NYT Connections hints and answers, Tuesday Mar 25

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Need a hint for today's Connections on Tuesday, 25th March? Not all Connections mysteries are created equal. Some are laughably easy, some are painstakingly tedious. If today’s edition is of the suffering-inducing kind, we’re here to offer respite.

Scroll down to find the answers, or better yet; some hints, tips, and small spoilers. You’ll claim victory before you know it.

In this guide:

• How to play Connections
• Connections hint for Tuesday 25th 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 Tuesday 25th March

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: Think about their colour.
• Green: Focus on the letters.
• Blue: Search for shortenings.
• Purple: If you add something to these words, you'll get common sayings.
• Extra hint 1: There are presidents on this list.
• Extra hint 2: 'Abe' and 'Abel' 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:Crossword
• Green:Bale
• Blue:Dick
• Purple:Mud

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: Black-And-White Things
• Green: Anagrams
• Blue: U.S. Presidential Nicknames
• Purple: Clear As ___

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 Tuesday, 25th March:

• Yellow: Black-And-White Things (Crossword, Oreo, Panda, Tuxedo)
• Green: Anagrams (Abel, Able, Bale, Bela)
• Blue: U.S. Presidential Nicknames (Abe, Cal, Dick, Teddy)
• Purple: Clear As ___ (A Bell, Crystal, Day, Mud)

The anagrams stood out the most to me today - not just as the most original category, but also because they have a very clear visual link. Even without realising they're anagrams, you would suspect a match just based on that, wouldn't you? 'Abe' would be the most distracting word for this theme, but since it obviously lacks a letter, it didn't give me any trouble.

I'm not especially familiar with U.S. presidential nicknames beyond Teddy and Abe, but I simply starting noticing the nicknames that were left. Without 'Abel' there, it just made sense to place the four remaining names together.

Although the term 'crystal-clear' popped up in my mind, I didn't see the 'clear as...' group. Instead, I noticed the similarity between an oreo cookie and a panda bear and starting forming the third group from there. I must admit it took me a minute to connect this one - seems a bit silly, but I didn't picture the tuxedo as black-and-white straight away. Got there eventually though - another Connections succesfully connected!

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!