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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, #647, in case you're reading this in a different time zone. You may like NYT Connections today hints and answers — Wednesday, March 19 (#647) NYT Connections today hints and answers — Monday, March 17 (#645) Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #648. 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: Genie, Bungee, Strait, Vocal, Ship, Extension, Direct, Message, Loud, Sound, Spinal, Channel, Umbilical, Bay, Lightning, and Frank. 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: Outspoken 🟩 Green: Bodies of water 🟦 Blue: Kinds of cords 🟪 Purple: Things in bottles 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: Clear out your cord drawer for a bottle of water that's a little loud. Today's Connections answers So, what are today's Connections answers for game #648? Drumroll, please... 🟨 Outspoken: Direct, frank, loud, vocal 🟩 Bodies of water: Bay, channel, sound, strait 🟦 Kinds of cords: Bungee, extension, spinal, umbilical 🟪 Things in bottles: Genie, lightning, message, ship The first pair of words that popped out to me were direct and frank. Perusing the board, I saw loud and vocal. I assumed this was the yellow group so I skipped them for the other groups. Bay and channel stuck out to me as coastal waters. This lead to sound and strait mostly because I was picturing maps of the Seattle area. From there I saw umbilical and thought 'cord.' Quickly grabbed extension, spinal and bungee for what I thought was the purple set. Alas, it was the blue. This left the purple group as things in bottles; genie, lightning, message and ship. And I wrapped up the day by finally putting in the yellow group. Yesterday's Connections answers 🟨 Signify: Convey, express, mean, spell 🟩 Web browser buttons: Back, extensions, forward, refresh 🟦 Parts of a road: Divider, lane, median, shoulder 🟪 À/a la ____: Carte, king, mode, plancha Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #646, which had a difficulty rating of 3 out of 5, according to the Connections Companion. Thought I had a nice down the line going today but messed up with that dang yellow. Ah well. I saw carte and my inclination was a la carte. A la mode stuck out next, which made me want some ice cream. I forgot about a la plancha for a moment, which means grilled on a metal plate. I got the blue category next as I was looking for more of a math connection with mean and median. It wasn't working but I saw divider and figured for roads. Lane and shoulder leapt out next. I was looking for green next but but in convey, express, mean and spell first. I guessed wrong, it was the yellow group. So we ended with back, extensions, forward and refresh as web browser buttons. 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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