NYT Connections hints and answers for March 3, 2025

NYT Connections

The New York Times’ daily word puzzle Connections continues to engage word enthusiasts with its challenging categories and clever wordplay. The March 3 puzzle (#631) required players to identify four groups of related words. Here’s a breakdown of the hints, answers, and strategies to solve today’s puzzle.

If you need a nudge in the right direction, here are category hints for today’s puzzle:

Yellow: Be at leisure

Green: Formats of gold

Blue: Cylinder of material

Purple: Seen in The Flintstones

These clues provide a guiding framework without immediately revealing the answers, preserving the challenge for players.

For those who need assistance, here are today’s answers:

Yellow (Be at Leisure): Chill, Loaf, Lounge, Rest

Green (Formats of Gold): Bar, Coin, Leaf, Nugget

Blue (Cylinder of Material): Bolt, Reel, Roll, Scroll

Purple (Seen in The Flintstones): Bone, Club, Dinosaur, Rubble

Objective: Identify four sets of related words from a 16-word grid.

Sorting words: Find connections based on synonyms, shared themes, or common contexts.

Submitting groups: Select four words and submit to check correctness.

Feedback and lives: Correct groups are color-coded; incorrect selections reduce your four available lives.

Identify obvious groups first.

Use process of elimination by narrowing down the remaining options.

Think creatively about less direct word associations.

Learn from mistakes and refine future strategies.