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A new NEW Connections puzzle pops up at midnight every day for your time zone – meaning some people are always playing “today’s game” while others are playing “yesterday’s”. If you’re looking for Friday’s puzzle instead then click here: NEW Connections Hints and Answers for Friday March 20 (Game #1013).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers into different categories. It can be difficult, so read on if you need Connections tips.
SPOILER ALERT: Today’s NYT Connections information is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
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NEW Connections today (game #1014) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- POUND
- COMMON
- OBJECT
- CROWN
- SKIP
- MARK
- OPEN
- RICH
- GOAL
- JUST
- POINT
- BISHOP
- KING
- STUMP
- FROST
- CAPTURE
NEW Connections today (game #1014) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Actually
- GREEN: Aims and objectives
- BLUE: Draft
- PURPLE: American wordsmiths
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…
NEW Connections today (game #1014) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: DIRECT
- GREEN: TARGET
- BLUE: CHECKERS TERMS
- PURPLE: 20th century American poets
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #1014) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #1014, are…
- YELLOW: DIRECT BLUNT, FRANK, PLAIN, STRAIGHT
- GREEN: TARGET TARGET, MARK, OBJECT, POINT
- BLUE: CHECKERS TERMS CATCH, CROWN, JUMP, KING
- PURPLE: 20th century American poets BISHOP, FROST, POUND, RICH
- My assessment: Hard
- My score: 1 error
It’s the second day in a row that I’ve solved the four groups in yellow-green-blue-purple difficulty – which is the second most satisfying sequence after getting purple first.
My mistake came near the end when I tricked myself into thinking we were collecting something to do with chess rather than something to do with CHECKERS TERMS – so I had BISHOP instead of JUMP.
CHECKERS brings back happy memories for me as it is a game I used to play with my grandfather and one where he would never let me win; I would consider it victory just to get a single KING. It was then, I think, that I first decided that in every loss there is still a little victory somewhere, you just have to find it.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Friday, March 20, Game #1013)
- YELLOW: DISTURB ALARM, CONCERN, RALLY, SHAKE
- GREEN: WORDS ON A MONOPOLY BOARD BOARDWALK, CHANCE, LUXURY, PARKING
- BLUE: FIGURE IN GREEK MYTH FATE, FURY, MUSE, SIRENS
- PURPLE: EGG ____ CARDBOARD, NOODLE, ROLL, TIMER
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four elements that share something in common, and each group has a different degree of difficulty: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough, and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you technically don’t need to solve the last one, as you’ll be able to answer it by a process of elimination. Also, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It’s a bit more involved than something like Wordle, though, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to let you beat yourself up with tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other puns that can hide the answers.
It can be played for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
