Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers for March 17, #645

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Today’s Connections puzzle has an especially fun purple category today. Have you ever noticed musical groups who don’t just put words in their band names, but use numbers as well? Yep, that’s a hint. Rock on, and 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: Thin piece of cord, maybe.

Green group hint: Whee!

Blue group hint: Vroom-Vroom.

Purple group hint: Music, and a number.

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow group: Filament.

Green group: Uninhibitedness.

Blue group: Kinds of trucks.

Purple group: Bands minus the number five.

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 filament. The four answers are fiber, strand, string and thread.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is uninhibitedness. The four answers are abandon, freedom, spontaneity and unrestraint.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is kinds of trucks. The four answers are dump, garbage, monster and pickup.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is bands minus the number five. The four answers are Ben Folds, Jackson, Maroon and MC.