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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight every day for your time zone, which means some people are always playing “today’s game” while others play “yesterday’s game.” If instead you are looking for the Saturday puzzle then click here: NYT Connections Tips & Answers for Saturday, March 7 (Game #1,000).
Good day! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers into various categories. It can be difficult, so read on if you need Connections tips.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections Today (Game #1001): Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- NICE
- NADAL
- ZIPPER
- SELES
- JACKET
- OSAKA
- JAW
- SINNER
- EYE
- pixie
- PHOENIX
- USURPING SETLER
- REFER
- SHAKING
- ROTATOR
- LIME
NYT Connections Today (Game #1001) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some leads for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Places to live
- GREEN: mirror words
- BLUE: Alien or The Bird could be others
- PURPLE: Starting with nothing
Do you need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the answers are to the four topics for today’s NYT Connections riddles…
NYT Connections Today (Game #1001) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: CITIES
- GREEN: PALINDROMES
- BLUE: HORROR MOVIES LESS “S”
- PURPLE: STARTING WITH ARGUMENT FROM ZERO
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #1001): The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #1001 are…
- YELLOW: CITIES LIMA, NICE, OSAKA, PHOENIX
- GREEN: PALINDROMES EYE, REFERENCE, ROTATOR, SELES
- BLUE: HORROR MOVIES LESS “S” GREMLIN, JAW, SINNER, TREMOR
- PURPLE: STARTING WITH ARGUMENT FOR ZERO JACKET, NADAL, SQUATTER, ZIPPER
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 3 mistakes
Today I was surprised by a tennis group, guessing SINNER, NADAL, OSAKA and SELES, but I was wrong. OSAKA is also a city as well as a last name, of course, so I put it with LIMA, NICE and PHOENIX and settled for yellow.
Looking again, I thought I saw a palindromic group: EYE, NADAL, SELES and REFER. And I was right, more or less, because I kept one. But which one? Well, another look at the board showed ROTATOR, so I knew what the extra word was, but I had no idea which of the original four to remove. First I was going to have to solve another group…
I did this by detecting that JAW, SINNER, FEAR, and GREMLIN were all ‘horror movies but one S’, but that didn’t directly help me solve the palindrome group. Then I tried again: NADAL, SELES, ROTATOR and REFER. But it escaped me again. And then I realized my mistake: NADAL is not a palindrome. What an idiot!
So I chose the other four and finally got the green one, leaving only the purple to resolve by default. And what was that? A very clever one: START WITH ARGUMENT FOR ZERO. Phew!
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Saturday, March 7, game #1,000)
- YELLOW: $1 DOLLAR, DOLLAR, ONE, SINGLE
- GREEN: “WHY ARE YOU ROMEO?” ART, ROMEO, YOU, THEREFORE
- BLUE: WORDS BEFORE “CASTLE” Inflatable, NEW, SAND, WHITE
- PURPLE: WHERE YOU COULD MAKE A CONNECTION AIRPORT, DATE APP, INTERNET CAFE, THIS GAME
What are NYT connections?
NYT Connections is one of the increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow is a little harder, blue is usually quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final question since you’ll be able to answer it through a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little breathing room.
However, it’s a little more complicated than something like Wordle and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For example, be careful with homophones and other puns that could disguise answers.
It can be played for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile devices.
