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Hints for Connections #633
Try each clue before scrolling to the category labels or answer key. The puzzle’s words are BITE, ONION, SOFT, KICK, PICKLE, SKIRT, ALLERGY, RELIEF, PAINT, DODGE, EDGE, CLIP, BORDER, FILE, MELODRAMA, and FRINGE.
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- Yellow: “On the outside.”
- Green: “Cuticle activities.”
- Blue: “Things to make you blub.”
- Purple: “Add a rhyme with ‘wall’ to make a game.”
Category labels
Spoilers: These labels reveal the four group themes, but not which words belong to each group.
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- Green: THINGS PEOPLE DO TO FINGERNAILS
- Blue: WHAT MIGHT BRING TEARS TO YOUR EYES
- Purple: __BALL RECREATIONAL SPORTS
Full answers for March 5, 2025
Full spoiler: The groups and their words are listed below.
- Yellow — PERIPHERY: BORDER, EDGE, FRINGE, SKIRT.
- Green — THINGS PEOPLE DO TO FINGERNAILS: BITE, CLIP, FILE, PAINT.
- Blue — WHAT MIGHT BRING TEARS TO YOUR EYES: ALLERGY, MELODRAMA, ONION, RELIEF.
- Purple — __BALL RECREATIONAL SPORTS: DODGE, KICK, PICKLE, SOFT.
Why PAINT can seem ambiguous
PAINT may suggest paintball, which makes it a tempting association with the purple sports group. In the published solution, however, PAINT belongs with BITE, CLIP, and FILE as an activity people do to their fingernails. The purple set is DODGE, KICK, PICKLE, and SOFT, each completing a recreational sport ending in “ball.”
Which puzzle is this?
This guide covers game #633, dated Wednesday, March 5, 2025—not a current-day puzzle. The contemporaneous guide says a new puzzle appears at midnight in each time zone, so “today” can refer to different puzzles depending on where and when you play. The date and game number identify this answer key precisely.
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Where to play
At the time the contemporaneous guide was published, it described Connections as playable for free through NYT Games on desktop or mobile. That statement reflects the guide’s publication context and is not a claim about current access terms.
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