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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, #641, in case you're reading this in a different time zone. You may like NYT Connections today hints and answers — Thursday, March 13 (#641) NYT Connections today hints and answers — Sunday, March 9 (#637) Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #642. 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: Dirt, Candy, Fine, Silk, Short, Charging Cable, Rocky, Levy, High, Film Series, Magazine, Charge, Epic, Chapstick, Assess, and Feature. 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: Partiality 🟩 Green: Signal down, as a taxi 🟦 Blue: Cards in Texas Hold 'Em 🟪 Purple: Shakespearean words 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:Consider the movies, take a road, and don't charge too much with checkout line purchases. Today's Connections answers So, what are today's Connections answers for game #642? Drumroll, please... 🟨 Impose, as a penalty: Assess, charge, fine, levy 🟩 Checkout line impulse buys: Candy, chapstick, charging cable, magazine 🟦 Movies of various lengths: Epic, feature, film series, short 🟪 ____ Road: Dirt, high, rocky, silk I keep starting with the blues recently, and today I did not buck the trend. Film series as a rare two word clue leapt out to me. Because I was next to magazine I was thinking of issues to start but that goes nowhere with this board. Feature and short stuck out next as types of films. Epic made the most sense from there. Film series is the sore thumb here as it's not a movie of a various length and is instead a series of movies. C'est la vie. I snagged the yellow group next with assess, charge, fine and levy. Though I was initially looking for a stock market connection not fines. I put together candy, chapstick and magazine as checkout purchases. Charging cable stuck out here but only because I don't think I've ever just bought a cable hanging out nearing a check stand. Which left the roads last. I don't know, I never saw this one as I went about the puzzle. That said, I also just kind of flow from one group to the next as they come to me, which is perhaps not the logical way to attack these puzzles but it works for me. Anyway the final four were: dirt road, high road, rocky road and silk road. Yesterday's Connections answers 🟨 Partiality: Angle, bias, slant, spin 🟩 Signal down, as a taxi: Flag, hail, wave, whistle 🟦 Cards in Texas Hold 'Em: Flop, hole, river, turn 🟪 Shakespearean words: Anon, art, thou, wilt Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #641, which had a difficulty rating of 3.3 out of 5, according to the Connections Companion. Every time I swing through a poker category in any place in my life I am amazed I know any of the words associated with a card game I dislike playing. Anyway, river and flop are obvious poker terms to me. Turn works next. Hole is the one I had to dig around to find. I forgot that hole cards refer to the two cards that individual players get dealt. I grabbed the green quartet next seeing flag and hail where I thought, "Taxi." Wave and whistle came quickly after. For linguistics fans, the Shakespearean words making up the purple category are a nice reminder of how many words from the bard's plays make up common English today. The four from this puzzle are anon, art, thou and wilt. And we wrapped it up with the yellow group of angle, bias, slant and spin for partiality. 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. 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