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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 Monday, 16th March? Mondays are hard enough on their own. Combining that with an extra tough Connections puzzle is enough to start your week off on the wrong foot!

If you’ve found yourself stuck on today’s Connections puzzle, stress no more! Get back in that bed and hop out of it on the right side with the help of our Connections guide. Whether you just need a gentle nudge or a full push into the right answers, we have you covered.

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:

• CARTWRIGHT
• MOLASSES
• ANY
• EMMY
• ENVY
• GAGGLE
• GLACIER
• OKAY
• PACK
• POD
• PRIDE
• SLOTH
• TRAFFIC
• TWO
• WRATH
• WRESTLE

Connections hint for Monday 16th March

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow hint: Non-human clubs.
• Green hint: They really drag on.
• Blue hint: Think of things you see but cannot hear.
• Purple hint: Say them out loud.
• Extra hint 1: Sound can matter more than spelling.
• Extra hint 2: Every group has at least one word containing the letter ‘I’

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

• Yellow: Pride
• Green: Glacier
• Blue: Wrath
• Purple: Envy

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: Animal Group Names
• Green: Things Associated With Being Slow
• Blue: Silent ‘W’
• Purple: Words That Sound Like State Abbreviations

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 Monday, 16th March:

• Yellow: Animal Group Names (Gaggle, Pack, Pod, Pride)
• Green: Things Associated With Being Slow (Glacier, Molasses, Sloth, Traffic)
• Blue: Silent ‘W’ (Cartwright, Two, Wrath, Wrestle)
• Purple: Words That Sound Like State Abbreviations (Any, Emmy, Envy, Okay)

This Connections grid has a little bit of everything. Sound, spelling, and just enough stress to make it fit with your usual Connections puzzle! I found myself, yet again, tripped up by the U.S. state abbreviations group. At least that one would have been easy pickings for our friends in the United States.

Luckily the yellow group fell into place quickly for me; that really saved the day. Once you get a win, you get that rush of satisfaction that gives you the strength to figure out the rest!

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!

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