NYT Connections hints and answers, Wednesday Mar 19

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Need a hint for today's Connections on Wednesday, 19th March? Connections puzzles can be challenging, to say the least, but this guide will give you and your exhausted brains some relief.

Whether it's a hint or a spoiler you need, you'll find all that and more in this Connections guide. Victory is nigh!

In this guide:

• How to play Connections
• Connections hint for Wednesday 19th 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 Wednesday 19th March

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: What do these words... 'indicate'?
• Green: You've clicked on these words plenty of times.
• Blue: Think of a road, especially a big one.
• Purple: Find something to put in front of all of these words, and they'll form part of a sentence.
• Extra hint 1: None of the themes contain two or more words starting with the same letter.
• Extra hint 2: One of purple's words is 'fashionable'.

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

• Yellow:Mean
• Green:Back
• Blue:Lane
• Purple:Plancha

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: Signify
• Green: Web Browser Buttons
• Blue: Parts Of A Road
• Purple: À/A La ___

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 Wednesday, 19th March:

• Yellow: Signify (Convey, Express, Mean, Spell)
• Green: Web Browser Buttons (Back, Extensions, Forward, Refresh)
• Blue: Parts Of A Road (Divider, Lane, Median, Shoulder)
• Purple: À/A La ___ (Carte, King, Mode, Plancha)

I needed a minute or two to find my first theme today. Although the yellow category seems quite obvious in hindsight, I initially matched 'convey' with 'forward', because I was thinking of a message. As I was wondering about 'extensions' and 'back' in relation to those two, I suddenly thought of an opinion rather than a message, and found a potential match between 'convey' and 'express'. That led me to 'explain something' and ultimately 'indicate/mean', and so the first theme was solved. I'd say it was a bit harder than usual!

I still suspected a link between 'back' and 'forward', and after some thinking, realised they could still form a group with 'refresh' if they were browser buttons. Another theme down, two more to go. Although I failed to connect the blue words with the 'road' theme (I was too busy thinking of room dividers, economic stuff, and body parts), I did think of 'a la mode' and 'a la carte'. The latter is probably the most commonly used 'a la' term. However, I didn't know 'a la plancha' and 'a la king', so I had to resort to guessing.

Guessing can actually get you quite far if the other words are unlikely enough. 'A la divider' just doesn't make sense, does it? After grouping the four words least likely to be part of 'a la' together, I finally noticed the road theme and was able to solve today's Connections.

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!