If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission.
Read our editorial policy.

Here’s your Connections hint for Saturday Mar 14

Need a Connections hint? Read our guide for help with Connections #1006.

Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT

Guide
by
Laura-May Randell
Contributor Published on March 14, 2026 Follow Connections

This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 18th March!

Looking for some Connections hints to help with today’s puzzle on Saturday, 14th March? Connections is designed to test your problem-solving skills, your vocabulary, your general knowledge, and most of all, your sanity.

If one or more of those skills are letting you down this time, don’t worry! We have subtle hints and full answers in this guide so you can slay Connections for another day.

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”. These are the kinds of Connections you’ll need to make to solve the puzzle.

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: Today’s Connections words

Below you’ll find various hints for today’s Connections. Each of the below hints will make it progressively easier for you to solve today’s puzzle. First we’ll reveal the words in today’s Connections, followed by our Connections hint for each group. Then we’ll reveal one word inside each group, followed by the groups themselves; and finally, at the bottom of this page, we’ll reveal the answers to today’s Connections puzzle. Here are the 16 Connections words for today:

NIGHTMARE
TWILIGHT
HOOTENANNY
DUOLINGO
CLOUSEAU
BINARY
DIOXIDE
DREAM
GADGET
HAZE
JAVERT
LICHEN
MORSE
MOSCOW
SPELL
TRANCE

Connections hint for Saturday 14th March

Here are your Connections hints for today:

Yellow hint: Away with the fairies.
Green hint: The beginning is the most important part.
Blue hint: They’re always on the case.
Purple hint: The end is the most important part this time!
Extra hint 1: Sometimes sound and structure matter more than meaning.
Extra hint 2: Each group has at least one word containing the letter ‘A’

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

Yellow: Dream
Green: Duolingo
Blue: Clouseau
Purple: Nightmare

Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!

Connections hints: All of 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: Hypnotic State
Green: Starting With Prefixes Meaning ‘Two’
Blue: Fictional Inspectors
Purple: Ending in Female Animals

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!

Connections answer today

Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Saturday, 14th March:

Yellow: Hypnotic State (Dream, Haze, Spell, Trance)
Green: Starting With Prefixes Meaning ‘Two’ (Binary, Dioxide, Duolingo, Twilight)
Blue: Fictional Inspectors (Clouseau, Gadget, Javert, Morse)
Purple: Ending in Female Animals (Hootenanny, Lichen, Moscow, Nightmare)

That one was a real brain-teaser! More than one group had me chasing my tail this time; purple was one of them, of course! But green was close behind. I didn’t actually know that ‘twi’ meant ‘two,’ although the word ‘twice’ should have been a big enough clue. That fact alone sent me down a rabbit hole about the origins of ‘twilight.’

Twilight is the in-between stage of light, just as day is ending and night begins. In other words, it’s made up of both daylight and night. Two types of light at once makes ‘twi’light! It’s amazing how many words you say and hear without pausing to think about their true meaning.

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!