Hey there, Connectors! Welcome to the weekend!

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I enjoy reading pretty much all of the team’s work, but I especially loved a recent story about how one of the writers earned enough rewards from relocating Citi Bikes (bicycles used in a New York City bike-sharing program) to pay for a Nintendo Switch 2. It’s a great, entertaining read, though there are broader issues to consider here, particularly when author Chris Person zooms out to examine this program from a labor standpoint.

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Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, February 28 are coming right up.

Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.

Today’s 16 words are...

The level one hints for today’s Connections groups are:

🟨 Yellow group — but I reeeeealllly want it

🟩 Green group — [YouTube link]

🟦 Blue group — [YouTube link]

🟪 Purple group — spaced out

Be warned: we’re really starting to get into spoiler territory.

Let’s take a look at one word for each group.

Today’s Connections word hints are…

Need some extra help?

Today’s Connections groups are...

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections answers are...

NOVAK jumped out right away. The obvious reference there is to tennis great Djokovic, but nothing else made sense sport-wise. However, "nova" lined up with "star" in START and "comet" in COMETH. Then I realized that "sun" in SUNG made sense with those. That got me the purples.

I somehow blanked on TAILOR when I decided to submit the four other jobs I spotted. I didn't clock that travel was involved in the greens, but I was happy to luck my way to a group there.

RUSTLE and EARNEST then made the blues stand out to me (they refer to Ernest, Russell, Neil and Taylor). The yellow category was easy enough to figure out too.

Really happy to get a perfect game today. And that extends my streak to 364 wins. That's surely not too significant?

How did you get on today? Here's my grid:

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That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to subscribe to my newsletter for hints and the solution for Sunday’s game if you need them.

P.S. It's been at least a week since we've had a heavy rock song as a recommendation, and that doesn't sit right with me. Let's fix that right now with "Good Boy" by Saint Agnes.

This is the first thing I'd heard from this band and yup, this alternative/industrial rock tune is totally my jam. Not least because of what Saint Agnes said about it over on Instagram: "Good Boy was written to be a scathing critique of obedient, subservient men who uphold the capitalist death cult, feed the machine and call it a virtue." Hell yeah. This rips:

Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!

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