NYT Connections hints and answers, Wednesday Mar 26

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Need a hint for today's Connections on Wednesday, 26th March? Connecting four words through a common theme can be easy-peasy or difficult, very difficult. Unfortunately, the NYT Connections puzzle often goes for the latter difficulty level, so brace yourself for a serious challenge.

If you need some help (and who doesn’t, now and then?) this Connections guide will help you out. Let’s tackle today’s puzzle!

In this guide:

• How to play Connections
• Connections hint for Wednesday 26th 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 26th March

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: You may see these items when you sit down for a meal.
• Green: These words move in a certain direction - pretty fast, too.
• Blue: Think of a kind of storage.
• Purple: What happens if you subtract one letter?
• Extra hint 1: Today's puzzle contains four six-letter words, spread over three themes.
• Extra hint 2: 'Drive', 'flew', and 'bounce' 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:Glass
• Green:Shot
• Blue:Disk
• Purple:Galleon

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: Parts Of A Table Setting
• Green: Increased, With “Up”
• Blue: Kinds Of Digital Storage
• Purple: Units Of Volume Plus Letter

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, 26th March:

• Yellow: Parts Of A Table Setting (Fork, Glass, Napkin, Plate)
• Green: Increased, With “Up” (Flew, Rose, Shot, Thrust)
• Blue: Kinds Of Digital Storage (Card, Cloud, Disk, Drive)
• Purple: Units Of Volume Plus Letter (Bounce, Galleon, Pinot, Quartz)

This first theme I noticed today was, as I call it, the 'going upwards' theme. I did experience some doubt though, due to 'bounce', but I figured this word didn't really fit as bouncing is a return trip, while things shot into the air or rising up don't necessarily come down again. Luckily, this proved to be correct.

Next up was the table theme, or as I interpreted it, the 'things you use during a meal' theme. Again I experienced just a little bit of doubt because of one other word, Pinot in this case (wine), which could fit a 'fancy dinner' theme. But then again, the other four words aren't necessarily fancy, except maybe 'napkin' (I don't think people use them for a quick meal, do they?). Pinot clearly didn't fit as well as the others, and so another Connections theme was found.

Since I use digital devices and their storage space on a daily basis, the blue theme didn't remain a mystery for long, especially since I had only eight words left. I'd say today's Connections was fairly easy, or at least more so than usual.

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!