NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, March 22 (game #650)

Date:
Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Description:
Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each
day for your time zone which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Friday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers
for Friday, March 21 (game #649) .

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.

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 #650) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are TOUCHDOWN TRIFLE TRILLION TROMBONE TRIDENT TRADEMARK THEREMIN TCHOTCHKE TRIANGLE TELEVISION TRINKET TRILOBITE TIMPANI THINGAMAJIG TAMBOURINE TUBERCULOSIS NYT Connections today (game #650) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Making sound GREEN: Bric-a-brac BLUE: Must tri harder PURPLE: Known by shortened forms

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles NYT
Connections today (game #650) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS GREEN: KNICKKNACK BLUE: WORDS WITH THE PREFIX MEANING "THREE" PURPLE: WORDS ABBREVIATED WITH "T" + LETTER

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #650) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #650, are YELLOW: MUSICAL
INSTRUMENTS TAMBOURINE, THEREMIN, TIMPANI, TROMBONE GREEN: KNICKKNACK TCHOTCHKE, THINGAMAJIG, TRIFLE, TRINKET BLUE: WORDS WITH THE PREFIX MEANING "THREE" TRIANGLE, TRIDENT, TRILLION, TRILOBITE PURPLE: WORDS ABBREVIATED WITH "T" + LETTER TELEVISION, TOUCHDOWN, TRADEMARK, TUBERCULOSIS My rating: Hard
My score: 3 mistakes

Oh my gosh this was a difficult Connections. Similar to the occasions when
the grid is made up of just two or three letter words, or that one time when it was a dozen numbers, I found just looking at all these T-words baffling
and really struggled to make headway.

I wasnt helped by making three Mistakes on MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS convinced
that TRIANGLE (the greatest of all instruments) should be in there.

With KNICKKNACK I gambled that TCHOTCHKE was one of the common words,
although Id never heard of this wonderful Jewish-American word before. For WORDS WITH THE PREFIX MEANING "THREE" I just linked all the options that
began with TRI and was surprised that the answer was that simple although theres not much else that could link an extinct arthropod to a spear.

How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Friday, 21 March, game #649) YELLOW: MILIEU CIRCLE, SCENE, SPHERE, WORLD GREEN: LUMINARY GREAT, ICON, LEGEND, LION BLUE: ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING TOOLS COMPASS, RULER, STENCIL, T-SQUARE PURPLE: __BAR CHART, EXAM, MITZVAH, SOAP What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made 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 a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as
you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there
are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.



======================================================================
Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/gaming/nyt-connections-today-answers-hints-22-march- 2025


--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64)
* Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100)