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NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, March 8 (game #1001)

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My clues will help you solve the NYT's Connections puzzle today and keep that streak going

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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, March 7 (game #1000).

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Connections today (game #1001) - today's words

NYT Connections hints for game 1001 on a purple background

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Today's NYT Connections words are…

  • NICE
  • NADAL
  • ZIPPER
  • SELES
  • JACKET
  • OSAKA
  • JAW
  • SINNER
  • EYE
  • GREMLIN
  • PHOENIX
  • SQUATTER
  • REFER
  • TREMOR
  • ROTATOR
  • LIMA

NYT Connections today (game #1001) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

  • YELLOW: Places to live
  • GREEN: Mirror words
  • BLUE: Alien or The Bird could be others  
  • PURPLE: Beginning with nothing

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections today (game #1001) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?

  • YELLOW: CITIES
  • GREEN: PALINDROMES
  • BLUE: HORROR MOVIES MINUS "S"
  • PURPLE: STARTING WITH SLANG FOR ZERO

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #1001) - the answers

NYT Connections answers for game 1001 on a purple background

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The answers to today's Connections, game #1001, are…

  • YELLOW: CITIES LIMA, NICE, OSAKA, PHOENIX
  • GREEN: PALINDROMES EYE, REFER, ROTATOR, SELES
  • BLUE: HORROR MOVIES MINUS "S" GREMLIN, JAW, SINNER, TREMOR
  • PURPLE: STARTING WITH SLANG FOR ZERO JACKET, NADAL, SQUATTER, ZIPPER
  • My rating: Hard
  • My score: 3 mistakes

I got caught out early on by a tennis-based group today, guessing SINNER, NADAL, OSAKA and SELES but getting it wrong. OSAKA is also a city as well as a surname, of course, so I put that with LIMA, NICE and PHOENIX and solved yellow.

Looking again, I thought I spotted a palindromic group: EYE, NADAL, SELES and REFER. And I was right — sort of, because I got one away. But which one? Well, another look at the board turned up ROTATOR, so I knew what the extra word was, but had no idea which of the original four to drop. I was going to have to solve another group first…

I did that by spotting that JAW, SINNER, TEMOR and GREMLIN were all 'horror movies minus an S', but that didn't directly help me solve the palindrome group. So I tried again: NADAL, SELES, ROTATOR and REFER. But got one away again. And then I realized my mistake: NADAL is not a palindrome. What an idiot!

So I went with the other four and finally got green, leaving just the purple to solve by default. And what was that? A very sneaky one: STARTING WITH SLANG FOR ZERO. Phew! 

Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Saturday, March 7, game #1000)

  • YELLOW: $1 BUCK, DOLLAR, ONE, SINGLE
  • GREEN: "WHEREFORE ART THOU ROMEO?" ART, ROMEO, THOU, WHEREFORE
  • BLUE: WORDS BEFORE "CASTLE" BOUNCY, NEW, SAND, WHITE
  • PURPLE: WHERE YOU MIGHT MAKE A CONNECTION AIRPORT, DATING APP, INTERNET CAFE, THIS GAME

What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

Marc McLaren
Marc McLaren
Global Editor in Chief

Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief, the latest in a long line of senior editorial roles he’s held in a career that started the week that Google launched (nice of them to mark the occasion). Prior to joining TR, he was UK Editor in Chief on Tom’s Guide, where he oversaw all gaming, streaming, audio, TV, entertainment, how-to and cameras coverage. He's also a former editor of the tech website Stuff and spent five years at the music magazine NME, where his duties mainly involved spoiling other people’s fun. He’s based in London, and has tested and written about phones, tablets, wearables, streaming boxes, smart home devices, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, games, TVs, cameras and pretty much every other type of gadget you can think of. An avid photographer, Marc likes nothing better than taking pictures of very small things (bugs, his daughters) or very big things (distant galaxies). He also enjoys live music, gaming, cycling, and beating Wordle (he authors the daily Wordle today page).

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