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A new new Connections puzzle appears at midnight every day for your time zone – which means some people always play ‘Today’s Games’ while others play ‘yesterday’s’. If you are looking for Friday’s puzzle instead Then click here: New -Connections Tip and Response to Friday 28 March (Game #656).
Good morning! Let’s play connections, News Smart Wordpan that challenges you to group answers into different categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need connections tips.
What are you going to do when you are done? Why, play some more word games of course. I also got daily strict tips and answers and quordle tips and answer articles if you also need help with them, while Marc’s Wordle Today page covers the original viral Word game.
Spoiler Warning: Information on new connections Today is below, so do not read on if you do not want to know the answers.
New -Connections Today (Play #657) – The Word of the Today
Today’s new connections are …
- SILVER
- Bicycle
- BOXER
- Panama
- Bermuda
- KEY
- MAN
- Commando
- CRYSTAL
- Brazil
- WITNESS
- CHINA
- LEVEL
- CARGO
- LINEN
- CHANNEL
New Connections Today (Game #657) – Tip No. 1 – Group Tip
What are some clues for today’s new connection groups?
- YELLOW: Setting the upper class table
- GREEN: Sorts of summer clothing
- BLUE: A legendary game on words
- Purple: Large screen hits from the 1980s
Need more clues?
We are fixed on spoiler territory now, but read on whether you want to know what the four theme answers are to today’s new connections puzzle …
New Connections Today (Game #657) – Tip No. 2 – Group Response
What are the answers to today’s new connection groups?
- Yellow: Materials associated with fancy eating
- Green: kind of shorts
- Blue: nouns in a famous palindrome
- Purple: Movies from 1985
Right, the answers are below, so no longer roll if you don’t want to see them.
New -Connections Today (Play #657) – The answers
The answers to today’s connections, game #657, is …
- Yellow: Materials associated with fancy eating China, crystal, linen, silver
- Green: kind of shorts Bermuda, bike, boxer, load
- Blue: nouns in a famous palindrome Channel, man, Panama, plan
- Purple: Movies from 1985 Brazil, clues, command, witness
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 1 Error
I mixed through today with just a mistake. It came when I put linen instead of load (which I consider a full leg length clothes) in kinds of shorts.
The rest, I got away with not really knowing what I did – China, crystal, linen and silver as they were all expensive materials; Canal, man, Panama and plans because they all had “one” in them.
The famous Palindrome in doubt (a man, a plan, a channel – Panama!) Was minted in a 1948 edition of Notes & queries The magazine, even if it is under dispute, as some googling reveals.
In the 1980s, other items were added by Wordsmiths, including a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam and a hat. Next came a computer programmer with a version with 243 words. But then, where he put the seal on any future audits, computer scientist Peter Norvig created his final 2,473 Word Panama Palindrome. I can only imagine the crushing feeling of disappointment as he went over 2,002 words.
How did you do today? Tell me that in the comments below.
Yesterday’s New -Connections Reply (Friday, March 28, Games #656)
- 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, frame, skirt
- Purple: __Hall Bingo, City, Monty, Study
What are new connections?
New Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four objects that share something in common, and each group has another level of difficulty: green is light, yellow a little harder, blue often quite hard and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you do not have to technically solve the last one, as you can answer one by an elimination process. In addition, you can make up to four errors, giving you a little bit of breathing room.
However, it is a little more involved than something like Wordle, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to get up with tricks. For example, be careful on gay and other word games that can hide the answers.
It can be played free of charge via the new Games website on desktop or mobile.
