If you’re looking for hints and answers for the New York Times Connections puzzle for March 24, 2025, read on. This guide shares clues, strategies, and the solutions to all four categories, along with an explanation of the meanings of trickier words.
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Here are some oblique hints to aid you in today's Connections answers. The yellow category, as you’ll see, ties in with unpleasant odors; the green relates to stability; the blue category is all about video game ratings; and the purple category includes items that are constructed with layers.
Today’s puzzle incorporates fascinating themes alongside essential wordplay: for instance, RIPE can mean both a fruit ready to eat and something aged. Themes for each segment of today’s Connections are as follows:
Yellow category: Ew, that stinks. The words are FOUL, RANK, RIPE, and SOUR.
Green category: The opposite of dynamic, reflecting stability. Here, you’ll see CONSTANT, LEVEL, STABLE, and UNIFORM.
Blue category: These define who video games cater to according to ESRB ratings—ADULTS ONLY, EVERYONE, MATURE, and TEEN.
Purple category: These are things with layers including EARTH, HENHOUSE, ONION, and PHOTOSHOP.
Always remember, while playing, to approach overlapping groupings carefully, as a single word might appear to fit into multiple categories. For instance, MATURE and ADULTS ONLY clearly signal the age restrictions associated with video games, leading to the conclusion of the blue grouping quickly.
In today’s grouping, bad odors are straightforward but deceptive; FOUL, RANK, RIPE, and SOUR all relate. The unchanging theme of stability can be easily seen in CONSTANT, LEVEL, STABLE, and UNIFORM.
For the final purple challenge, link layers to EARTH’s structure, the HENHOUSE’s egg-bearing purpose, the multi-layering in ONIONs, and finally, PHOTOSHOP’s capacity to manipulate image files into layers.
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