If yesterday's Connections were difficult, then today's Connections are… also difficult! But don't worry if you get stuck, because if you scroll down this page you'll find some tips that will point you in the right direction.
What should you do once you're done? Well, play more word games, of course. I also have daily Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers, and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help too.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.
NYT Connections Today (Game #367): Today's Words
Today's words from NYT Connections are…
- DUMBO
- Eastern Time
- MY LEFT FOOT
- DOGMA
- THE GREEN
- MILE
- BEETLE JUICE
- FINANCIAL WORLD
- KILL BILL
- CHINATOWN
- NIGHT OF FEARS
- FOXY BROWN
- HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY ONE
- INCH
- OCTOPUS
- THE LONGEST
- YARD
- BE KIND REWIND
- MANHATTAN
NYT Connections Today (Game #367) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some leads for current NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Big Apple
- Green: Sounds similar
- Blue: How far?
- Purple: natural thinking
Do you need more clues?
We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the answers are to the four topics for today's NYT Connections riddles…
NYT Connections Today (Game #367) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: PLACES IN NEW YORK CITY
- GREEN: TITLES THAT RHYME
- BLUE: TERMINATION IN UNITS OF MEASUREMENT
- PURPLE: STARTING WITH ANIMALS
Well, the answers are below, so DON'T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #367): The Answers
The answers to today's Connections game #367 are…
- YELLOW: PLACES IN NEW YORK CITY CHINATOWN, DUMBO, MANHATTAN, WALL STREET
- GREEN: TITLES THAT RHYME BE KIND REWIND, ET, FARE NIGHT, KILL BILL
- BLUE: TERMINATION IN UNITS OF MEASUREMENT HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, MY LEFT FOOT, THE GREEN MILE, THE LONGEST GARDEN
- PURPLE: STARTING WITH ANIMALS BEETLEJUICE, DOGMA, FOXY BROWN, OCTOPUSSY
- My rating: Hard
- My score: Perfect
This is another really clever Connections puzzle. I'm a big fan. All the words are movies, obviously, but none of them really have a cinematic connection, which may well have puzzled you in the same way it initially confused me. I spent too much time thinking about what movies Jack Nicholson might have acted in other than CHINATOWN, or whether JACK BLACK had acted in anything other than BE KIND, REWIND. Had any been specific Oscar winners? Were any released the same year? Etc.
There may be some connections there (I'm not enough of a film buff to know without checking), but it was only when I changed my thinking that I started to make progress. I solved the two hardest ones first, noticing that four of them ended in a unit of measurement for the blue group, then I got the animal connection for the purple one.
The rhyming group, green, was pretty easy to find after that, which was left in yellow. This was supposedly the easiest of the four, based on color, but as a non-New Yorker (and non-American) I guarantee you I wouldn't have solved it if it weren't by default, because I had no idea DUMBO was a region of New York . . It's true that this appears in the New York Times, but I still feel it's a little provincial for the NYT to include it, since they must know that millions of people around the world play Connections. Couldn't they have chosen something else?
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Answers from yesterday's NYT Connections (Tuesday, June 11, Game #366)
- YELLOW: HOMOPHONES BI, BUY, BY, BYE
- GREEN: MUSCLES, INFORMALLY AB, PEC, QUADRUPLE, TRI
- BLUE: MUSICAL GENRES DUB, EMO, POP, TRAP
- PURPLE: ADJUSTMENTS IN THE REMOTE OF A DEVICE HIGH, LOW, MEDIUM, OFF
What are NYT connections?
NYT Connections is one of the increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow is a little harder, blue is usually quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final question since you'll be able to answer it through a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little breathing room.
However, it's a little more complicated than something like Wordle and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For example, be careful with homophones and other puns that could disguise answers.
It can be played for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile devices.
