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Looking for clues for today's Connections answers? The Connections answers on March 31 for puzzle #1,024 are much harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.8 out of 5.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.
Article continues belowToday's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Unlike our guide to today's Wordle answer, where we recommend the best Wordle start words as your strategy, solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
Today's Connections words are: Wireless, Plank, Kit Kat, Crunch, Push-up, Sports, Chick Flick, Cannon, Calf Raise, Crow's Nest, Pinch, Plunge, Jolly Roger, Absence, Fry Cook, Deficit
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Shortage
- 🟩 Green: Parts of a pirate ship
- 🟦 Blue: Kinds of bras
- 🟪 Purple: Starting with baby animals
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Here's a larger hint: I don't have enough booty to cover my chest while I eat veal.
Today's Connections answers
So, what are today's Connections answers for game #1,024?
Drumroll, please...
- 🟨 Shortage: Absence, Crunch, Deficit, Pinch
- 🟩 Parts of a pirate ship: Cannon, Crow's nest, Jolly Roger, Plank
- 🟦 Kinds of bras: Plunge, Push-up, Sports, Wireless
- 🟪 Starting with baby animals: Calf raise, Chick flick, Fry cook, Kit Kat
This was a really fun Connections puzzle, and I actually got green first, quickly locking in the pirate theme. Arr.
From there, I noticed the lacking theme offered by yellow, which led me to the Shortage clue.
From there, I was stumped for a few moments as I have to admit I've never heard of a plunge bra. I got the other three as bra styles, and I got a lucky guess on my second try. If you know more about bras, then you might find this puzzle to be super easy.
Obviously, once I had the blue locked in, there were only four words left, which made it easy to get the starting with baby animals clue.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Imitation: Dummy, ersatz, faux, mock
- 🟩 Play around (with): Futz, mess, tinker, toy
- 🟦 Car rental companies: Avis, Budget, Dollar, Hertz
- 🟪 Snack brands plus starting letter: Fritz, plays, truffles, yutz
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1022, which had a difficulty rating of 1.8 out of 5.
I just got back from a flight on Friday, so the headache of car rentals is what immediately came to mind when I saw Hertz and Avis. After looking around, I realized dollar and budget could fit with them too for blue.
Ersatz, I remembered from "A Series of Unfortunate Events," and it seemed a synonym for faux and mock but I felt like a dummy trying to find the last clue for as long as I did.
Then I hopped over to green with futz, mess, tinker, and toy.
That left purple as today's rote fill with fritz, plays, truffles, and yutz.
Connections tips — how to win at Connections
There are two ways to play Connections, get the answers as you solve them or solve for the hardest group, Purple, first.
For either playstyle, the best tip I can give is to not be afraid of the shuffle button, especially if you’ve solved a set but you’re certain it isn’t the Purple group. You can shuffle the grid until your solved quartet is in a somewhat staked off area.
For the purple group, you can expect to see a handful of category types: words missing a letter, homophones, words with specific suffixes or prefixes, and [blank] word (or word [blank]). There are others, but this is a majority of what you’ll see. It can help to look for purple connections through one of those lenses.
If you’re not hunting for purple specifically, then the best advice I have is to look for smaller connections. For example, Riddler and Joker are Batman villains. Once you’ve grouped that duo together it’s easier to find another set.
Finally, watch out for traps. Occasionally, the Connections makers like to throw in a set of words that should seem very obvious to most people. But picking them can give you a strike, something you want to save for when you aren’t really sure between a couple of clues.
The tricky bit is that sometimes the very obvious foursome is actually one of the answers (usually the yellow or green levels).
One way to work around this is to note the four clues you think are an obvious set. Highlight them by selecting the words but don’t hit submit. From there take a second look around the grid to see if anything else stands out to you.
Often these super obvious sets are actually individually spread out between the four groups. So, if you see Wick, Neo, Ted and Mnemonic, you might immediately think of Keanu Reeves movies, but it's a trick. Instead, use the individual words as launching points to discover other connections.
If you're new to the game you should also take a look at our How to play Connections guide.
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