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It’s a lovely weekend, though I’m a little sad it’s already the last weekend of June. My favorite month of the year, come and gone. Summer has begun in earnest and the 4th Of July is just around the corner. I suppose we’ll get some kind of patriotism-themed Connections that day, though usually when Connections have a “theme” it’s a headfake. In any case, we have some words to group. Let’s get right to it!
How To Play Connections
Connections is the second-most popular NYT Games puzzle game outside of the main crossword itself, and an extremely fun, free offering that will get your brain moving every day. Play it right here.
The goal is to take a group of 16 words and find links between four pairs of four of them. They could be specific categories of terms, or they could be little world puzzles where words may come before or after them you need to figure out. And they get more complicated from there.
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There is only one set of right answers for this, and you only get a certain number of tries so you can’t just spam around until you find something. There are difficulty tiers coded by color, which will usually go from yellow, blue/green to purple as difficulty increases, so know that going in and when you start linking them together.
You pick the four words you think are linked and either you will get a solve and a lit up row that shows you how you were connected. If you’re close, it will tell you that you’re one away. Again, four mistakes you lose, but if you want to know the answers without failing, either come here, or delete your web cookies and try again. If you want to play more puzzles, you can get an NYT Games subscription to access the full archives of all past puzzles.
What Are Today’s Connections Hints?
These are the hints that are laid out on the puzzle board itself, but after that, we will get into spoiler territory with some hints and eventually the answers.
- Jerk
- Sundae
- Puddle
- Earthworm
- Floss
- Bolt
- Robot
- Startle
- Mushroom
- Cabbage Patch
- Jump
- Mud
- Moonwalk
- Float
- Shake
- Split
Hints for the Connections groups today are:
- 🟡Yellow group – A good summer dessert.
- 🔵Blue group – Shake your body.
- 🟢Green group – When something scares you, you do this.
- 🟣Purple group – Look to your feet.
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today:
- 🟡Yellow group – Ice Cream Treats
- 🔵Blue group– Dance Moves
- 🟢Green group – Flinch
- 🟣Purple group – Seen In The Aftermath Of A Rainstorm
What Are Today’s Connections Answers?
The full-on answers are below for each group, finally inserting the four words in each category. Spoilers follow if you do not want to get this far. The Connections answers are:
- 🟡Yellow group – Float, Shake, Split Sundae
- 🔵Blue group – Cabbage Patch, Floss, Moonwalk, Robot
- 🟢Green group – Bolt, Jerk, Jump, Startle
- 🟣Purple group – Earthworm, Mud, Mushroom, Puddle
Not a terribly difficult Connections today. The one that got me was the dance moves. My first choice was EARTHWORM for this group, as I pictured that dance breakdancers do on the ground, though I think it’s just called the worm. In any case, I swapped that out for CABBAGE PATCH and that worked. I was pretty certain that the purple words would be all the stuff you find in the ground, but I guessed what I suspected the green words were first. I got these all in order in the end, from yellow to blue to green to purple. I still think this puzzle would be more fun and just a tiny bit more challenging if they’d include a poison word or red herring, something to throw us off a bit more. One word that didn’t fit. But maybe that would be too much.
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