NYT Connections hints and answers, Sunday Mar 30

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Need a hint for today's Connections on Sunday, 30th March? If you find yourself staring at the word mesh far longer than you would’ve liked, it’s time to get you unstuck. No Connections puzzle is unsolvable with some hints, tips, and sneak peeks from this guide.

Need a hint? We’ve got you. Need two hints? We’ve got you too. Together we’ll defeat that pesky puzzle.

In this guide:

• How to play Connections
• Connections hint for Sunday 30th 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 Sunday 30th March

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: These words aren't a lot or a little, but exactly in between.
• Green: They're part of a U.S.A. symbol.
• Blue: As heard on Broadway.
• Purple: Find the different types of men.
• Extra hint 1: The blue group is the only one without a word starting with 'S'.
• Extra hint 2: Kate and Dolly belong to the same group, but not because they're names.

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

• Yellow:Norm
• Green:Shield
• Blue:Kate
• Purple:Crafts

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: Average
• Green: Pictured On The U.S. Great Seal
• Blue: Proper Nouns In Broadway Musical Titles That Are Spoken Phrases
• Purple: ___Man

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 Sunday, 30th March:

• Yellow: Average (Mean, Norm, Par, Standard)
• Green: Pictured On The U.S. Great Seal (Arrows, Eagle, Olive Branch, Shield)
• Blue: Proper Nouns In Broadway Musical Titles That Are Spoken Phrases (Birdie, Dolly, Kate, Yankees)
• Purple: ___Man (Bogey, Crafts, Gentle, Spokes)

Thanks to 'standard' and 'norm', finding the yellow group wasn't too hard. I suspect only the word 'par' presents a bit of a struggle, as perhaps not everyone is familiar with that one. The green theme is probably far more divisive, as it'll be far easier to solve if you're American and therefore familiar with the Great Seal. I myself am not, and although I've seen the seal before (and a gorgeous seal it is), I wouldn't be able to recall it exactly.

With so many (nick)names present, it made sense to group them together, but since that only brought me to a total of three, I had to put them aside. It took me a while to find the next group after that, but ultimately I thought of 'gentleman', which led to the discovery of the other three men.

I was left with eight words and no idea how to separate them into two groups, so I did what I always do in such cases, and separated them by a vague association. In this case, I had four 'ways of addressing/naming people', and so I tried the names, nickname, and the yankees together, which - lucky for me - worked. I've really got to learn Broadway trivia though - it always pops up in the Connections puzzles every now and then, and I never understand it!

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!