NYT Connections hints and answers, Saturday Mar 1

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Need a hint for today's Connections on Saturday, 1st March? Even the most well-versed Connections puzzler may run into an impossible challenge from time to time. Whenever that happens, don't be defeated; we're here to turn the tide.

We can't predict how many hints you'll need, but we've listed plenty of them below. Let's beat today's guessing game!

In this guide:

• How to play Connections
• Connections hint for Saturday 1st March
• What are today's Connections groups?
• What are today's Connections answers?

Here are the 16 Connections words for today:

How to play Connections

Connections is one of the most popular (and challenging) daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). The aim of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, where each group of four words has a common theme.

For instance, the words "Hook", "Nana", "Peter", and "Wendy" are all Peter Pan characters. Or to take another example, "Action", "Ballpark", "Go", and "Stick" are all words which commonly come just before the word "Figure".

Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the various words together - but be wary, because a lot of the time there are deceptive red herring connections placed purely to throw you off! To win the game, you have to find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is revealed automatically.

Each of the four groups in each day's Connections puzzle is also assigned a different colour, which represents how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colours are: Yellow (Easiest), Green (Easy), Blue (Medium), and Purple (Hardest).

Click here to play today's Connections puzzle!

Connections hint for Saturday 1st March

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: This theme is very lucky.
• Green: Do you see any visual similarities?
• Blue: This theme will be easy for the Broadway fans.
• Purple: Try to come up with different types of cowboys.
• Extra hint 1: The purple group is related to movies and songs.
• Extra hint 2: Every group except green contains a word starting with 's'.

If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:

• Yellow:Ladybug
• Green:Tomboy
• Blue:Phantom
• Purple:Drugstore

Spoiler warning! Today's Connections groups are revealed just below!

What are today's Connections groups?

If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today's Connections puzzle, below we'll reveal the four correct Connections groups - the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.

Here are the Connections groups for today:

• Yellow: Associated With Good Luck
• Green: To-Bo- Compound Words
• Blue: Broadway Musicals, Familiarly
• Purple: Words Before “Cowboy” In Film And Music

Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today's puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.

Spoiler warning! Today's Connections answer lies ahead!

What is today's Connections answer?

Here is the answer to today's Connections puzzle on Saturday, 1st March:

• Yellow: Associated With Good Luck (Horseshoe, Ladybug, Penny, Shamrock)
• Green: To-Bo- Compound Words (Tollbooth, Tomboy, Toolbox, Towboat)
• Blue: Broadway Musicals, Familiarly (Fiddler, Merrily, Phantom, Sunset)
• Purple: Words Before “Cowboy” In Film And Music (Drugstore, Midnight, Rhinestone, Space)

Upon first glance, I saw 'ladybug' and 'tomboy' in today's Connections challenge and thought I was onto something there. Alas, there was no further evidence for a 'hidden people' category, but I did notice the similarities between 'tomboy' and its to-bo peers. As Connections puzzles don't usually base their groups on similarities in the letters they contain though, I was somewhat in doubt at first, so I matched the yellow 'luck' category before I dared to enter the green one.

I guess it's safe to assume a connection when the similarity is too obvious to ignore; sharing the same starting letter or even the same two starting letters is unlikely to prove a connection, but compound words sharing the same two letters for each of their two 'parts' can't possibly be brushed aside as a coincidence.

With that out of the way, today's Connections brutally confronted me with my lack of education on Broadway musicals and cowboy-themed movies and songs. I know 'The Phantom of the Opera' and 'Space Cowboy', but that's hardly enough to complete the groups. After staring at the eight words for much longer than I should have, I had to give up... Usually, one entertainment trivia theme is paired with three non-entertainment ones, but sadly not today. If you want to get better at Connections puzzles, brushing up on such trivia might be helpful.

Congratulations if you got today's Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you didn't succeed today, don't worry - a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!