Subj : NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, March 12 (game # To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Tue Mar 11 2025 15:15:09 NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, March 12 (game #640) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0000 Description: 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 Tuesday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, March 11 (game #639) . 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 #640) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times) Today's NYT Connections words are ORANGE KETCHUP ELMO COTTON SUGAR EYE ROSE MONTH EGGS ROCK PURPLE BUTTER FLOUR CARDINAL JOHN SILVER NYT Connections today (game #640) - hint #1 - group hints What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Ready, steady, bake GREEN: A color in common BLUE: Impossible verse PURPLE: Link rhymes with dandy 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 #640) - hint #2 - group answers What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: INGREDIENTS IN CLASSIC POUND CAKE GREEN: THINGS THAT ARE RED BLUE: WORDS SAID TO HAVE NO EXACT RHYMES PURPLE: CANDY Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #640) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times) The answers to today's Connections, game #640, are YELLOW: INGREDIENTS IN CLASSIC POUND CAKE BUTTER, EGGS, FLOUR, SUGAR GREEN: THINGS THAT ARE RED CARDINAL, ELMO, KETCHUP, ROSE BLUE: WORDS SAID TO HAVE NO EXACT RHYMES MONTH, ORANGE, PURPLE, SILVER PURPLE: CANDY COTTON, EYE, JOHN, ROCK My rating: Moderate My score: 1 mistake Todays puzzle took me down a nostalgia rabbit hole and gave me the munchies. My two blind alleys were firstly thinking I was looking for pirates and then thinking there was a group connected to classic rock acts Elton JOHN and Deep PURPLE, which I gave up on after randomly adding SILVER and ROCK to that list and wasting a guess. John and Silver also made me think about fish and chips thanks to Long John SILVERs restaurants something which admittedly is never far from my thoughts. The key that unlocked all four groups was CARDINAL. The lyrics Cardinal landing in the dogwood from Old Friends by Pinegrove popped into my head, I remembered theyre red and KETCHUP is red and from there everything fell into place and I needled my way home without another error although I did think BUTTER, EGGS, FLOUR and SUGAR was a reference to pancakes, rather than pound cake. How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Tuesday, 11 March, game #639) YELLOW: VARIATION FROM THE NORM ALTERNATIVE, BREAK, CHANGE, DEPARTURE GREEN: THINGS THAT RING ALARM, BELL, INTERCOM, PHONE BLUE: THINGS TRADITIONALLY MADE OF LEATHER FOOTBALL, MOCCASINS, SADDLE, WALLET PURPLE: SINGER-SONGWRITER PIANISTS KEYS, KING, LEGEND, WONDER 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. ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/gaming/nyt-connections-today-answers-hints-12-march- 2025 --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .