Welcome back, Connectioneers! If you’re looking for help with today’s puzzling NYT Connections puzzle, I’m here to offer my assistance with some extra clues and the solutions to the Yellow, Blue, Green and Purple groups.
It’s the first Sunday of June
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Today’s Connections is a 2/5 difficulty according to Connections Bot. Let’s solve it!
If you’re looking for Saturday’s Connections guide, it’s right here.
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.
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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.
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.
NYT Connections Hints And Answers – Sunday, June 7
Below, we’ll get into some extra hints for each Connections group – Yellow, Blue, Green and Purple – and then the official clues and answers.
Here are today’s Connections words:
- express
- step
- thin
- wave
- voice
- core
- total
- pop
- gauzy
- trash
- level
- utter
- sheer
- state
- gossamer
- gut
Here’s an Extra Hint for Each Connections Group
- 🟡Yellow group – Careful, your clothing might be see-through
- 🔵Blue group – Destroy utterly
- 🟢Green group – Say something
- 🟣Purple group – You might dance to these
One Word for Each Connections Group:
- 🟡Yellow group – sheer
- 🔵Blue group – total
- 🟢Green group – state
- 🟣Purple group – wave
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today:
- 🟡Yellow group – Translucent, as fabric
- 🔵Blue group – Demolish
- 🟢Green group – Speak
- 🟣Purple group – Music genre suffixes
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. The Connections answers are:
- 🟡Yellow group – gauzy, gossamer, sheer, thin
- 🔵Blue group – gut, level, total, trash
- 🟢Green group – express, state, utter, voice
- 🟣Purple group – core, pop, step, wave
Here’s the finished grid:
Today’s NYT Connections was a 3/5 on the Connections Bot difficulty scale. I was thrown off by some red herrings at first. TOTAL and UTTER can both mean, well, total. I also wasn’t sure if SHEER could be one of the Blue words once I’d decided they meant something like demolish, but I went with GUT (hey, it’s like going with your gut) and that was the right move. The Green words were a little wonky, though I managed to get those first somehow.
I admit, also, that when I clicked the four Purple words I hadn’t figured out the Connection yet, and when I saw that they were music genre suffixes I felt kind of stupid. It’s pretty obvious in hindsight, as Purple groups often are!
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