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Ay caramba! Today’s Connections puzzle has one of those wacky purple categories, and it involves a famous animated family. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.
The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.
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Hints for today’s Connections groups
Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group, to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.
Yellow group hint: Dig into your pockets.
Green group hint: Not current.
Blue group hint: Simple shapes.
Purple group hint: D’oh!
Answers for today’s Connections groups
Yellow group: Expenditure.
Green group: Onetime.
Blue group: Made with horizontal lines
Purple group: Simpson family members with first letter changed.
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What are today’s Connections answers?
The completed NYT Connections puzzle for Feb. 26, 2025, #626.
The yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is expenditure. The four answers are charge, cost, price and rate.
The green words in today’s Connections
The theme is onetime. The four answers are former, late, past and prior.
The blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is made with horizontal lines. The four answers are dash, hyphen, minus and underscore.
The purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is Simpson family members with first letter changed. The four answers are baggie, barge, comer and Pisa.
Toughest Connections puzzles
We’ve made a note of some of the toughest Connections puzzles so far. Maybe they’ll help you see patterns in future puzzles.
#5: Included “things you can set,” such as mood, record, table and volleyball.
#4: Included “one in a dozen,” such as egg, juror, month and rose.
#3: Included “streets on screen,” such as Elm, Fear, Jump and Sesame.
#2: Included “power ___” such as nap, plant, Ranger and trip.
#1: Included “things that can run,” such as candidate, faucet, mascara and nose.