NYT Connections hints and answers, Friday Mar 28

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Need a hint for today's Connections on Friday, 28th March? Connections puzzles are all fun and games… Until they give you a headache. Try not to let it come that far; if you need a bit of guidance, it’s best to find some help and keep the daily theme-finder fun.

With a hint, two hints, six hints, or a spoiler, this Connections guide gives you everything you need to survive another puzzle. Good luck!

In this guide:

• How to play Connections
• Connections hint for Friday 28th 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 Friday 28th March

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: Try to come up with other ways of 'throwing'.
• Green: These words are left and right, but never the middle.
• Blue: Think of a uniform.
• Purple: You can add the same word behind each of these group members.
• Extra hint 1: Every theme contains at least two words starting with the same letter, except purple.
• Extra hint 2: Each theme contains at least one word starting with an 'S'.

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

• Yellow:Chuck
• Green:Bracket
• Blue:Skirt
• Purple:City

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: Hurl
• Green: Be On Both Sides Of
• Blue: Parts Of A Classic Girl Scout Uniform
• Purple: ___ Hall

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 Friday, 28th March:

• Yellow: Hurl (Chuck, Pelt, Pitch, Sling)
• Green: Be On Both Sides Of (Bookend, Bracket, Flank, Surround)
• Blue: Parts Of A Classic Girl Scout Uniform (Badge, Beret, Sash, Skirt)
• Purple: ___ Hall (Bingo, City, Monty, Study)

Lacking overly obvious themes, I definitely needed a minute to find the first potential match in today's Connections. The first link I spotted was 'flank' and 'bookend', which immediately made me think of an 'on both sides' group. 'Surround' was easy to add, but I did need another good look before I realised that 'bracket' was the final member.

I had far more trouble with yellow, as I got stuck thinking of a sports field, a sound, and a business proposal before I finally interpreted the word 'pitch' correctly. Same thing with 'pelt' - it got me looking for types of cloth and animal products before I realised the connection to 'sling' and 'chuck'.

The rest of today's Connections I solved by simply linking the 'things you can wear' - I suspected the blue words were describing a uniform (due to the beret and sash), but I couldn't figure out what kind. Luckily, you can't wear any of the purple words, so even a vague connection was enough to separate the two.

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!