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Connections is a game from the New York Times that challenges you to find the association between words. It sounds easy, but it isn’t—Connections categories can be almost anything, and they’re usually quite specific. If you need a hand getting the answers, we’ve got you covered.
What Is Connections?
Connections is a game from the New York Times. The objective is simple: sort 16 words into groups of 4. Each group of words will be connected by some common idea or theme. That common element could be anything. We have seen everything from games that rely on the number of letters in the words to categories that require you to spot an extra letter at the end of the word. Sometimes they’re references to economics, other times they reference fairy tales. There is no telling what sort of association there will be between words.
Once you’re confident you understand the connection, select 4 words, then hit “Submit.” You have only four attempts in total, so don’t be too guess-happy.
Hints for Today’s Connections Groups
Here are a few hints for the 362nd Connections game to get you started:
How Did We Solve This Connections Game?
June 7th felt very easy for me.
The first group of words I noticed were brush, flick, sweep, and wipe. They’re all verbs, and they all mean roughly the same thing. They’re ways of removing something from a surface. Blue was just “Remove, as Crumbs.”
The next group I spotted was Purple. Code, develop, hack, and program could belong to any number of groups depending on the connection you make between them, but it was obvious they’re all geeky or nerdy terms, so I just guessed they’d be together. The group was officially “Verbs for a Software Engineer.”
Coat, film, layer, and skin all describe something that sits on the surface of something in a thin layer. A film of oil, a coat of paint, and so on, so I assumed they were in a group, too. They belonged to the Green group, “Thin Covering.”
That left Yellow. The words in that group were conceive, envision, imagine, and picture—all relatively straight forward verbs that mean “to create something from your imagination,” or something to that effect. The group was properly titled “Dream Up.”
How Do You Guess Connections Groups?
There is no quick, reliable way to approach Connections like there is with Wordle, since Connections isn’t algorithmic. However, there are a few things to keep in mind that can help.
If you didn’t solve this one, don’t feel too bad—there’s always tomorrow! And those words may align with a topic you’re interested in, giving you a leg up on the competition.
