NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, March 15 (game #643)

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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 14 (game #642).

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 #643) - today's words

NYT Connections hints for game 643 on a purple background

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Today's NYT Connections words are…

  • PEG
  • SUE
  • MOVE
  • NEEDLE
  • MAY
  • BARB
  • NECK
  • TONIGHT
  • BRIDGE
  • MIGHT
  • WISH
  • STRING
  • BRISTLE
  • SERVE
  • SPINE
  • CHARGE

NYT Connections today (game #643) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

  • YELLOW: Pointy 
  • GREEN: Plucky devices
  • BLUE: See you in court
  • PURPLE: Nursery rhyme words

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 #643) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?

  • YELLOW: SHARP PROTRUSION 
  • GREEN: FEATURES OF STRINGED INSTRUMENTS 
  • BLUE: LITIGATION VERBS 
  • PURPLE: IN "STAR LIGHT, STAR BRIGHT" 

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #643) - the answers

NYT Connections answers for game 643 on a purple background

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The answers to today's Connections, game #643, are…

  • YELLOW: IMPOSE, AS A PENALTY ASSESS, CHARGE, FINE, LEVY
  • GREEN: CHECKOUT LINE IMPULSE BUYS CANDY, CHAPSTICK, CHARGING CABLE, MAGAZINE
  • BLUE: MOVIES OF VARIOUS LENGTHS EPIC, FEATURE, FILM SERIES, SHORT
  • PURPLE: ___ ROAD DIRT, HIGH, ROCKY, SILK

  • My rating: Moderate
  • My score: 2 mistakes

Thanks to PEG and SUE, my first thought today was the song Peggy Sue by Buddy Holly. Being a classic of the rock'n'roll era it did help guide me towards the Green group – although I did initially think I was looking for parts of a guitar, rather than the more general FEATURES OF STRINGED INSTRUMENTS.

SHARP PROTRUSION I got after making a mistake by thinking it was about heckling someone, so I had PEG instead of SPINE before then thinking it had something to do with hedgehogs – which was sort of correct.

My next mistake was thinking there was a group that was linked by dithering (oh, the irony) with MAY, MIGHT and WISH. It took me foolishly adding SUE and getting “one away” before I saw LITIGATION VERBS. A case of trial and error.

How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.


Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Friday, 14 March, game #642)

  • YELLOW: IMPOSE, AS A PENALTY ASSESS, CHARGE, FINE, LEVY
  • GREEN: CHECKOUT LINE IMPULSE BUYS CANDY, CHAPSTICK, CHARGING CABLE, MAGAZINE
  • BLUE: MOVIES OF VARIOUS LENGTHS EPIC, FEATURE, FILM SERIES, SHORT
  • PURPLE: ___ ROAD DIRT, HIGH, ROCKY, SILK

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.

Contributor

Johnny is a freelance pop culture journalist who has been writing about the internet, music, football and famous people since the iPhone was just a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye. Previously known by the pseudonym the Pop Detective, his journalistic career began making up stories about Madonna's addiction to sausage rolls (this is not true by the way). A man of few talents, his career is rich and various and includes the highs of interviewing Elton John and Blur; and the lows of interviewing Right Said Fred, appearing on a Channel 5 documentary about Peter Kay, and fact-checking the instruction manual for a German cooker. Somehow still affording to live in North London he is at his happiest riding his bicycle and shouting at pigeons.

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