Looking for clues for today’s Connections answers? The Connections answers on March 27 for puzzle #655 leaps up in difficulty compared to yesterday’s puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle’s difficulty at 4.2 out of 5.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today’s answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren’t enough, you’ll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.
Plus, we’re including a reflection on yesterday’s puzzle, #654, in case you’re reading this in a different time zone.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #655. Only read on if you want to know today’s Connections answers.
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Today’s Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Unlike our guide to today’s Wordle answer, where we recommend the best Wordle start words as your strategy, solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category’s difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you’ve made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
Today’s Connections words are: Phone, Sway, Scratch, Wave, Right, Chip, Paper, Ding, Correct, Scope, Touch, Green, Move, Bingo, Change, and Reach.
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Affect
- 🟩 Green: You got it!
- 🟦 Blue: Slang for money
- 🟪 Purple: Objects with the prefix “micro-“
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today’s Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Here’s a larger hint: Get emotional as you correctly nab the money for some micro technology.
Today’s Connections answers
So, what are today’s Connections answers for game #655?
Drumroll, please…
- 🟨 Affect: Move, reach, sway, touch
- 🟩 You got it!: Bingo, correct, ding, right
- 🟦 Slang for money: Change, green, paper, scratch
- 🟪 Objets with the prefix “micro-“: Chip, phone, scope, wave
Today, got a bit harder and it took me a moment staring at the grid for anything to pop out to me.
Thing that grabbed me first was scratch which I thought of money. That opened things up and I picked up paper, green and then change.
Then we got things right with bingo, correct, and ding.
From there I snagged the yellow group because I was not making the purple connection. This one was move, reach, sway, touch.
Purple made me groan because it was one of those that I should have known. The last four were microchip, microphone, microscope, and microwave.
Yesterday’s Connections answers
- 🟨 Parts of a table setting: Fork, glass, napkin, plate
- 🟩 Increased with “up”: Flew, rose, shot, thrust
- 🟦 Kinds of digital storage: card, cloud, disk, drive
- 🟪 Units of volume plus letter: Bounce, galleon, pinot, quartz
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #654, which had a difficulty rating of 3.2 out of 5, according to the Connections Companion.
I started the day seeing fork and napkin and was thinking of fancy dinner, probably inspired by pinot. From there I grabbed plate and glass for table settings.
The grid shift helped me see cloud and drive for storage. That made it easier to lock in on card and disk.
I still wasn’t sure what the purple was here but took a strike putting together flew, shot, thrust and bounce. My focus was on putting pinot and rose together as drinks/wine and the four I picked were words meaning upward motion. I swapped bounce with rose as it was the only thing left that meant going up.
At this point I’m fairly certain that if my life depended on sussing out a purple category where you need to remove a letter or add one to make it work I would die.
I never saw the units of volume hidden in bounce (ounce), galleon (gallon), pinot (pint), and quartz (quart). Fortunately, it was my wrap up category.
