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Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers.

And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers.

NYT Connections board for March 29, 2024: HAPPY, PRETTY, SHINY, SKY, BABY, LADY, ARMY, NAVY, TIFFANY, LIVERY, COLONY, REALLY, MIGHTY, DAISY, VERY, GOOFY.

Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need!

Green category - Beloved cartoons.

Blue category - Blue category.

Purple category - Subtract a letter, get something else.

BEWARE: Spoilers follow for todays Connections puzzle!

Were about to give away some of the answers.

Scroll slowly if you dont want the whole thing spoiled.

(The full solution is a bit further down.)

We have a lot of adjectives in English that end in Y, like VERY.

And then we have a lot of names and nicknames that end in Y.

The purple category today is the kind that will make you throw your phone out the window.

Specifically, theyre words that have something in common when you take the Y off.

What are the categories in todays Connections?

I give them all away below.

What are the yellow words in todays Connections?

The yellow grouping is considered to be the most straightforward.

What are the green words in todays Connections?

The green grouping is supposed to be the second-easiest.

What are the blue words in todays Connections?

The blue grouping is the second-hardest.

What are the purple words in todays Connections?

The purple grouping is considered to be the hardest.

How I solved todays Connections

GOOFY tipped me off to the green group.

Hes a Disney character.

REALLY and VERY are both modifiers youd use to strengthen an adjective, like VERY fast.

You could also use MIGHTY and PRETTY the same way.

NAVY blue and SKY blue are colors; so is BABY blue.

TIFFANY blue is adistinctive robins-egg colorused by the jewelry company on their boxes.

Ill take the freebie.

Youll see a game board with 16 tiles, each with one word or phrase.

Your job is to select a group of four tiles that have something in common.

Select four items and hit the Submit button.

If you guessed correctly, the category and color will be revealed.

(Yellow is easiest, followed by green, then blue, then purple.)

If your guess was incorrect, youll get a chance to loop back and try.

You win when youve correctly identified all four groups.

But if you make four mistakes before you finish, the game ends and the answers are revealed.

Expect to see overlapping groups.

So dont hit submit until youve confirmed that your group of four containsonlythose four things.

If youre stuck, another strategy is to look at the words that seem to havenoconnection to the others.

Check back tomorrow for the next puzzle!