Find the links between the words to win today’s game of Connections.
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Looking for Monday’s NYT Connections hints and answers? You can find them here:
ForbesNYT ‘Connections’ Today: Hints And Answers For Monday, March 10By Kris HoltHey, everyone! I hope your week is off to a great start.
After a rough day last week, I knew the exact tonic that I needed: a silly comedy movie. I opted for one I hadn’t seen in many years, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, after recalling a Dr. Evil joke a few days before.
It’s not quite as funny as I remember it being and there are certainly some problematic aspects (Will Ferrell’s character, yikes). But it was still a fun distraction at a time that I really needed one. Knowing what we need and when to allow ourselves to have it can make all the difference in the world.
Before we begin, I’ve set up a discussion group for NYT 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 since I don’t look at the comments or Twitter much.
Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, March 11, 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…
- PHONE
- BREAK
- FOOTBALL
- LEGEND
- SADDLE
- KEYS
- BELL
- WALLET
- ALTERNATIVE
- KING
- WONDER
- CHANGE
- MOCCASINS
- INTERCOM
- DEPARTURE
- ALARM
And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:
- Yellow group — not the same as usual
- Green group — like a clock or, perhaps, your ears after a loud concert
- Blue group — ironically, things you probably don’t want to hide
- Purple group — ivory tinklers
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 — variation from the norm
- Green group — things that ring
- Blue group — things traditionally made of leather
- Purple group — singer-songwriter pianists
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 — variation from the norm (ALTERNATIVE, BREAK, CHANGE, DEPARTURE)
- Green group — things that ring (ALARM, BELL, INTERCOM, PHONE)
- Blue group — things traditionally made of leather (FOOTBALL, MOCCASINS, SADDLE, WALLET)
- Purple group — singer-songwriter pianists (KEYS, KING, LEGEND, WONDER)
Hey, that’s my first perfect game in quite a while! My overall streak is now up to 14 wins. Here’s how I fared:
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At first, I thought there might be something to KEYS, PHONE and WALLET as in things you wouldn’t normally leave home without. But that seemed a bit nebulous for a Connections group. I didn’t see what could go with those anyway.
However, I quickly realized that the greens slotted together nicely, which got me my first group of the day.
I was truly stumped after that though. This was one of those games where I had to hit the shuffle button a few times and when nothing still made sense to me, I had to walk away for a bit and come back to the grid with fresh eyes.
As I looked at KING and LEGEND, I wondered if they might be a part of a group of people who are venerated in a certain field. After scooting around to see what might go with them, WONDER caught my eye and the purples clicked.
They refer to Alicia KEYS, Ben E. KING, John LEGEND and Stevie WONDER.
From there, I spotted the blues thanks to MOCCASINS opening the door. That left the yellows for victory.
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 Wednesday’s game if you need them.
P.S. Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me” is an all-timer. I wager that you know it already, but it still has to be my recommendation for today. It’s a truly beautiful song:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Call someone you love!
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