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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 6th (Game #999).
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.
NEW Connections today (game #1000) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- ONE
- YOU
- SAND
- [CONNECTIONS LOGO]
- NEW
- DATING APP
- SINGLE
- ROMEO
- BUCK
- ART
- BOUNCY
- AIRPORT
- WHITE
- THEREFORE
- INTERNET CAFE
- DOLLARS
NEW Connections today (game #1000) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Sole unit of currency
- GREEN: Capulet and Montague’s sentence
- BLUE: Goes before a medieval building
- PURPLE: Places of connection
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 #1000) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: $1
- GREEN: “WHY ARE YOU ROMEO?”
- BLUE: WORDS BEFORE “CASTLE”
- PURPLE: WHERE YOU MAY LEAVE A CONNECTION
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #1000) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #1000, are…
- YELLOW: $1 BUCK, DOLLAR, ONE, SINGLE
- GREEN: “WHY ARE YOU ROMEO?” ART, ROMEO, YOU, THEREFORE
- BLUE: WORDS BEFORE “CASTLE” BOUNCY, NEW, SAND, WHITE
- PURPLE: WHERE YOU MIGHT LEAVE A CONNECTION AIRPORT, DATING APP, INTERNET CAFE, THIS GAME
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: Perfect
Happy 1,000th birthday, Connections! Yes, everyone’s favorite daily group-based puzzle is celebrating its big milestone today, and inevitably the NYT marked the occasion with a reference on the board.
It wasn’t all cryptic either with ONE, THOU, SAND and then an image of the Connections logo along the top row.
Resisting the urge to place them together, I instead matched ONE with SINGLE, BUCK, and DOLLAR to make the yellow $1 group. “WHY ARE YOU ROMEO?” was another easy one, not least because WHEREFORE and YOU immediately stood out as archaic words.
I felt like DATING APP and INTERNET CAFE could go together as examples of ‘internet-age stuff’ or similar, but couldn’t think of two other options there, so looked elsewhere.
Instead, I decided that SAND and BOUNCY could be in a group of WORDS BEFORE “CASTLE”, and they were. NEW also made sense, but WHITE remained a mystery to me until I searched afterwards and discovered it’s an American restaurant chain. Thanks for keeping it global, NYT.
I was still a bit confused as to what the remaining purple group would be — WHERE YOU MIGHT MAKE A CONNECTION makes sense in retrospect, though I’m not sure INTERNET CAFE quite fits. And do they even exist these days?
Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Friday, March 6, Game #999)
- YELLOW: FREELOADER LECH, MOOCH, PARASITE, FUNGUS
- GREEN: COVERAGE OF COVERAGE CARPET, COAT, CURTAIN, LAYER
- BLUE: WAYS TO REFER TO # HASH, NUMBER, POUND, SHARP
- PURPLE: WORD FOR LUCIDITY, SINGULAR FACULTY, MARBLE, SENSE, WILD
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.
