NYT Connections hints and answers, Thursday Mar 6

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Need a hint for today's Connections on Thursday, 6th March? The Connections puzzle may very well be the most difficult guessing game ever published by the NYT. The difficulty level can vary quite a bit, but when it's tough, it's really tough. Some of these puzzzles are nearly impossible without a bit of help.

Not to worry though! Grab some hints from our helpful list below, and let's crack on with today's Connections challenge.

In this guide:

• How to play Connections
• Connections hint for Thursday 6th 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 Thursday 6th March

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: If something is fading out, how would you call that?
• Green: This is a gardening group.
• Blue: Search for words to wear and walk on.
• Purple: Think of a coarse material, then put it in front of these words.
• Extra hint 1: The only group without a word that starts with 'p' is blue.
• Extra hint 2: This Mary Jane is family-friendly.

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

• Yellow:Dwindle
• Green:Weed
• Blue:Flat
• Purple:Piper

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: Wane
• Green: Do Some Tasks In The Garden
• Blue: Shoes
• Purple: Sand___

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 Thursday, 6th March:

• Yellow: Wane (Dwindle, Fade, Peter, Taper)
• Green: Do Some Tasks In The Garden (Plant, Prune, Water, Weed)
• Blue: Shoes (Flat, Mary Jane, Mule, Slide)
• Purple: Sand___ (Castle, Paper, Piper, Stone)

Not going to lie, my first association today was about Spider-Man. I mean, they put Peter and Mary-Jane together, that's got to be intentional. I spent a bit of time searching for anything spider- or superhero-related, but couldn't find anything. What I did find, however, was a connection I'd rather not repeat here, but it involved Mary-Jane and weed. Very funny, NYT!

Of course, I wasn't sure if this was a ruse or a serious connection, so I investigated potential connections with plant, fade, stone, and even mule, but to no avail. Luckily, however, I did discover the green category since I was so focused on plants, which then made me realise that I still wasn't thinking of the correct MJ.

Eventually, however, I found Mary's group because it was the last one left. I'm clearly not well-educated on shoe types, but I did find the 'wane' and 'sand' categories quite easily. When searching for the last one, it was 'paper' and 'stone' that gave it away. I'm quite fond of sandstone as a building material in Minecraft, so that must've helped.

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!