Looking for a hint for today’s Connections puzzle? Below, we have clues to help you unlock whichever category has you stumped for the puzzle on March 30, 2025.

Connections first launched on the New York Times in June 2023. The premise is deceptively simple: Players have to find the thematic connection of four groups of four words … without making more than four mistakes.

Today’s Connections has categories about a seal that can’t swim, words for “mid” and more.

Below are the hints, categories and answers for today’s Connections game, puzzle #658, on March 30.

A hint for each Connections category today, March 30

Yellow group hint: Middle of the road

Green group hint: Items on a national symbol

Blue group hint: On the Great White Way

Purple group hint: Opposite of woman

A word in each Connections category today, March 30

Yellow group word: Mean

Green group word: Arrows

Blue group word: Birdie

Purple group word: Bogey

Connections categories today, March 30

Yellow group category: Average

Green group category: Pictured on the U.S. Great Seal

Blue group category: Proper nouns in Broadway musical titles that are spoken phrases

Purple group category: ____ man

Here are the answers to Connections today, March 30

What are the yellow words in today’s Connections? 

Average: Mean, norm, par, standard

What are the green words in today’s Connections? 

Pictured on the U.S. Great Seal: Arrows, eagle, olive branch, shield

What are the blue words in today’s Connections? 

Proper nouns in Broadway musical titles that are spoken phrases: Birdie, Dolly, Kate, Yankees

What are the purple words in today’s Connections? 

____ man: Bogey, crafts, gentle, spokes

Deanna Janes