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Spoiler warning: The complete answers to NYT Connections puzzle #1,006 for Friday, March 13, 2026 appear below. Stop at the hint level you want before continuing.
Spoiler warning: The complete answers to NYT Connections puzzle #1,006 for Friday, March 13, 2026 appear below. Stop at the hint level you want before continuing.
How NYT Connections works
Connections gives you 16 words or short entries. Your task is to sort them into four groups of four. The groups often overlap in tempting ways, so some words are deliberate decoys. You can make up to four mistakes before the puzzle ends.
Yellow is generally the most accessible group, while purple often depends on wordplay—but that difficulty pattern is only a tendency, not a rule. In this puzzle, several entries look mathematical, and several others can be paired with wall.
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The 16 words in Connections #1,006
- PERFECT
- BRICK
- PASS
- NUN
- GREAT
- AWL
- PRIME
- SUM
- PHEW
- NAH
- FOURTH
- EVEN
- NEXT TIME
- BERLIN
- IRRATIONAL
- LATER
Hints for today’s groups
Here are progressively stronger clues, without immediately giving away every answer:
| Color | Hint |
|---|---|
| Yellow | A polite—or not-so-polite—way to decline. |
| Green | Different mathematical classifications of numbers. |
| Blue | Add or associate the word “wall” with each entry. |
| Purple | Say the words aloud. Each sounds like a word describing an amount or quantity. |
Category-level nudges
- Yellow: Two entries are casual refusals; the other two put off accepting something until later.
- Green: These are four recognized types or classifications of numbers.
- Blue: Think of a famous divided city, a building material, a theater convention, and a huge landmark.
- Purple: The spellings are misleading. Their sounds point to four quantity words, including one meaning “not any.”
NYT Connections answers for March 13, 2026
These are the complete answers for puzzle #1,006.
Yellow: NO THANKS
LATER, NAH, NEXT TIME, PASS
These are ways to reject, defer, or decline an offer. NAH and PASS are direct refusals. LATER and NEXT TIME can be softer or temporary ways to say no.
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Green: KINDS OF NUMBERS
EVEN, IRRATIONAL, PERFECT, PRIME
Each word describes a mathematical type or property of number. Even numbers are divisible by two; irrational numbers cannot be expressed as a ratio of two integers; prime numbers have exactly two positive divisors; and perfect numbers are a recognized number category based on the relationship between a number and the sum of its proper divisors.
Blue: KINDS OF WALLS
BERLIN, BRICK, FOURTH, GREAT
These form familiar wall references: the Berlin Wall, a brick wall, the fourth wall in theater, and the Great Wall. FOURTH relies on the phrase “breaking the fourth wall,” while GREAT becomes much more specific when paired with Wall.
Purple: HOMOPHONES OF NON-NUMERIC AMOUNTS
AWL, NUN, PHEW, SUM
Read aloud, these sound like ALL, NONE, FEW, SOME:
| Entry | Sounds like |
|---|---|
| AWL | ALL |
| NUN | NONE |
| PHEW | FEW |
| SUM | SOME |
This is the puzzle’s most overtly phonetic group. The answers describe quantities or amounts, but they do so through homophones rather than matching spellings.
Why this grid is deceptive
The puzzle places several number-related words close together conceptually, but they do not all belong in the mathematical group. SUM looks like an obvious math term, yet it belongs in purple because it sounds like some. Likewise, GREAT may initially seem like a general positive adjective, but it becomes a wall reference in Great Wall.
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BRICK is another useful decoy. It is a material rather than a landmark or named structure on its own, but brick wall completes the blue category. The overlapping associations are the point: Connections rewards finding four entries that share one precise relationship, not merely a broad theme.
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| Yellow | Green | Blue | Purple |
|---|---|---|---|
| LATER | EVEN | BERLIN | AWL |
| NAH | IRRATIONAL | BRICK | NUN |
| NEXT TIME | PERFECT | FOURTH | PHEW |
| PASS | PRIME | GREAT | SUM |
That is the solution for NYT Connections #1,006, dated March 13, 2026. Return for the next dated puzzle’s hints and answers.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the NYT Connections answers for March 13, 2026?
NYT Connections puzzle #1,006 has four groups: NO THANKS; KINDS OF NUMBERS; KINDS OF WALLS; and homophones of non-numeric amounts.
What is the purple category in Connections #1,006?
The purple group is AWL, NUN, PHEW, and SUM. Said aloud, they sound like ALL, NONE, FEW, and SOME.
What is the trickiest word in today’s Connections puzzle?
SUM is the main mathematical-looking decoy. It belongs in purple because it sounds like “some,” rather than in the green number group.
The Bottom Line
The four groups are NO THANKS: LATER, NAH, NEXT TIME, PASS; KINDS OF NUMBERS: EVEN, IRRATIONAL, PERFECT, PRIME; KINDS OF WALLS: BERLIN, BRICK, FOURTH, GREAT; and homophones of quantity words: AWL, NUN, PHEW, SUM.
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