NYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Sunday, June 22nd
Hints, clues and answers for today’s Connections are here.
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I’m a little late to this Connections guide. My apologies. It was my birthday this weekend and I guess I was just too distracted by this fact – either that, or I’m just so old now that my memory is leaving me – but I absolutely spaced publishing this when I normally do. But I’m here now to help you with this tricky puzzle, so let’s dive right in!
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.
Today’s Sunday Connections
- LIBERTY
- REPORT
- PORT
- FLASH
- REMAINING
- INSECURE
- LIFE
- BULLETIN
- PROGRESSIVE
- ENTOURAGE
- DEPARTED
- SUCCESSION
- PURSUIT
- HAPPINESS
- WIRE
- EUPHORIA
Hints for the Connections groups today are:
- 🟡Yellow group – Read all about it!
- 🔵Blue group – Home Box Office
- 🟢Green group – Written by Thomas Jefferson.
- 🟣Purple group – A direction unites these words.
What Are Today’s Connections Groups?
Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today:
- 🟡Yellow group – News announcement.
- 🔵Blue group– HBO Shows
- 🟢Green group – Nouns from a famous line in the Declaration of Independence.
- 🟣Purple group – What “Left” might mean.
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 – Bulletin, Flash, Report, Wire
- 🔵Blue group – Happiness, Liberty, Life, Pursuit
- 🟢Green group – Entourage, Euphoria, Insecure, Succession
- 🟣Purple group – Departed, Port, Progressive, Remaining
Today’s Connections answers
The tricky word in this batch was WIRE which I plugged in first with ENTOURAGE, EUPHORIA, INSECURE and SUCCESSION – all HBO shows. Well, I was right about the HBO shows, but wrong about WIRE (despite The Wire being one of the greatest shows ever made). It was actually INSECURE, the one show in this list I’m not as familiar with. I realized WIRE could go with BULLETIN and then put those with FLASH and REPORT and that worked for yellow. When I saw LIFE, LIBERTY and PURSUIT and I realized they all paired nicely with HAPPINESS. Once I’d gotten the last HBO show I plugged in the remaining four, despite not knowing how they connected. But they really all do mean “left” in one form or another. Tricky one today!
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