Looking for clues for today’s Connections answers? The Connections answers on February 28 for puzzle #628 down a bit in difficulty compared to yesterday’s puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle’s difficulty at 2.8 out of 5.
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, #627, in case you’re reading this in a different time zone.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #628. Only read on if you want to know today’s Connections answers.
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Today’s Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
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: Peach, Yo-yo, Egg, Marbles, Toothpaste, Waffle, Doll, Mind, Genie, Angel, Sense, Hesitate, Waver, Wits, Bell, and Dear.
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Be indecisive
- 🟩 Green: Lovely person
- 🟦 Blue: Lucidity
- 🟪 Purple: Components of metaphors for things that can’t be undone
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: Be a doll and keep your wits about you before making a decision that can’t be undone.
Today’s Connections answers
So, what are today’s Connections answers for game #628?
Drumroll, please…
- 🟨 Be indecisive: Hesitate, waffle, waver, yo-yo
- 🟩 Lovely person: Angel, dear, doll, peach
- 🟦 Lucidity: Marbles, mind, sense, wits
- 🟪 Components of metaphors for things that can’t be undone: Bell, egg, genie, toothpaste
With the two-rated puzzles, I like to try going down the line and I blew that up with my first go when I picked dear, doll, angel and peach, the green group. In my mind the connection was an overly familiar old man talking to a waitress at the dinner.
Marbles, to me, immediately means mind. So, sense, wits and mind were quick grabs.
And in the latest in absurdly long category titles just this week, I nabbed the purple group next for things that can’t be undone like ringing a bell, cracking an egg, putting toothpaste in the tube or putting the genie back in the bottle.
And we left yellow for last with hesitate, waffle, waver and yo-yo. On to the next one.
Yesterday’s Connections answers
- 🟨 Contact via telephone: Call, dial, phone, ring
- 🟩 Parts of a car: Belt, horn, mirror, wheel
- 🟦 Levels of biological organization: Atom, cell, organ, tissue
- 🟪 Ending with units of measure: Bigfoot, compound, Instagram, thermometer
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #627, which had a difficulty rating of 3.3 out of 5, according to the Connections Companion.
What stuck out to me was Instagram, perhaps obviously, so I started looking for apps like Phone and…thermometer? That one didn’t work.
From there I did follow phone to call, ring and dial. I assumed that was the yellow and saved it.
What I actually started with was organ and tissue. From there I saw atom and cell and assumed biology. Close enough.
I saw horn and wheel and was thinking car. Horn followed but I wasn’t clicking with belt for a moment.
So I hit bigfoot, compound, instagram, and thermometer as a stopgap. got it.
Then we wrapped up with green and followed with yellow.
