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NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, March 30 (game #1023)

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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 Sunday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, March 29 (game #1022).

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.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.

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

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NYT Connections today (game #1023) - today's words

NYT Connections today (game #1023) - hint #1 - group hints

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

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 #1023) - hint #2 - group answers

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

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

NYT Connections today (game #1023) - the answers

The answers to today's Connections, game #1023, are…

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BLUE: CAR RENTAL COMPANIES AVIS, BUDGET, DOLLAR, HERTZ

PURPLE: SNACK BRANDS PLUS STARTING LETTER FRITZ, PLAYS, TRUFFLES, YUTZ

All the TZ tiles were very tempting to stick into a group together, but the fact that HERTZ appears alongside some other CAR RENTAL COMPANIES (BUDGET, DOLLAR, AVIS) put me off that connection.

With that out of the way I remembered that ERSATZ was a term a critic friend of mine used to use when he really wanted to call a band or piece of music phoney and derivative, and that definition seemed to fit with DUMMY, MOCK and FAUX.

With just eight tiles left I could not really see much in the way of links, beyond a couple of good names for a small dog, but gambled on four words that sounded like they were about fooling around.

It took me a couple of goes as I had PLAYS instead of FUTZ, but I eventually connected PLAY AROUND (WITH).

Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Sunday, March 29, game #1022)

YELLOW: IMAGES SEEN ON THE STREET GRAFFITI, MURAL, POSTER, STENCIL

GREEN: RETRO DANCE CRAZES HUSTLE, MASHED POTATO, ROBOT, TWIST

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 is Tech Radar’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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