NYT Connections hints and answers, Thursday Mar 27

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 Thursday, 27th March? If today’s words are failing to connect in your head, don’t worry; nobody keeps an infinite Connections streak without a bit of help. Sooner or later, a tricksy theme will pass the revue.

Worry not; use this Connections guide to find the right answer. Perhaps you only need one hint, but if not, we’ve got a bunch more.

In this guide:

• How to play Connections
• Connections hint for Thursday 27th 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 27th March

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: Think of arguments and the effect they might have on you.
• Green: Things you might yell when you solve a Connections puzzle.
• Blue: Perhaps you keep this in your wallet.
• Purple: Put something similar to 'small' in front of these words.
• Extra hint 1: 'Sway' and 'change' are in different groups.
• Extra hint 2: None of these groups contain words starting with the same letter.

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

• Yellow:Touch
• Green:Bingo
• Blue:Green
• Purple:Scope

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: Affect
• Green: You Got It!
• Blue: Slang For Money
• Purple: Objects With The Prefix “Micro-”

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, 27th March:

• Yellow: Affect (Move, Reach, Sway, Touch)
• Green: You Got It! (Bingo, Correct, Ding, Right)
• Blue: Slang For Money (Change, Green, Paper, Scratch)
• Purple: Objects With The Prefix “Micro-” (Chip, Phone, Scope, Wave)

Upon first glance, 'bingo' and 'correct' stood out to me. It took me a while to find 'ding' as a member to that group though ('right' was obvious), as I was looking for something with a more literal meaning. Only when I realised that it was more about exclamations and not so much synonyms of 'correct', did I broaden my view enough to add 'ding'.

The yellow theme was a bit harder than usual for me as I had to take an extra step to find it rather than simply group four words with the exact same meaning. I initially thought of each word's 'main' meaning, as in 'touching an object' and 'moving in a direction'. I did eventually think of being moved or touched emotionally, and then expanded this to being affected, so 'reach' and 'sway' would fit the bill.

The next group I got was purple, not blue, because my brain just went to 'micro' when it saw 'wave'. I tested it out on the others and it worked - which is a good thing, because I'm not sure if I would've caught on to the money thing. I never use 'scratch' to describe money myself, but it's always nice to learn new terms.

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!