Today’s connections
Credit: NYT / Erik Kain
Welcome back, Connectioneers! If you’re looking for help with today’s NYT Connections puzzle, I’m here to help you out with some extra clues and the solutions for the Yellow, Blue, Green, and Purple groups.
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Today’s Connections are 2/5 difficulty according to the Connections Bot. Let’s solve it!
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How to play the links
Connections is the second most popular NYT Games puzzle game besides the main crossword itself, and a super fun, free offering that will get your brain moving every day. Play it 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 small global puzzles where the words may come before or after the ones you need to figure out. And it gets more complicated from there.
There’s only one set of correct answers for this, and you only get a certain number of tries, so you can’t just spam until you find something. There are color-coded difficulty levels, which usually change from yellow, blue/green to purple as the difficulty increases, so know going in and when to start linking them together.
You pick the four words you think are connected and you’ll either get a solution and a light up line showing you how you connected. If you are close, it will tell you that you are one away. Again, four mistakes you lose, but if you want to know the answers without fail, either come here or clear your web cookies and try again. If you want to play more puzzles, you can get a subscription to NYT Games to access the complete archives of all past puzzles.
NYT Connections Tips and Answers – Sunday June 21st
Below, we’ll look at some additional hints for each Link group – Yellow, Blue, Green and Purple – and then the official clues and answers.
Here are today’s Connections words:
- Barbados
- community
- diggity
- dissect
- drizzle
- floors
- friends
- rain
- rocks
- it rubs
- shower
- hasty
- sprinkles
- anesthetizes
- surprises
- behind the scenes
Here’s an extra tip for each link group
- 🟡Yellow Team – Tut tut, looks like _____
- 🔵Blue Team – Funny TV Shows
- 🢢 Green Team – When someone delivers big, shocking news
- 🟣Purple group – The first part of each word is a disparaging comment
One word for each link group:
- 🟡Yellow Team – Rain
- 🔵Blue Team – Behind the scenes
- 🢢 Green Team – Stun
- 🟣Purple Team – Diggity
What are today’s connection groups?
Okay, the full spoilers follow here to see what the teams are today:
- 🟡Yellow team – Precipitation
- 🔵 Blue team – NBC Sitcoms
- 🢨Green team – Bowl Up
- 🟣Purple group – Starting with types of insults
What are the answers to today’s connections?
The full answers are below for each group, finally entering the four words in each category. Spoilers follow. Connections’ answers are:
- 🟡Yellow team – drizzle, rain, showers, sprays
- 🔵 Blue team – Community, Friends, Scrubs, Wings
- 🢨Green team – floors, rocks, dizzy, surprises
- 🟣Purple Team – BARBados, DIGgity, DISSect, SLAPdash
Here is the completed grid:
Today’s connections
Screenshot: Erik Kain
Today’s NYT Connections was a 2/5 on the Connections Bot difficulty scale. Once again, this looked harder than it turned out, although the yellow words were pretty obvious right off the bat. Or maybe I just have rain on the brain since the fires are already in our neck of the woods, alas.
I knew when I saw the word BARBADOS and nothing it could obviously belong to that this was a purple word. So I took the first syllable – barb – and looked for other words with a similar meaning. Well, there was DIGGITY with “dig” and DISSECT with “diss” and while it might seem the most obvious, SLAPDASH was what I was worried about when I made my guess.
I’m honestly a bit surprised I ended up in the Blue group today, given that I’m a TV writer and these are all TV shows. Again, I’ve never been a big fan of any of these, though I think I should check out COMMUNITY at some point. And scrubbing. Probably WINGS too. I was more a Seinfeld guy, or The Officewhen I used to watch sitcoms.
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