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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, #627, in case you're reading this in a different time zone. You may like NYT Connections today hints and answers — Thursday, February 27 (#627) NYT Connections today hints and answers — Wednesday, February 26 (#626) Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #628. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers. Alternatively, visit our how to play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help. Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it (Image credit: New York Times) 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: Peach, Yo-yo, Egg, Marbles, Toothpaste, Waffle, Doll, Mind, Genie, Angel, Sense, Hesitate, Waver, Wits, Bell, and Dear. Sign up to get the BEST of Tom's Guide direct to your inbox. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsBy submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty: 🟨 Yellow: Be indecisive 🟩 Green: Lovely person 🟦 Blue: Lucidity 🟪 Purple: Components of metaphors for things that can't be undone 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:Be a doll and keep your wits about you before making a decision that can't be undone. Today's Connections answers So, what are today's Connections answers for game #628? Drumroll, please... 🟨 Be indecisive: Hesitate, waffle, waver, yo-yo 🟩 Lovely person: Angel, dear, doll, peach 🟦 Lucidity: Marbles, mind, sense, wits 🟪 Components of metaphors for things that can't be undone: Bell, egg, genie, toothpaste With the two-rated puzzles, I like to try going down the line and I blew that up with my first go when I picked dear, doll, angel and peach, the green group. In my mind the connection was an overly familiar old man talking to a waitress at the dinner. Marbles, to me, immediately means mind. So, sense, wits and mind were quick grabs. And in the latest in absurdly long category titles just this week, I nabbed the purple group next for things that can't be undone like ringing a bell, cracking an egg, putting toothpaste in the tube or putting the genie back in the bottle. And we left yellow for last with hesitate, waffle, waver and yo-yo. On to the next one. Yesterday's Connections answers 🟨 Contact via telephone: Call, dial, phone, ring 🟩 Parts of a car: Belt, horn, mirror, wheel 🟦 Levels of biological organization: Atom, cell, organ, tissue 🟪 Ending with units of measure: Bigfoot, compound, Instagram, thermometer Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #627, which had a difficulty rating of 3.3 out of 5, according to the Connections Companion. What stuck out to me was Instagram, perhaps obviously, so I started looking for apps like Phone and...thermometer? That one didn't work. From there I did follow phone to call, ring and dial. I assumed that was the yellow and saved it. What I actually started with was organ and tissue. From there I saw atom and cell and assumed biology. Close enough. I saw horn and wheel and was thinking car. Horn followed but I wasn't clicking with belt for a moment. So I hit bigfoot, compound, instagram, and thermometer as a stopgap. got it. Then we wrapped up with green and followed with yellow. See more Gaming News Scott Younker Social Links Navigation West Coast Reporter Scott Younker is the West Coast Reporter at Tom’s Guide. He covers all the lastest tech news. He’s been involved in tech since 2011 at various outlets and is on an ongoing hunt to build the easiest to use home media system. When not writing about the latest devices, you are more than welcome to discuss board games or disc golf with him. You must confirm your public display name before commenting Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name. 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