NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, March 2 (game #995)
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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 Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, March 1 (game #994).
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.
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 #995) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- SPRING
- RANK
- RUBBER
- BALL
- VAULT
- SAFE
- FUNKY
- FOUL
- STATION
- STRIKE
- POPCORN
- BEAM
- HORSE
- STANDING
- RINGS
- POSITION
NYT Connections today (game #995) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Simone Biles’ equipment
- GREEN: Your rating
- BLUE: Umpire rulings
- PURPLE: Add a fowl word
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 #995) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: GYMNASTICS APPARATUS
- GREEN: STATUS
- BLUE: BASEBALL CALLS
- PURPLE: ______CHICKEN
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #995) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #995, are…
- YELLOW: GYMNASTICS APPARATUS BEAM, HORSE, RINGS, VAULT
- GREEN: STATUS POSITION, RANK, STANDING, STATION
- BLUE: BASEBALL CALLS BALL, FOUL, SAFE, STRIKE
- PURPLE: ______CHICKEN FUNKY, POPCORN, RUBBER, SPRING
- My rating: Easy
- My score: Perfect
This was only the 27th time I’ve got purple first in the past year, not the best of stats — but because I achieve it so rarely it’s always a thrill.
Today I connected FUNKY, POPCORN, RUBBER and SPRING with little confidence — is funky chicken a thing, I wondered to myself, isn’t it gibbon? Or pigeon?
YELLOW came next, although I did come close to a mistake, by initially including BALL instead of HORSE, but then I remembered that HORSE is a piece of gymnastics equipment and it all clicked into place.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Sunday, March 1, game #994)
- YELLOW: LITTLE BITE CANAPÉ, FINGER FOOD, HORS D’OEUVRE, TAPA
- GREEN: CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT HARD HAT, LADDER, NAIL GUN, TOOL BELT
- BLUE: VACATION EMOJI AIRPLANE, LUGGAGE, PALM TREE, SMILING FACE WITH SUNGLASSES
- PURPLE: THINGS YOU DON’T EAT THAT END IN FOODS COPYPASTA, JOHANNESBURGER, KNUCKLE SANDWICH, LICORICE PIZZA
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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