Tip and answer from Connections today June 12 for 367

We’re reaching the middle of the week and there’s still work to be done, so put some thought into determining the Response from Connections for today June 12.

If you’ve never played it before, Connections challenges you to sort a group of 16 words into four groups where all the words are well… connected. This connection could come from the fact that they share a similar meaning, being part of a place name, objects found in a kitchen or anything else!

Although it may seem easy, the connection groups each have a different difficulty level – yellow being the easiest and purple being the hardest. For this reason, work today’s login answer could be rather tricky. You may get one group right away, but another might be a mystery to you. Fortunately, we are here to help!

Originally developed during the New York Times games department’s annual game jam, the beta version of Connections was released in June 2023. Since then, it has become one of the most popular games the NYTimes has to offer, beaten only by Worlde. Although some connections have been made with the BBC’s Only Connect programme…

Tip for Today’s Connections Answer

Instead of jumping straight to the answer, let’s start with some clues for today’s Connections puzzle:

• YELLOW – Famous places of an American city.
• Green – Words that rhyme.
• Blue – Remember to measure things.
• Purple – Words related to animals.
• Dumbo belongs to the Yellow group, Kill Bill to Green and The Longest Yard to Blue.

Remember: yellow is the easiest group to find, followed by green and blue, with purple being the hardest set of words to connect.

Connecting words for June 12

Here are the words included in today’s Connections puzzle – see if the clues above help you make a connection before checking out today’s answer:

Beetle juice	Longest yard	be nice	Wall Street
Foxy Brown	The green Line	AND	Manhattan
Dogma	My left foot	Night of fear	Dumbo
Octopus	Hedwig and the angry thumb	Kill Bill	Chinese district

June 12 connections response

Without further ado, here is Connections’ answer for today:

• Places in New York – Chinatown, Dumbo, Manhattan, Wall Street.
• Rhyming titles – Be Kind Rewind, ET, Fright Night, Kill Bill.
• Ending with units of measurement – Hedwig and The Angry Inch, My Left Foot, The Green Mile, The Longest Yard.
• Let’s start with the animals – Beetlejuice, Foxy Brown, Dogma, Octopussy.

Movie fans had a hard time with today’s Connections puzzle. After a failed attempt to put Dumbo, Manhattan, Kill Bill, and The Green Mile together, I changed strategy, focusing on words with animal names. After finding the Purple group, I formed the Yellow group. If we don’t talk about the movie Manhattan, it must be the famous place in New York. A few tries gave me the Green group and after that I was finally able to find the Blue group.

What to play after Connections?

The obvious answer to this question is Wordle, but if you’ve already solved that problem today, the New York Times has other games. When it comes to word games, the NYTimes has the Mini Crossword, Spelling Bee, Letter Boxed, and Strands games, which are still in beta. If you want to get away from words, you can also try Tiles – a pattern matching game – or Sudoku.

Apart from the NYTimes, there is Semantle – where you have to reach the secret word by guessing its meaning. Spelling doesn’t matter in Semantle, rather you need to pay attention to the numerical value of your guesses to plot your way to the answer. If you prefer to keep the Connections format, it’s worth visiting Puzzgrid. You’ll find hundreds of Connections-style puzzles here, but the problem is that you only have three minutes to solve them.

(You can also just watch Only Connect on BBC iPlayer…)

If you’re in the mood to read, we explained why the NYTimes Mini Crosswords are a reliable joy and interviewed Jonathan Knight, head of games for the NYTimes.

Good luck solving today’s connections!