Each day’s game of NYT Connections goes live at midnight local time. Before today’s NYT Connections hints, here’s what you missed on Tuesday:
It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: it’s time for another round of Connections!
Today’s a big day as Scotland have a chance to book their spot in the knockout stages of a men’s World Cup for the very first time. There’s only the small matter of taking on Brazil this evening. There’s a chance we could lose and still go through, but I would love to take care of things now and get a draw or a win so we don’t have to rely on results in other games.
I do think we can get a positive result here. As talented as Brazil are in attack, their defense isn’t top tier. Plus Andy Robertson knows a thing or two about his old Liverpool teammate Alisson Becker.
Alas, I won’t be going to a bar to watch this one. Today is Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day, a public holiday in Quebec. So it’ll be packed everywhere. I would rather not deal with all that, so I’ll enjoy/endure 90 minutes of Scotland vs. Brazil in front of my TV.
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Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, June 24 are coming right up. Let’s get rolling!
NYT Connections – How To Play
Connections is a free New York Times daily word game that you can play on the NYT’s website or Games app. If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the Connections archive, which includes every previous game.
Connections presents you with a grid of 16 words (sometimes phrases, symbols or numbers). The aim is to arrange them into four groups of four. You don’t know how they hit together or what the category for each group is: that’s what you have to figure out.
There’s only one correct solution and there are often red herrings. You can guess incorrectly three times. A fourth wrong guess, and it’s game over.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to deduce, followed by blue, green and purple. Often, the yellow and green groups have synonyms, the blues have cultural references and the purples have some kind of wordplay involved. But this is not a hard and fast rule. Be ready for curveballs – part of the fun of Connections is in how the NYT shakes things up to keep you on your toes.
As with Wordle and similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends using an emoji-based grid. The game tracks your progress too.
Many players take pride in having long win streaks or getting a reverse rainbow – correctly guessing the purple, blue, green and yellow groups in that order with no mistakes. That adds an extra little challenge.
Today’s NYT Connections Word List
Scroll slowly! I’ll first give you a list of today’s words, then a hint for each category. After that, I’ll reveal one word that goes into each group. Then I’ll tell you the category names, followed by the full answers.
Today’s 16 words are…
- HUMPTY DUMPTY
- TOASTER
- PINK FLOYD
- MONEY
- KOOL-AID MAN
- HELTER SKELTER
- CHINA
- RUSH
- CHICK FLICK
- DEADPOOL
- LUGGAGE
- GENESIS
- CLIFFORD
- MUMBO JUMBO
- KING CRIMSON
- MR. KRABS
Today’s NYT Connections Hints
And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:
- 🟨 Yellow group — one thing after another for these groups
- 🟩 Green group — helping to start (what hopefully will be) a lifetime of happiness
- 🟦 Blue group — flash, shazam and po would fit in here
- 🟪 Purple group — merged with poetic license
NYT Connections – One Answer Per Group
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Let’s take a look at one answer for each group.
Here we go…
- 🟨 Yellow group — RUSH
- 🟩 Green group — MONEY
- 🟦 Blue group — DEADPOOL
- 🟪 Purple group — MUMBO JUMBO
Today’s NYT Connections Categories
Today’s Connections groups are…
- 🟨 Yellow group — prog bands
- 🟩 Green group — classic wedding gifts
- 🟦 Blue group — red characters
- 🟪 Purple group — rhyming compound words
Today’s NYT Connections Answers
Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.
This is your last chance to look away.
This is your final warning!
Today’s Connections answers are…
I knocked out the yellows pretty swiftly. No issues there. The red fictional characters were next up for the blues. As soon as CLIFFORD The Big Red Dog popped into my head, that was that.
I figured the rhyming phrases had to be the greens, so I went for the remaining terms first. Alas, the wedding gifts formed the green group instead. That left the purples for me 479th win on this run.
How did you get on this time? 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 check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for tomorrow’s game if you need them.
P.S. As I mentioned in the intro, today brings Scotland’s final group game of this World Cup. So, I’m going to mark the occasion with a song from the Scottish band. I’m going with the brilliant Primal Scream and “Rocks,” a bluesy rock song from their 1994 album Give Out but Don’t Give Up. I say it all the time: even a great song can be made better with a brass section. Such a catchy track:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!
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