NYT Connections hints and answers, Sunday Mar 2

This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today's? Check out the Connections hint for Sunday 27th April!

Need a hint for today's Connections on Sunday, 2nd March? Connections puzzles are the perfect pastime, but they can become a bit tedious when you're missing one or more groups. Sometimes, all you lack is one crucial word to complete a tricky theme...

Whatever is holding you back from winning today's puzzle, this Connections guide will help you find it. Not even the purple theme is a match for you!

In this guide:

• How to play Connections
• Connections hint for Sunday 2nd 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 Sunday 2nd March

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: Think of your phone.
• Green: Things you can do if you don't want to get caught...
• Blue: This group focuses on the letter 'W'.
• Purple: Think of one word to place behind each group member and make them longer.
• Extra hint 1: Every group except blue contains a word starting with 'D'.
• Extra hint 2: 'Shake' and 'vibrate' are in different groups.

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

• Yellow:Ring
• Green:Escape
• Blue:Watt
• Purple:Shoe

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: Cellphone Modes
• Green: Evade
• Blue: What “W” Might Stand For
• Purple: ___String

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 Sunday, 2nd March:

• Yellow: Cellphone Modes (Airplane, Do Not Disturb, Ring, Vibrate)
• Green: Evade (Dodge, Escape, Lose, Shake)
• Blue: What “W” Might Stand For (Tungsten, Watt, West, Win)
• Purple: ___String (Draw, Ham, Heart, Shoe)

Today was one of the rare occassions where I caught the purple category first. For some reason, my brain just said 'string' when I saw 'draw', and then repeated that word upon noticing the others. Thanks, NYT; I really needed a confidence boost after yesterday's Connections puzzle!

Well, I've got a cellphone and I've dodged plenty of enemy bullets (in video games - just so we're clear on that), so the yellow and green category were fairly easy as well. Which is a good thing, because the blue group certainly isn't easy - I'd say it's a lot harder even than the purple one. Everyone knows the words with 'string' after all, so you just need to realise the nature of this connection, but if you don't know the various meanings of 'W', you're simply out of luck.

In my case, I know the other three but had no idea that tungsten uses the 'W' symbol - all I know is that it is some sort of metallic stone. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Connections puzzles are highly educational.

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!