Get NYT Connections Hints for March 27, 2025. Find hints and solutions for puzzle #655, including word connections and hidden categories.
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SCRATCH: Cats scratch furniture to mark territory, but humans buy furniture to mark their territory. Who's really the more primitive species?
Each word can indicate making contact or influence
Think about gestures and body movements
Affect
CHIP: A potato chip is just a potato that went through tough times and came out crispy instead of bitter.
You might hear these when something is accurate
Positive response indicators
You got it!
CORRECT: Being correct is overrated - mistakes built civilizations while perfection built nothing.
Many relate to modifications or alterations
Think about adjustments and transformations
Slang for money
REACH: We're all trying to reach for the stars when stars are actually reaching out to us through light years of darkness.
These are all technological or scientific terms
Each word has both concrete and wave-related meanings
Objects with the prefix “micro-”
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Hint: Affect
Hint: You got it!
Hint: Slang for money
Hint: Objects with the prefix “micro-”