NYT Connections Hints and Answers — Friday, March 13, 2026 (Puzzle #1006)
Today's NYT Connections puzzle #1006 is live and ready to solve. Here are progressive hints first, followed by the full answers. Stop scrolling when you have enough to finish on your own.
Today's Connections 16 Words
All 16 words in today's Connections puzzle are: PRIME, BRICK, FOURTH, IRRATIONAL, PERFECT, NEXT TIME, LATER, PASS, SUM, EVEN, GREAT, NUN, PHEW, NAH, AWL, and BERLIN.
Hints — No Spoilers Yet
Yellow — Easiest: These are casual, conversational ways to politely say no to plans. Think texting a friend when you cannot make it.
Green: These are all specific classifications of a type of number you learned about in math class. Think broadly about how numbers get labeled.
Blue: Each word can precede or describe a famous kind of physical barrier or structure. Think historically significant walls from around the world.
Purple — Hardest: Classic NYT wordplay. Each word is a homophone of something that describes an amount — but none of them are actually numbers.
Full Answers — Complete Spoilers Below
Here are all four complete category answers for NYT Connections puzzle #1006:
Yellow — "No Thanks": LATER, NAH, NEXT TIME, PASS
Green — Kinds of Numbers: EVEN, IRRATIONAL, PERFECT, PRIME
Blue — Kinds of Walls: BERLIN, BRICK, FOURTH, GREAT
Purple — Homophones of Non-Numeric Amounts: AWL, NUN, PHEW, SUM
Breaking Down the Trickiest Group
The Purple category is today's biggest trap. AWL sounds like "all," NUN sounds like "none," PHEW sounds like "few," and SUM sounds like "some" — each one a homophone of a quantity word that is not technically a number.
The danger zone today was SUM and EVEN pulling solvers toward the math group. PRIME and PERFECT also look like non-math words at first glance, making the Green category deceptively hard to lock down early. Start with Yellow — it is the most airtight group on the board.
