NYT ‘Connections' Hints For Friday, June 6: Clues And Answers For Today's Game
Each day's game of NYT Connections goes live at midnight local time. Before we get to today's Connections hints and answers, here are Thursday's:
Hey there, Connectors! The weekend is almost upon us. I hope it's a terrific one for you.
If you're looking for some weekend reading, I would suggest checking out Tending Gardens. In this newsletter, "novice writer and farmer" Kana Chan provides a look into life in the rural village of Kamikatsu, Japan's first zero-waste municipality.
It's always a joy to look in my inbox and see one of these notes about a style of living that's completely different to mine. In the most recent edition of Tending Gardens, Chan – who moved to Japan after growing up in Canada – wrote about Japanese vocabulary and learning words in the local dialect that are related to slow living:
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Today's NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, June 6 are coming right up.
Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT's website or Games app.
You're presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.
There's only one solution for each puzzle, and you'll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.
Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.
Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you're incorrect, you'll lose a life. If you're close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you're one word away from getting it right, but you'll still need to figure out which one to swap.
If you make four mistakes, it's game over. Let's make sure that doesn't happen with the help of some hints, and, if you're really struggling, today's Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it's easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.
If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication's Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.
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...
And the hints for today's Connections groups are:
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we're starting to get into spoiler territory.
Let's take a look at one word for each group.
Today's Connections word hints are…
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...
We had at least two groups with five possibilities here:
Let me tell you my heart swelled when I saw that there was a bunch of journalism-related words. NEWSHOUND didn't quite fit, though, as it's not a description of a job. That stood out to me and as I looked at the construction of the word (and the very out-of-place SNICKERDOODLE), the purples quickly became clear.
I wasn't quite sure about the two groups other than the journalism jobs, so I cleared the yellows to get a better look at those. For what it's worth, when anyone asks me what I do for a living, I tend to say I'm a writer or blogger. I sometimes do some actual reporting (and I'm officially a "contributing reporter" elsewhere), but I mainly put words together on blogs. That's what I do.
ROUTINE seemed the most likely to go with SWINDLE, CRIMINAL and DRAWBACK, so I made a guess with those four and was one away. Booo. On closer inspection, CONVENTION starts with "con," which can also mean a scam, so that made more sense. Indeed, that got me the blues. A slightly different connection than I had in mind, but I'll take it.
That left the greens for victory. I had no problem figuring out the connection there.
For the record, here's how I fared with this one:
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That's all there is to it for today's Connections clues and answers. I'll be back with you all here on Monday. In the meantime, you can check out my weekend editions of this column in my newsletter, Pastimes.
P.S. I've no idea why this song popped into my head the other day, but it did, so I thought I'd share it with you all. I saw colonopenbracket open for a fun band called Drive-By Argument a very long time ago. I enjoyed their set quite a bit and "Cute" is my favorite thing I've heard from them.
It's in the chiptune genre (think music made with the soundcard of old Nintendo consoles) and the musicality here is quite interesting. It sounds little like Owl City. Appropriately enough, I find this song rather cute:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Call someone you love!
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