Need a nudge before seeing the answers? Start with the four spoiler-light hints below for the Friday, March 6, 2026, NYT Connections puzzle, game #999. The full categories and word groups are farther down, after a clear spoiler warning.
Hints for Connections #999
Try these clues before revealing the category names or the four solved groups.
- Yellow: Take without giving.
- Green: Keep it hidden.
- Blue: Meanings for a particular symbol.
- Purple: Brainpower, but missing an element.
Spoiler warning: answers below
The following section gives away all four categories and their words.
Yellow — FREELOADER
LEECH, MOOCH, PARASITE, SPONGE are terms for someone who takes support or resources without giving much back.
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Green — CONCEALING COVER
BLANKET, CLOAK, CURTAIN, LAYER can each cover or hide something.
Blue — WAYS ONE MIGHT REFER TO #
HASH, NUMBER, POUND, SHARP are names or uses for the same symbol: the hash or number sign, the pound key, and the sharp sign in music notation. POUND is the best-supported tile for this group; TechRadar, Parade, and Forbes list it, while GameDaily lists POINT instead. TechRadar, Parade, Forbes, GameDaily.
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Purple — WORDS FOR LUCIDITY, IN THE SINGULAR
FACULTY, MARBLE, SENSE, WIT can refer to clear or sound thinking, as in “mental faculty,” “good sense,” and “wit,” or the idiom “lose one’s marbles.”
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SPONGE, MARBLE, POUND, and LAYER can all suggest types of cake. That is a plausible red herring, but those four words belong to different Connections groups in this puzzle.
About this puzzle
Connections #999 is the Friday, March 6, 2026 puzzle. Its sixteen tiles are divided into four color-coded groups of four. This guide reflects the matching groups independently reported by TechRadar and Parade, with Forbes explaining the category connections; it is secondary coverage, not an official NYT answer record.
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