Today’s Connections Hints and Answers 356 (June 1)
Find out the hints and answers to the NYT Connections #356 puzzle for today – June 1, 2024.
Connections is a daily word game designed by the New York Times. This game requires you to find common threads between 16 words by grouping them into four sets of four related words. This guide will help you solve today’s Connections puzzle!
Today’s Connections Hints for June 1
If you’re having trouble identifying the categories for today’s Connections puzzle, these hints may help unravel the connections:
- Urgency or doing something quickly
- Natural phenomena related to the ocean
- Exercises you might do with dumbbells at the gym
- Words that sound like famous philosophers’ last names
Today’s Connections Answer for June 1
If you’re ready for the answers, below are the themes followed by the answers for today’s Connections puzzle:
- “Don’t Delay!”: HURRY, NOW, PRONTO, STAT
- Ocean Phenomena: CURRENT, DRIFT, TIDE, WAVE
- Dumbbell Exercises: CURL, FLY, PRESS, ROW
- Philosopher Homophones: LOCK, MARKS, PANE, RUSTLE
How to Play Connections
Connections presents 16 words that you must arrange into four groups based on their connections or similarities. The groups are color-coded by difficulty level:
- Yellow (easiest)
- Green
- Blue
- Purple (hardest).
You get four chances to guess the right groupings correctly. If you make more than four mistakes, the game ends. You can shuffle the board to spot new connections between words.
Tips to tackle the Connections word puzzles
- Break down words by sounds, meanings, and associations.
- Look for prefixes, suffixes, rhymes, and other language connections.
- Start with an easier category first to build momentum.
- Most importantly, have fun putting those brain cells to work!
If you struggled with any of today’s word connections, don’t beat yourself up. Like Wordle, Connections reset daily with new puzzles to solve. Check back tomorrow for more Connections hints and answers!
