass Band, who are from, erm, England:
Yep, that’s put me in a good mood.
Before we begin, I’ve set up a discussion group for Connections and this column on Discord. We have a great little community over there and we chat about more than NYT games. Everyone who has joined has been lovely. It’s a fun hangout spot.
It’s also the best way to give me any feedback about the column, especially on the rare(!) occasions that I mess something up.
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, March 3, are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT website or Games app.
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 items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.
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 usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.
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. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.
If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication’s Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.
Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my hints for each grid via Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.
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…
- LEAF
- LOAF
- ROLL
- BONE
- SCROLL
- BAR
- DINOSAUR
- LOUNGE
- CLUB
- BOLT
- COIN
- REEL
- CHILL
- NUGGET
- RUBBLE
- REST
And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:
- Yellow group — take it easy
- Green group —
- Blue group — let’s go round again
- Purple group — like news etched into stone tablets and sundial wristwatches
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s Connections groups are…
- Yellow group — be at leisure
- Green group — formats of gold
- Blue group — cylinder of material
- Purple group — seen in The Flintstones
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 — be at leisure (CHILL, LOAF, LOUNGE, REST)
- Green group — formats of gold (BAR, COIN, LEAF, NUGGET)
- Blue group — cylinder of material (BOLT, REEL, ROLL, SCROLL)
- Purple group — seen in The Flintstones (BONE, CLUB, DINOSAUR, RUBBLE)
Yabba dabba doo! A perfect game brought me up to six wins in a row. Here’s how I fared:
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I had no trouble at all with this one. Spotting NUGGET and COIN close to each other led me toward the greens. That clue was a little easy, but I couldn’t resist.
Oddly enough, I had an inkling about the purples from BONE and RUBBLE before I considered that DINOSAUR made total sense to go with them.
The grid was then very kind to me as it placed the blues and yellows on separate rows. I identified them both at the same time, I guess!
I didn’t really consider any red herrings this time. Maybe there were some, but I’m trying to look forward, not backward. (Seriously, I didn’t spot any at all today.)
That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Tuesday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I used to watch The Flintstones all the time as a kid. Even some 30 years after the original series came to an end in the ’60s, it was always on TV, either on one of the regular channels or (I think) Cartoon Network.
It’s been a long time since I’ve watched the show and I’m sure there are parts of it that don’t hold up particularly well. But that theme song will remain buried in my skull for the rest of my life. It’s an all-time great TV theme song. The version at the end of each episode was terrific too:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Call someone you love!
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