NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, March 29 (game #657)

Date:
Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +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 Friday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers
for Friday, March 28 (game #656) .

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

Today's NYT Connections words are SILVER BIKE BOXER PANAMA BERMUDA CLUE MAN COMMANDO CRYSTAL BRAZIL WITNESS CHINA PLAN CARGO LINEN CANAL NYT Connections today (game #657) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Upper class table setting GREEN: Varieties of summer clothing BLUE: A legendary play on words PURPLE: Big screen hits of the 1980s

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 #657) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: MATERIALS ASSOCIATED WITH FANCY DINING GREEN: KINDS OF SHORTS BLUE: NOUNS IN A FAMOUS PALINDROME PURPLE: MOVIES FROM 1985

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #657) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #657, are YELLOW: MATERIALS ASSOCIATED WITH FANCY DINING CHINA, CRYSTAL, LINEN, SILVER GREEN: KINDS OF SHORTS BERMUDA, BIKE, BOXER, CARGO BLUE: NOUNS IN A FAMOUS PALINDROME CANAL, MAN, PANAMA, PLAN PURPLE: MOVIES FROM 1985 BRAZIL, CLUE, COMMANDO, WITNESS My rating: Moderate My score: 1 mistake

I muddled through today with just one mistake. That came when I put LINEN instead of CARGO (which I consider a full leg-length garment) in KINDS OF SHORTS.

The rest I got away with despite not really knowing what I was doing CHINA, CRYSTAL, LINEN, and SILVER as they were all expensive materials; CANAL, MAN, PANAMA, and PLAN because they all had an in them.

The famous palindrome in question ( a man, a plan, a canal Panama!) was coined in a 1948 edition of Notes & Queries magazine, although that is under dispute as some Googling reveals.

In the 1980s other items were added by wordsmiths, including a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam and a hat. Next, a computer programmer came up with a version with 243 words. But then, putting the seal on any future revisions, computer scientist Peter Norvig created his definitive 2,473 word Panama palindrome. I can only imagine the crushing sense of disappointment when he went over 2,002 words.

How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Friday, 28 March, game #656) YELLOW: HURL CHUCK, PELT, PITCH, SLING GREEN: BE ON BOTH SIDES OF BOOKEND, BRACKET, FLANK, SURROUND BLUE: PARTS OF A CLASSIC GIRL SCOUT UNIFORM BADGE, BERET, SASH, SKIRT PURPLE: __HALL BINGO, CITY, MONTY, STUDY 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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