Need answers to the June 12 New York Times connection puzzle? To me, Wordle is more like a vocabulary test, while Connections is more like brain teasers. You are given 16 words and asked to sort them into four groups that are related to each other in some way. Sometimes they’re obvious, but game editors know how to trick you by using words that fit into multiple groups.
Do you also play Wordle? We also have today’s Wordle answers and tips.
There’s also a new New York Times game called Strands, which is still in beta. Here are our tips for the game.
read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here are the most commonly used letters in the English language
Today’s link group tip
Here are four tips for connecting the groups in today’s puzzle, from the easiest yellow group to the difficult (and sometimes weird) purple group.
Yellow group tips: The city that never sleeps.
Green group tips: Great movie.
Blue group tips: Title with quantity.
Purple group tips: The type of creature in the movie’s title.
Answers to today’s link group
Yellow group: New York place.
Green group: Rhyming title.
Blue group: End with the unit of measurement.
Purple group: Start with animals.
What’s the answer to today’s link?
Yellow words in today’s connection
The theme is New York City places. The four answers are Chinatown, Dumbo, Manhattan and Wall Street. (Dumbo is a neighborhood in Brooklyn; its name is an acronym taken from the underpass of the Manhattan Bridge overpass.)
Green words in today’s link
Themes are rhyming titles. The four answers are “Be Kind Rewind”, “ET”, “Fright Night” and “Kill Bill”.
Blue words in today’s connection
The topic ends with units of measurement. The four answers are “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”, “My Left Foot”, “The Green Miracle” and “The Longest Yard”.
Purple words in today’s connection
The theme starts with animals. The four answers are Beetlejuice, Foxy Brown, Dogma and Octopussy.
How to play connect
It’s easy to play. Winning is hard. Look at these 16 words and mentally assign them to the four relevant groups. Click on the four words that you think go together. The groups are color-coded, but you don’t know what’s going where until you see the answer. The yellow group is the easiest, then the green group, then the blue group, and the purple group is the hardest. Look carefully at the words and think about related terms. Sometimes the connection is only with part of the word. At one time, the four words were grouped because each started with the name of a rock band, including “Rushmore” and “Journeyman.”
