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Need help with NYT Connections for March 22, 2025? Puzzle #650 groups 16 words into four categories. Start with the hints below, then reveal the complete answer key when you’re ready.
Connections #650 hints for March 22, 2025
Try to solve each category before moving on to the answers. The hints become more specific as you go.
- Yellow: Music creation tools.
- Green: A novelty.
- Blue: These words share a numerical origin.
- Purple: Each word has a common abbreviation that begins with T.
What are the Connections answers for March 22?
The four groups in puzzle #650 are musical instruments, knickknacks, words beginning with the prefix for “three,” and words commonly abbreviated with T followed by another letter. The complete groups are:
Yellow: Musical instruments
- TAMBOURINE
- THEREMIN
- TIMPANI
- TROMBONE
Green: Knickknacks
- TCHOTCHKE
- THINGAMAJIG
- TRIFLE
- TRINKET
Blue: Words with the prefix meaning “three”
- TRIANGLE
- TRIDENT
- TRILLION
- TRILOBITE
Purple: Words abbreviated with “T” plus another letter
- TELEVISION (TV)
- TOUCHDOWN (TD)
- TRADEMARK (TM)
- TUBERCULOSIS (TB)
How the groups connect
The instrument group combines four names for musical instruments. The green words refer to a small decorative object, an unspecified thing, or something of little importance. The blue connection is the prefix tri-, meaning “three”; it is a word-origin link, not a claim that all four things come in sets of three. The purple words are commonly shortened to two-letter forms beginning with T: TV, TD, TM, and TB.
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The answer groups are also listed in the YourDictionary WordFinder Connections archive. For contemporaneous hints and answers, see the Times of India guide published March 22, 2025.
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