NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, March 23 (game #651)

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Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:30:00 +0000

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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 Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, March 22 (game #650) .

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

Today's NYT Connections words are SMART AIRPLANE BACK POCKET GRAB BUTTONS
STOP FLY FAIRY ENTRANCE BLACK RIVET MACK WRIST ABSORB HOSPITAL NYT
Connections today (game #651) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Under a spell GREEN: They help you fly but have another meaning too BLUE: You tell time
with these PURPLE: Clapping game lyrics

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 #651) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: CAPTIVATE GREEN: THINGS WITH WINGS BLUE: WORDS THAT MODIFY "WATCH" PURPLE: WORDS REPEATED IN "MISS MARY MACK"

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #651) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #651, are YELLOW: CAPTIVATE ABSORB, ENTRANCE, GRAB, RIVET GREEN: THINGS WITH WINGS AIRPLANE, FAIRY, FLY, HOSPITAL BLUE: WORDS THAT MODIFY "WATCH" POCKET, SMART, STOP, WRIST PURPLE: WORDS REPEATED IN "MISS MARY MACK" BACK, BLACK, BUTTONS, MACK My rating: Hard My score: 2 mistakes

A day of double meanings. I was so locked on ENTRANCE being an opening to something that it didnt occur to me that we were looking for the other definition, so I wasted a couple of mistakes trying to link it with FLY and BUTTONS. When that didnt work I convinced myself we were looking for fasteners, so FLY again, BUTTONS, RIVET and in a trance of confusion MACK.

It had all started so well too. The second I saw SMART and WRIST I thought watch, although if we were playing a Jeopardy! version of Connections I would never have answered WORDS THAT MODIFY WATCH.

According to Wikipedia, Miss Mary Mack is the worlds best known clapping
song, but Ive never heard of it. Reading the rest of the lyrics, apparently Mary also enjoyed smoking her fathers pipe and she was no doubt friends with a goose who drank wine and a monkey who chewed tobacco on the streetcar line.

How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Saturday, 22 March, game #650) 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 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.



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