Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers for March 24, #652

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Today’s Connections puzzle could be tricky. There’s a stinky category, and one related to video games that you might have to think about for a while. 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 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: Hold your nose.

Green group hint:  Steady.

Blue group hint: Think video-game categories.

Purple group hint: Cake often has this.

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow group: Bad-smelling.

Green group: Unfluctuating.

Blue group: Who video games are for, per ESRB ratings.

Purple group: Things with layers.

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What are today’s Connections answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is bad-smelling. The four answers are foul, rank, ripe and sour.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is unfluctuating. The four answers are constant, level, stable and uniform.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is who video games are for, per ESRB ratings. The four answers are adults only, everyone, mature and teen.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is things with layers. The four answers are Earth, henhouse, onion and Photoshop.