Looking for help with today’s NYT Connections? Here are all the hints, clues, and answers for Connections #1006 on March 13, 2026.
What Is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections challenges players to group 16 words into four categories of four, finding the hidden theme that links each group. Categories are color-coded by difficulty: yellow is easiest, green is medium, blue is hard, and purple is the trickiest. You get four mistakes before the game ends.
If you enjoy word puzzles, also check out our March 12, 2026 NYT Connections #1005 hints and answers.
How to Play Connections
- Group four words that share a hidden common theme
- Start with the color you feel most confident about
- Use the shuffle button to spot patterns you may have missed
- Share your results on social media, just like Wordle
For an extra challenge, try the March 11, 2026 NYT Connections Sports Edition #534 hints and answers published earlier this week.
Hints for Connections #1006 — March 13, 2026
Not ready for the full answers? Here are gentle category hints:
- 🟨 Yellow (Easiest): Words or phrases meaning “I’d rather not” — polite or casual ways to decline
- 🟩 Green: Types you’d study in a mathematics class — think number theory
- 🟦 Blue: Famous or iconic barriers that share a common word — think architecture and storytelling
- 🟪 Purple (Hardest): These words sound exactly like something else — but that something else isn’t a number at all, just sounds like one
Today’s Connections Categories — March 13, 2026
Here are the actual category names:
- 🟨 Yellow: “NO THANKS”
- 🟩 Green: KINDS OF NUMBERS
- 🟦 Blue: KINDS OF WALLS
- 🟪 Purple: HOMOPHONES OF NON-NUMERIC AMOUNTS
Full answers:
- 🟨 “NO THANKS”: LATER, NAH, NEXT TIME, PASS
- 🟩 KINDS OF NUMBERS: EVEN, IRRATIONAL, PERFECT, PRIME
- 🟦 KINDS OF WALLS: BERLIN, BRICK, FOURTH, GREAT
- 🟪 HOMOPHONES OF NON-NUMERIC AMOUNTS: AWL, NUN, PHEW, SUM
Today’s puzzle had some sharp misdirection. EVEN, PERFECT, and PRIME all feel into a category about something admirable or ideal — but they’re strictly mathematical terms here. The purple group is the sneakiest: AWL (all), NUN (none), PHEW (few), and SUM (some) are homophones of indefinite quantity words, not actual numbers, which makes this category genuinely deceptive. Players who went hunting for number homophones like ONE or TWO would have been thrown off entirely.
Tips for Solving Today’s Puzzle
- Don’t let PASS fool you into sports territory — in today’s yellow group, it simply means declining, not throwing a ball or skipping a turn.
- IRRATIONAL is the key unlock for the green group — once you place it with number types, EVEN, PERFECT, and PRIME all click into place around it.
- For the blue group, ask what kind of wall it could be — BERLIN, BRICK, FOURTH, and GREAT all precede or modify “wall” in a famous real or cultural context.
- Sound it out for purple — AWL sounds like “all,” NUN like “none,” PHEW like “few,” and SUM like “some.” These are amounts, but none of them are numeric.
Don’t feel discouraged if today’s puzzle stumped you. A brand new Connections puzzle resets at midnight, and we’ll have fresh hints and answers ready.