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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 12 (Game #1005).
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.
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NYT Connections Today (Set #1006) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- PERFECT
- BRICK
- APPROVE
- NUN
- EXCELLENT
- AWL
- MAJOR
- ADDITION
- PHEW
- No
- FOUR
- EVEN
- NEXT TIME
- SEDAN
- IRRATIONAL
- LATER
NYT Connections Today (Game #1006) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some leads for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Put it down
- GREEN: Numerical varieties
- BLUE: Types of vertical structure.
- PURPLE: It sounds like a quantity
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 #1006) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: “NO THANKS”
- GREEN: TYPES OF NUMBERS
- BLUE: TYPES OF WALLS
- PURPLE: HOMOPHONES OF NON-NUMERICAL QUANTITIES
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #1006): The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #1006 are…
- YELLOW: “NO THANKS” THEN NO, THE NEXT STEP
- GREEN: TYPES OF NUMBERS EVEN, IRRATIONAL, PERFECT, MAIN
- BLUE: TYPES OF WALLS BERLIN, BRICK, ROOM, BIG
- PURPLE: HOMOPHONES OF NON-NUMERICAL QUANTITIES POINT, NUN, UF, SUM
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 2 errors
When you get the “one away” pop-up notification, it’s hard not to notice a group, even if you keep getting it wrong.
I put in a lot of effort trying to complete what became the green group KINDS OF NUMBERS, including GREAT, then SUM instead of IRRATIONAL before giving up completely after removing EVEN from my quartet and getting the “groups of four” popup.
Luckily, I found the other three groups fairly easily, but I flirted with my first loss of 2026 on a pretty easy day.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Thursday, March 12, Game #1005)
- YELLOW: PLACES TO FIND SAND BUNKER, DESERT, HOURGLASS, SANDBOX
- GREEN: THINGS THAT MOVE FORWARD AND BACKWARD METRONOME, PENDULUM, SWIVEL, WINDSCREEN WIPER
- BLUE: DEVICE-BASED EXERCISE CLASSES SWEEP, REFORMER, TWIST, STEP
- PURPLE: WITH BIRDS CUCKOO CLOCK, FROOT LOOPS, MEXICAN FLAG, WEATHER WEATHER
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.
