ForbesNYT ‘Connections’ Hints For Wednesday, June 11: Clues And Answers For Today’s GameBy Kris Holt

Hey there, Connectors! I hope your week is going as well as it can be.

Just a quick heads up for superstitious folks out there: tomorrow is the only Friday the 13th of the year. So take whatever precautions you feel the need to.

I would usually take the opportunity to watch a horror movie, but I’ll be spending the evening at a show instead. I’m looking forward to that one, but I might have to endure a frightening experience all the same: dealing with crowds who are in town for Formula One race weekend. Keep your fingers crossed for me… if you believe in that sort of thing.

Before we begin, we have a great little community on Discord, where we chat about NYT Connections, the rest of the NYT games and all kinds of other stuff. Everyone who has joined has been lovely. It’s a fun hangout spot, and you’re more than welcome to hang out with us.

Discord is also the best way to give me any feedback about the column, especially on the rare (or not-so-rare) occasions that I mess something up. I don’t look at the comments or Twitter much. You can also read my weekend editions of this column at my new newsletter, Pastimes.*

Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, June 12 are coming right up.

How To Play Connections

Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT’s website or Games app.

You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.

There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.

Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.

If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.

If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication’s Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.

Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find our hints Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.

What Are Today’s Connections Hints?

Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.

Today’s 16 words are...

• BOWLING
• WRESTLING
• MISSING
• DISHING
• SPOONING
• SIRING
• BUZZING
• SEWING
• LORDING
• SPILLING
• HUGGING
• DOCTORING
• SNUGGLING
• ACUPUNCTURING
• WHISPERING
• CUDDLING

And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:

• ? Yellow group — get closer
• ? Green group — did you hear what I heard?
• ? Blue group — foresting and putting up notices, perhaps
• ? Purple group — let’s maybe not keep it casual here

One Word For Each Connections Group

Need some extra help?

Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.

Let’s take a look at one word for each group.

Today’s Connections word hints are…

• ? Yellow group — SPOONING
• ? Green group — DISHING
• ? Blue group — BOWLING
• ? Purple group — MISSING

What Are Today’s Connections Groups?

Today’s Connections groups are...

• ? Yellow group — getting cozy
• ? Green group — gossiping
• ? Blue group — engaging in an activity with pins or needles
• ? Purple group — starting with titles

What Are Today’s Connections Answers?

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections answers are...

• ? Yellow group — getting cozy (CUDDLING, HUGGING, SNUGGLING, SPOONING)
• ? Green group — gossiping (BUZZING, DISHING, SPILLING, WHISPERING)
• ? Blue group — engaging in an activity with pins or needles (ACUPUNCTURING, BOWLING, SEWING, WRESTLING)
• ? Purple group — starting with titles (DOCTORING, LORDING, MISSING, SIRING)

A theme puzzle, fun! We haven't had one of these in a while. I hope it's not a streakbreaker for too many people!

SPOONING, DISHING and BOWLING (as in dishware or utensils with "ing" added) seemed like a red herring to me out of the gate. SPOONING had three clear partners in HUGGING, SNUGGLING and CUDDLING, so I got the yellows taken care of.

SIRING jumped out at me, so I got the forms of address squared away. I thought those would be blues at a push, but certainly not the purples. I'm not complaining!

Four of the words seemed gossip related, so I went the other route first. ACUPUNCTURING and SEWING both related to pins. It took me a second to realize how WRESTLING fit in here (in both pro wrestling and amateur wresting, one can win by pinning the opponent) and I chuckled once that clicked. Blues then greens got me the win.

Another perfect game today, and that means I have 107 wins in a row. Here's my grid:

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That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Friday’s game if you need them.

P.S. "Time Bomb" by Jacklen Ro is a song that popped up on my radar recently. It’s about a relationship that has an expiry date, but the melodies and harmonies here are just really nice and soothing to listen to. That’s something I really needed right now:

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