In today’sConnectionsthere are a few tricky spots, and the words do not immediately scream similarities to each other. Ironically, the normally hardest category is a little easier today, depending on your knowledge of food slang. Join us in solving today’sConnectionswith some of our tips and tricks.
If you have a completed puzzle and still want to test your brain power, you should check outWordlefrom the NYT. It is also word-and-logic based, but instead of constructing words into categories you arebreaking a word down into each of its letter pieces. This makes it both a lot of fun and fairly challenging to keep your brain engaged.
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Today’s Connections Category Hints
JUNE 22 #376
Today, the categories feel a little disjointed, especially at first when you just see the words for the first time. It is easy to mess some of them up, just because the words seemingly crossover or look like they belong elsewhere. With that in mind, here are just the categories for today’s puzzle.
STRING
TRAIN
LINK should belong in this category and it is a tragedy that it does not. However, we knew it had to be a series of something, or creating one, as CHAIN and SERIES both felt like they were pushing that direction. STRING was likewise immediately put in this category, but TRAIN was a little tricker.
WEDGE
WOOD
As someone who has not played a round of golf besides mini-golf, this one was tricky. DRIVER was taken quite literally as someone driving someone else. IRON felt like it might go with CHAIN and WOOD as well as a different type of fence, and we spent way too long trying to figure out the last category in this puzzle. Sadly, it ended up ruining our streak as we lost sight of the prize.
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OMEN
RING
This one felt very strange without the “the” in front of the words, and we did not get around to this category to attempt to solve for it. However, we did see that FOG and OMEN seemed to go together, even if we did not know why. RING and BIRDS seemed like they did not belong in many other places, and we likely would have got this one if we had let the last category go but alas we are very stubborn.
FRANK
LINK
We were abtssolutely certain that three of these words went together, and they did! The bad news is we got too caught up in getting the right fourth word and ruined ourConnectionsstreak because of it. However, we also got stuck on these words as synonyms for hot dogs specifically, not sausage, so we missed the obvious LINK due to the fixation on a very similar but slightly different word.
Other Games Like Connections
As fourth of July approaches, getting those hot dogs on the grill is a priority! However, while you are waiting on getting all your guests together, you may try one of the games below to whittle away the time.
Is It Free To Play?
Wordle(NYT)
Solve a random five-letter word by using color clues.EveryWordleanswercan be found in our daily updated list.
Yes
Worldle
Name a country based only on its silhouette, and a few geographical hints.
The Password Game
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Absurdle
Try to solve a game ofWordlewithout any help. With each guess, the game reveals as little information as possible, even changing the word if need be.
