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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 you are instead looking for the Thursday puzzle then click here: NYT Connections Tips & Answers for Thursday, March 5 (Game #998).
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 #999): Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- SPONGE
- MARBLE
- SHARP
- WIT
- POUND
- LAYER
- FACULTY
- CURTAIN
- HASH
- PARASITE
- BLANKET
- SENSE
- LEECH
- LAYER
- NUMBER
- Wander to
NYT Connections Today (Game #999) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some leads for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: take without giving
- GREEN: keep it hidden
- BLUE: Meanings of a particular symbol
- PURPLE: Intellectual capacity, but one element is missing
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 #999) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: FREE CHARGER
- GREEN: HIDDEN COVER
- BLUE: WAYS IN WHICH # MAY BE REFERRED TO
- PURPLE: WORDS FOR LUCIDITY, IN SINGULAR
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #999): The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #999 are…
- YELLOW: FREE CHARGER LEECH, MOOCH, PARASITE, SPONGE
- GREEN: HIDDEN LID BLANKET, CAPE, CURTAIN, CAPE
- BLUE: WAYS YOU CAN REFER TO # HASH, NUMBER, POUND, SHARP
- PURPLE: WORDS FOR LUCIDITY, IN SINGULAR FACULTY, MARBLE, SENSE, INGENUITY
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 error
What do SPONGE, CAPA, LIBRA and MARBLE suggest to you? Pies, of course, which is exactly what the NYT wanted you to think by placing them all together in the top left corner of the board today. What did I do? I ignored them, of course, because there was no way I would fall for it. that trap.
Instead, I decided that SPONGE could combine well with LEECH, PARASITE and MOOCH to form a FREELOADER group, and indeed they did. That was yellow and the green HIDDEN COVER wasn’t much harder.
As always, the blue and purple required a little more thought. I found that FACULTY, SENSE, and WIT were all connected to intelligent thinking, but I tried SHARP and NUMBER and got “one away”; I’m not really sure what I was doing with that last one, but only smart people understand numbers, right?
Now I only had three words to choose from: MARBLE, HASH, and POUND, and after staring at them for a few minutes, I slowly realized that the other words were all singular, and therefore MARBLE would be the final piece of the puzzle. To be honest, it’s not a great example of my own mental faculties.
By the way, I can’t help but feel that the blue # group was even more difficult than the purple one. I’m so glad I didn’t have to figure that out.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Thursday, March 5, Game #998)
- YELLOW: HARDWARE PIECES BOLT, NUT, SCREW, WASHER
- GREEN: PLACES WHERE IDEAS ARE DEVELOPED INCUBATOR, LABORATORY, SAND BOX, TEST BED
- BLUE: GO AND FORWARD ALTERNATIVE, ROCKER, SWITCH, ALTERNATIVE
- PURPLE: WHAT “SUB” COULD REFER TO DOWN, HERO, REPLACEMENT, SUBMARINE
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.
