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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 Monday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, March 31 (game #659).
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 #660) - today's words
Today's NYT Connections words are…
- ⊾
- &
- X
- )
- N
- P
- €
- →
- $
- (
- +
- £
- √
- R
- ¥
NYT Connections today (game #660) - hint #1 - group hints
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Money
- GREEN: In addition
- BLUE: Pre-emoji comms
PURPLE: Correct
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 #660) - hint #2 - group answers
What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: CURRENCY SYMBOLS
- GREEN: AND/TOGETHER WITH
- BLUE: EMOTICON MOUTHS
- PURPLE: "RIGHT"
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #660) - the answers
The answers to today's Connections, game #660, are…
- YELLOW: CURRENCY SYMBOLS $, £, 7, €
- GREEN: AND/TOGETHER WITH &, +, N, X
- BLUE: EMOTICON MOUTHS (,), 0, Р
- PURPLE: "RIGHT" R, →, ⊾, V
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 3 mistakes
If the NYT was looking to make April Fools of us all then this was the perfect way to do it.
Hopefully it’s an experimental one-off for Connections, though – because like many people I suspect/hope, I found today’s puzzle baffling beyond belief.
The currencies were straightforward enough, but beyond that I struggled to find any links at all and wasted two mistakes thinking P, R, N and X were an acronym for something I didn’t know and that the ampersand along with the brackets and plus symbol were punctuation marks.
After thinking more laterally and pondering alternative uses for brackets I got there, but not before guessing P and X instead of P and 0.
How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.
Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Monday, 31 March, game #659)
- YELLOW: CONSUMED ATE, HAD, PUT AWAY, TOOK IN
- GREEN: ALSO AS WELL, BESIDES, TO BOOT, TOO
- BLUE: ATM OPTIONS BALANCE, DEPOSIT, TRANSFER, WITHDRAWAL
- PURPLE: __PLAY FORE, HORSE, SCREEN, WORD
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.