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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears every day at midnight for your time zone – which means some people are still playing “today’s game” while others are playing “yesterday’s.” If you’re looking for Thursday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections Tips and Answers for Thursday, March 5 (Game #998).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the clever word game from the New York Times that challenges you to group answers into different categories. This can be difficult, so read on if you need tips on connections.
SPOILER WARNING: The information on NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (game #999) – words of the day
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- SPONGE
- MARBLE
- SHARP
- SPIRIT
- BOOK
- LAYER
- FACULTY
- CURTAIN
- CHOP
- PARASITE
- BLANKET
- SENSE
- LEECH
- COAT
- NUMBER
- HANG OUT
NYT Connections today (game #999) – clue #1 – group clues
What are the clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Take without giving
- GREEN: Keep it hidden
- BLUE: Meanings of a particular symbol
- PURPLE: Gray matter, but something is missing
Need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four themed answers are for today’s NYT Connections riddles…
NYT Connections today (game #999) – clue #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: FREE CHARGER
- GREEN: CONCEALMENT COVER
- BLUE: WAYS OF REFERRING TO #
- PURPLE: WORDS FOR LUCIDITY, IN THE SINGULAR
That’s right, 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: FREELOADER BLOODBLOOD, MOOCH, PARASITE, SPONGE
- GREEN: CONCEALING COVER BLANKET, COAT, CURTAIN, DIAPER
- BLUE: WAYS TO REFER TO # HASH, NUMBER, BOOK, SHARP
- PURPLE: WORDS FOR LUCIDITY, IN THE SINGULAR FACULTY, MARBLE, SENSE, SPIRIT
- My rating: Hard
- My rating: 1 error
What do SPONGE, LAYER, POUND and MARBLE suggest to you? Cakes, of course – that’s exactly what the New York Times wanted you to think by placing them all together in the upper left corner of the board today. What have I done? I ignored them, of course, because I couldn’t fall for the trap. that trap.
Instead, I decided that SPONGE might just team up with LEECH, PARASITE and MOOCH to form a FREELOADER group – and indeed that’s what they did. It was yellow made, and the green CONCEALING COVER wasn’t much harder.
As always, the blue and purple required a little more thought. I noticed that FACULTY, SENSE and MIND were all related to intelligent thinking, but I tried both SHARP and NUMBER and got “one”; I’m not really sure what I was doing with that last one, but only smart people understand numbers, right?
I only had three words to choose from: MARBLE, HASH and POUND, and after looking at them for a few minutes, I slowly realized that the other words were all singular and therefore MARBLE would be the last piece of the puzzle. To be honest, this is not a good example of my own mental faculties.
Besides, I can’t help but think that the blue # group was even more difficult than the purple one. I’m very glad I didn’t need to solve that one.
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Thursday March 5, Thu #998)
- YELLOW: PIECES OF MATERIAL BOLT, NUT, SCREW, WASHER
- GREEN: PLACES WHERE IDEAS DEVELOP INCUBATOR, LABORATORY, SANDBOX, TEST BENCH
- BLUE: COMING AND GOING ALTERNATIVE, TOGGLE, SWITCH, TOGGLE
- PURPLE: WHAT “SUB” COULD REFER TO BELOW, HERO, REPLACEMENT, SUBMARINE
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four elements that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow is a little more difficult, blue is often quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you technically don’t need to solve the final question, as you will be able to answer it through a process of elimination. Additionally, you can make up to four mistakes, giving you some breathing room.
However, it’s a bit more complex than something like Wordle, and the game provides plenty of opportunities to trip you up with tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other puns that could obscure the answers.
It is playable for free via the NYT Games website on computer or mobile.
