If you are looking for Connections Wednesday March 20, 2024 answers, keep reading — I will share some clues, tips, strategies, and finally solutions for all four categories. Along the way I'll explain the meanings of the trickier words and we'll see how everything fits together. Please note, there are spoilers below for the March 20 issue of NYT Connections #283! If you want some tips (and answers) for today's game of Wired, keep reading.
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Below, I'll give you some indirect hints on today's connection answers. Further down the page I will reveal the topics and answers. Scroll slowly and get the tips you need!
Topic prompt for today’s connect puzzle
Here are some grouping tips from today’s Wired (no spoilers):
Yellow Category - Where you watch football matches.
Green Category - If you have a great memory, you will remember these.
Blue Category - Maybe seen in an Italian restaurant.
Purple Category - Hidden Musicians.
PLEASE NOTE: Today's Connect Puzzle contains spoilers!
We're about to give you some answers. If you don't want to spoil the whole thing, scroll slowly. (Full solution a little below.)
A note on the tricky bits
Bad news, folks. This match was so difficult that I actually lost the second time. I will try my best to help you learn from my mistakes.
Neapolitan cheese and Parmesan cheese are both foods. They are also words for places in Italy (literally "from Naples" and "from Parma").
HASSELBLAD is a camera company; art photographers love their medium format cameras. Olympus is a mountain in Greece... and a camera company.
When it comes to cameras, KISSCAM and JUMBOTRON don't go together. JUMBOTRON means what you think of as functionality, and you can go ahead and combine it with something like SCOREBOARD.
On the other hand, KISSCAM belongs to the same group as RUSHMORE. What do they have in common? I'll let you figure that out.
What are the categories of connectivity today?
Yellow: Appears in sports venues
Green: camera brand
Blue: Italian Devil
Purple: Start with a rock band
Be extra careful: here’s the solution
Ready to get the answers to today’s connectivity dilemmas? I've given them all below.
What's the yellow word in today's connection?
The yellow grouping is considered the most straightforward. The theme of today's yellow group is "SEEN AT A SPORTS STADIUM", the text is: ASTROTURF, JUMBOTRON, SCOREBOARD, SKYBOX.
What's the green word in Connections today?
The green grouping should be the second easiest. The theme of today’s green group is camera brands, with the words: FUJIFILM, HASSELBLAD, OLYMPUS, and POLAROID.
What's the blue word in today's Wired?
The blue group is the second hardest. Today's theme for the blue category is Italian Devil, with the words: Bologna, Naples, Parma, Venice.
What is the purple word in today's connection?
The purple group is considered the hardest. The theme of today's purple group is "Start with a rock band", and the words are: CREAMSICLE, JOURNEYMAN, KISSCAM, RUSHMORE.
How I solved my connection issues today
So many long words! And compound words! And the correct name! Hey, I'll put this on the board full of two-letter words.
KISSCAM and JUMBOTRON are both video features you may have seen at the stadium (probably from your SKYBOX). SCOREBOARD fits, but so does ASTROTURF. I'll come back to this again.
HASSELBLAD is a camera, so it can fit POLAROID, OLYMPUS and FUJIFILM. ?
BOLOGNESE and NEAPOLITAN are both food words (pâté and ice cream) and also Italian place names. PARMESAN might also be a place (yes: Parma, Italy), VENETIAN is another Italian name. ?
None of this helps with my football stadium words, and besides the compound word, I can't figure out what the remaining three words have in common. Well, it’s time to take a guess. SKYBOX, KISSCAM, JUMBOTRON, scoreboard are all available! ASTROTURF replaces SKYBOX? One point left!
Well. Are KISSCAM, JUMBOTRON, SCOREBOARD and RUSHMORE the large displays you are looking forward to? No, not even a goal .
All right. We know that when it comes to ASTROTURF/SKYBOX, it's either all right or both wrong. Of the three I combined with RUSHMORE, only two were correct. So here's nothing: ASTROTURF, SKYBOX, KISSCAM and JUMBOTRON. (I omitted the scoreboard.) No! The intuition about categories is right, but the groupings are wrong.
purple. rock band. Really? ?
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How to play connect
I have a complete guide to playing Connections , but here's a recap of the rules:
First, find the Connections game on the New York Times website or their game app (formerly known as the Crossword Puzzle app). You will see a game board with 16 tiles, each with a word or phrase. Your task is to select a set of four tiles that have something in common. Usually they are the same type of thing (for example: RAIN, SLEET, HAIL, and SNOW are all types of wet weather), but sometimes a play on words is involved (for example, BUCKET, GUEST, TOP TEN, and WISH are all types) List : Last Wish lists, guest lists, etc.).
Select four projects and click the Submit button. If you guessed correctly, the category and color will be displayed. (Yellow is easiest, followed by green, then blue, then purple.) If your guess is incorrect, you'll be given a chance to try again.
You win when you correctly identify all four groups. But if you make four mistakes before finishing, the game will be over and the answer will be revealed.
How to win connections
The most important thing to know when it comes to winning connections is that grouping design is tricky. Expect to see overlapping groups. For example, one puzzle appeared to include six breakfast items: bacon, eggs, pancakes, omelets, waffles and cereal. But it turns out that BACON belongs to the same group of painters as CLOSE, MUNCH, and WHISTLER, while EGG belongs to a dozen groups of painters (along with JUROR, ROSE, and MONTH). So don’t hit “submit” until you’ve confirmed that your foursome only contains these four things.
If you're stuck, another strategy is to look at words that don't seem to be connected to other words. If when you see "Whistler" all that comes to mind is the painting nicknamed "Whistler's Mother," then you probably get the idea. When I was figuring this out, I ended up searching on Google to see if there was a painter named Close, since Close didn't fit any obvious themes either.
Obviously, another way to win when you're stuck is to read some helpful tips - which is why we share them every day. Check back tomorrow for the next puzzle!
