Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers for March 2, #630

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Today’s Connections puzzle has a couple of tricky categories. The blue one relies on a certain letter of the alphabet, and the purple one finds a word that relates to four of the other words. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.

The Times now has a Connections Botlike the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progressincluding number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.

Read more: Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time

Hints for today’s Connections groups

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group, to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group hint: Ring-ring!

Green group hint: Steer clear.

Blue group hint: Double you.

Purple group hint: Kittens play with this

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow group: Cellphone modes

Green group: Evade

Blue group: What “W” might stand for

Purple group: ____ string

Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words

What are today’s Connections answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is cellphone modes. The four answers are airplane, do not disturb, ring and vibrate.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is evade. The four answers are dodge, escape, lose and shake.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is what “W” might stand for. The four answers are tungsten, watt, West and win.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is ____ string. The four answers are draw, ham, heart and shoe.