NYT ‘Connections’ Today: Hints And Answers For Friday, March 7
ByKris Holt
, Contributor.
Find the links between the words to win today’s game of Connections.
Looking for Thursday’s NYT Connections hints and answers instead? You can find them here:
Hey, everyone! It’s almost the weekend, and I hope it’s a rejuvenating couple of days for you.
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Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, March 7, are coming right up.
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT website or Games app.
You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.
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There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.
Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.
If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.
If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication’s Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.
Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my hints for each grid via Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.
Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.
Today’s 16 words are…
And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s Connections groups are…
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections answers are…
My latest perfect game extends my streak to double digits. Here’s how I fared:
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I was very excited by the theme of today’s grid since I absolutely love Severance. The names in the center squares are four of the show’s main characters while Lumon is the name of the strange and dangerous corporation they work for.
Still, I presumed that those would not form a group, a suspicion that was confirmed when the greens clicked. I figured that group might have been purple, but nope!
The yellows were next as those seemed clear enough to me. I then had to go with a guess of the four city names since nothing else was gelling. Sure enough, the blues were as simple as that – but it took me a while to figure out a fun clue for that one!
I didn’t figure out the purple connection before submitting it, but thankfully I didn’t have to! I don’t think I would have figured that one out. The fruits in question are, of course, apple, date, lemon and peach.
That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Saturday’s game if you need them.
P.S. There’s really only one option for today’s recommendation and that’s Severance. There are a lot of reasons why it’s been a hit for Apple TV+, but the main one is that it’s been a brilliant show so far. I can’t think of a series that has tickled my brain this way since Lost captivated much of the planet. I hope Severance does a better job of keeping its focus.
For the uninitiated, Severance is a show that concerns a group of people who willingly have an implant placed in their brain that effectively splits them into two people: their work selves and the person they are away from the office. Those who undertake the severance procedure have their workplace memories and experiences completely separated from the rest of their life. These folks literally leave everything at the office, and none of them actually know what their work is about.
Lumon, the biotech company they work for, is absolutely bizarre and very cult-like. There’s a lot of mystery surrounding this company and what it does. Severance is an odd show, but it’s absolutely captivating. Last week’s episode, the seventh of the second series, shed a bit more light on what’s going on here . At the same time, it broke my heart. This show is one of my favorite things going at the minute:
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NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for March 7, 2025
Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that’s captured the public’s attention. The game is all about finding the “common threads between words.” And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we’ve served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.
If you just want to be told today’s puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for today’s Connections solution. But if you’d rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.
The NYT’s latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications’ Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.
Each puzzle features 16 words and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise of anything from book titles, software, country names, etc. Even though multiple words will seem like they fit together, there’s only one correct answer.
If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake—players get up to four mistakes until the game ends.
Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media.
Want a hint about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:
Need a little extra help? Today’s connections fall into the following categories:
Looking for Wordle today? Here’s the answer to today’s Wordle.
Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to turn back and solve today’s puzzle before we reveal the solutions.
Drumroll, please!
The solution to today’s Connections #635 is…
Don’t feel down if you didn’t manage to guess it this time. There will be new Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we’ll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.
Are you also playing NYT Strands? See hints and answers for today’s Strands.
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You don’t have to watch the Apple TV Plus sci-fi drama to solve the puzzle, though. Here are hints and answers for Connections for March 7, #635.
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Do you watch Severance on Apple TV Plus, the unnerving show about people who agree to a procedure that means they don’t know who they are outside of work when they’re at their jobs, and vice-versa? You’ll see a bunch of clues reminiscent of the show in today’s Connections puzzle. You don’t have to know the show to solve the puzzle because the categories stand on their own, but the clues serve as little Easter eggs for Severance viewers. (Lumon, the name of the mysterious company, is even one of the clues–and wait till you see how they shoehorned it into a category.) Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.
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The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.
Read more: Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time
Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group, to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.
Yellow group hint: Something that may be used as a heraldic device.
Green group hint: Have you seen A Complete Unknown yet?
Blue group hint: Seattle and Minneapolis, also.
Purple group hint: Not vegetables, but…
Yellow group: Emblem.
Green group: Subjects of acclaimed musical biopics.
Blue group: US cities.
Purple group: Fruits with their second letters changed.
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The completed NYT Connections puzzle for March 7, 2025, #635.
The theme is emblem. The four answers are label, mark, seal and stamp.
The theme is subjects of acclaimed musical biopics. The four answers are Brown, Cash, Dylan and Mercury.
The theme is US cities. The four answers are Buffalo, Helena, Irving and Phoenix.
The theme is fruits with their second letters changed. The four answers are ample, dote, lumon and poach. (For apple, date, lemon and peach.)
