Looking for clues for today’s Connections answers? The Connections answers on March 17 for puzzle #645 are a full point harder than yesterday’s puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle’s difficulty at 3 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, #645, in case you’re reading this in a different time zone.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #646. 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: Kinder, Dice, Singular, Die, Oxen, Special, Deer, Lice, Unique, Sheep, Squid, Angst, Mice, Wurst, Remarkable, and Shrimp.
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Exceptional
- 🟩 Green: German words
- 🟦 Blue: Plural animals identical to their singular forms
- 🟪 Purple: Plural words that are very different from their singular forms
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 hints: Practice your German and get your grammar books out for singular plurals.
Today’s Connections answers
So, what are today’s Connections answers for game #646?
Drumroll, please…
- 🟨 Exceptional: Remarkable, singular, special, unique
- 🟩 German words: Angst, die, kinder, wurst
- 🟦 Plural animals identical to their singular forms: Deer, sheep, shrimp, squid
- 🟪 Plural words that are very different from their singular forms: Dice, lice, mice, oxen
I found this puzzle very interesting with what it was doing with the categories. Especially once you kick out the green group, which is where I started.
I lived in Germany as a kid so I think of the German “kin-der” before I think of the English “kind-er” when I see that word. So I was thinking German, wurst and die were obvious to me from there. It did take a moment to find angst because I forgot that it’s originally German.
The yellow group stuck out from the animals, so knocked that out with remarkable, singular, special and unique.
I knew what the blue and purple categories were doing but I took a moment because I was trying to guess which was blue and which purple.
I guessed wrong.
I grabbed, deer, sheep, shrimp and squid which was blue but the meaning is that the plural and single versions of the words are the same ala moose or fish.
Which left purple with words that are vastly different from their singular forms, meaning they don’t just add an ‘S.’ We had dice, lice, mice, and oxen.
Yesterday’s Connections answers
- 🟨 Filament: Fiber, Strand, String, Thread
- 🟩 Uninhibitedness: Abandon, Freedom, Spontaneity, Unrestraint
- 🟦 Kinds of Trucks: Dump, Garbage, Monster, Pickup
- 🟪 Bands minus the number five: Ben Folds, Jackson, Maroon, MC
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #645, which had a difficulty rating of 2 out of 5, according to the Connections Companion.
Today’s puzzle was rated much easier than yesterday’s, and it really felt like it. I blazed down the line, starting with the yellow category. It was easy enough to piece together with Fiber, Strand, String, and Thread.
I suspected Maroon and Jackson had something to do with the “five” missing from their names, but I didn’t recognize any other bands so I put that on the back burner. Glancing around the remaining clues, I noticed a common definition among the words Abandon, Freedom, Spontaneity, and Unrestraint, which sealed the green category.
After that came blue, which was easy to pick up with Dump, Garbage, Monster, and…well… Pick-up.
That only left Jackson, Maroon, MC, and Ben Folds for the purple category as today’s rote fill. I hadn’t heard of the last two, so it’s little wonder I didn’t pick them out.