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🎯 Today’s Connections Answers (March 18, 2026) 🔗

YELLOW: INTERVAL
PATCH, PERIOD, SPELL, STRETCH
GREEN: REACT TO A STUBBED TOE
CURSE, HOP, WINCE, YELL
BLUE: GUITAR EFFECTS PEDALS
DELAY, REVERB, WAH, WHAMMY
PURPLE: ___ CHECK
BLANK, COAT, RAIN, REALITY

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Yellow (interval):PATCH, PERIOD, SPELL, STRETCH
Green: (react to a stubbed toe)CURSE, HOP, WINCE, YELL
Blue (guitar effects pedals):DELAY, REVERB, WAH, WHAMMY
Purple (Check) :BLANK, COAT, RAIN, REALITY
Yellow (metaphors for trouble):BIND, HOT WATER, JAM, PICKLE
Green: (music theory concepts)KEY, PITCH, SCALE, TONE
Blue (things with strings):BALLOON, KITE, TEA BAG, YO-YO
Purple (metaphors for quickness) :ARROW, LIGHTNING, ROCKET, WIND
Yellow (animal group names):GAGGLE, PACK, POD, PRIDE
Green: (things associated with being slow)GLACIER, MOLASSES, SLOTH, TRAFFIC
Blue (silent "W"):CARTWRIGHT, TWO, WRATH, WRESTLE
Purple (words that sound like state abbreviations) :ANY, EMMY, ENVY, OKAY
Yellow (Greedily Control):bogart, corner, hog, monopolize
Green: (Portmanteaux)blog, motel, smog, spork
Blue (Toothed Wheels):cog, gear, pinion, sprocket
Purple (Bull) :dog, doze, frog, horn
Yellow (Hypnotic State):DREAM, HAZE, SPELL, TRANCE
Green: (Starting with Prefixes Meaning “Two”)BINARY, DIOXIDE, DUOLINGO, TWILIGHT
Blue (Fictional Inspectors):CLOUSEAU, GADGET, JAVERT, MORSE
Purple (Ending in Female Animals) :HOOTENANNY, LICHEN, MOSCOW, NIGHTMARE
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