Clues And Answers For Today’s Game
Find the links between the words to win today’s game of Connections.
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 Sunday’s:
Hey there, Connectors! Welcome to the start of a new week. I hope it’s a terrific one for you. Also, we’re into June, so Happy Pride!
In case you’re just joining us, you should know that I like to start the Monday editions of this column with an upbeat song. Y’know, to hopefully get you moving around a little, shake off any cobwebs and help ensure you’re in a sunny mood.
I know I’ve used this song as a regular recommendation before (I include one at the end of the column every day!). Still, I really only had one choice for how to open things today.
I think it’s safe to say that “Pink Pony Club” by Chappell Roan is a generational queer anthem. I don’t think there’s any other track that makes me both dance and well up every single time I hear it. This is such a wonderful, inspiring song, a truly beautiful banger. It’s forever a reminder of how important it is for us all to live as authentically and as true to ourselves as possible:
Before we begin, we have a great little community on Discord, where we chat about NYT Connections, the rest of the NYT games and all kinds of other stuff. Everyone who has joined has been lovely. It’s a fun hangout spot, and you’re more than welcome to hang out with us.
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Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, June 2 are coming right up.
How To Play Connections
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.
Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find our hints via Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.
What Are Today’s Connections Hints?
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…
- SPHYNX
- TREASURE
- MARKDOWN
- ODYSSEY
- JACKPOT
- FRANKINCENSE
- MYRRH
- VALUE
- NYMPH
- JOURNEY
- ESTEEM
- NICKNAME
- VOYAGE
- PRIZE
- RHYTHM
- QUEST
And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:
- Yellow group — adventure time!
- Green group —
- Blue group — like spy and gym
- Purple group — mackintosh and rickshaw would fit in here, ‘k?
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Need some extra help?
Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.
Today’s Connections groups are…
- Yellow group — expedition
- Green group — hold dear
- Blue group — words whose only vowel is “Y”
- Purple group — names ending in “K” plus word
What Are Today’s 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 final warning!
Today’s Connections answers are…
- Yellow group — expedition (JOURNEY, ODYSSEY, QUEST, VOYAGE)
- Green group — hold dear (ESTEEM, PRIZE, TREASURE, VALUE)
- Blue group — words whose only vowel is “Y” (MYRRH, NYMPH, RHYTHM, SPHYNX)
- Purple group — names ending in “K” plus word (FRANKINCENSE, JACKPOT, MARKDOWN, NICKNAME)
Folks, that’s win number 97 in a row for your ol’ pal, Kris. And with a perfect game too. Three more to go… Here’s how I fared:
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MYRRH and RHYTHM were dead giveaways for the blues. With MYRRH out of commission, that meant there was probably some wordplay going on with FRANKINCENSE. I mean, in what other context do you ever hear that word?
I thought there might have been a group of words related to discounts with MARKDOWN and VALUE in the mix, but not much else made sense. I realized that VALUE made more sense with PRIZE and TREASURE, and that gave me the greens.
The yellows were very obvious at that point and it only took one look at what were clearly the purples to figure out the connection there (I swear, the puzzle creator is on a mission to make it impossible to write good hints). Purples, yellows, done.
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 Tuesday’s game if you need them.
P.S. I’ve been meaning to include some Primal Scream songs in this recommendation section for a while. I was super in the mood to listen to “Country Girl” so I’m gonna go with that.
It’s such a great summertime song and that chorus is great to sing along to any day of the year. It feels fitting for the Monday vibe I like to try to cultivate around here :
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Call someone you love!
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