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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 Tuesday’s puzzle instead Then click here: New -Connections Tip and Response to Tuesday March 11 (Game #639).
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 #640) – The Word of the Today
Today’s new connections are …
- ORANGE
- KETCHUP
- Elmo
- COTTON
- SUGAR
- EYE
- ROSE
- MONTH
- Egg
- CUT
- Purple
- BUTTER
- FLOUR
- Cardinal
- John
- SILVER
New Connections Today (Game #640) – Tip No. 1 – Group Tip
What are some clues for today’s new connection groups?
- YELLOW: Ready, stable, back
- GREEN: A color in common
- BLUE: Impossible verse
- Purple: LINK RIM WITH “DANDY”
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 #640) – Tip No. 2 – Group Product
What are the answers to today’s new connection groups?
- Yellow: Ingredients in Classic Pound Cake
- Green: Things that are red
- Blue: Words that are said to have no exact rhyme
- Purple: Candy
Right, the answers are below, so no longer roll if you don’t want to see them.
New -Connections Today (Play #640) – The answers
The answers to today’s connections, games #640, are …
- Yellow: Ingredients in Classic Pound Cake Butter, eggs, flour, sugar
- Green: Things that are red Cardinal, Elmo, Ketchup, Rose
- Blue: Words that are said to have no exact rhyme Month, orange, purple, silver
- Purple: Candy Cotton, Eye, John, Rock
- My rating: Moderate
- My score: 1 Error
Today’s puzzle took me down a nostalgia rabbit hole and gave me munchies.
My two blind alleys first thought that I was looking for pirates, and then thought there was a group connected to classic rock actions Elton John and Deep Purple, which I gave up for randomly adding silver and rock to that list and wasting a guess.
John and Silver also made me think of fish and chips – thanks to Long John Silver’s restaurants – something that is never far from my thoughts.
The key that unlocked all four groups was cardinal. The texts “Cardinal Landing in the Dogwood” from Old friends At Pinegrove jumped into my head, I remembered that they are red, and ketchup is red and from there everything fell into place and I NEED my way home without another mistake – though I thought that butter, eggs, flour and sugar were a referral to pancakes rather than pound cake.
How did you do today? Tell me that in the comments below.
Yesterday’s new -connections answer (Tuesday 11 March, Game #639)
- Yellow: Variation from the norm Alternative, break, change, departure
- Green: Things that call Alarm, Bell, Intercom, Phone
- Blue: Things traditionally made of leather Football, moccasins, saddle, wallet
- Purple: Singer-Songwriter Pianists Keys, king, legend, wonder
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.
