If you just want to enjoy a quiet Sunday and have a little fun playing a game, we can help you with the Response from Connections for today June 9.
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, working 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 – Words related to feelings.
- Green – Things that can be thrown.
- Blue – All these words are made up of several levels.
- Purple – Words that go well with ‘Potato’.
- Upset belongs to the yellow group, Sprinkle in Green and Onion in 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 9
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:
| Dirty | Pepper | Cooked | Cake |
| Sprinkle | Onion | Bitter | Earth |
| Soft | Dispersion | Couch | Upset |
| Hot | Plywood | Painful | Sprinkle |
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June 9 connections response
Without further ado, here is Connections’ answer for today:
- To feel some kind of path – Bitter, salty, painful, upset.
- Throw here and there – Pepper, scatter, sprinkle, sprinkle.
- Things with layers – Cake, Earth, Onion, Plywood.
- ___Potato – Baked, on the couch, hot, sweet.
Today’s Connections puzzle was quite tricky because it contains many words that we can associate with food. After my first try showed me that bitter, salty, and sweet weren’t in the same group, I abandoned the idea of ”food.” On the other hand, this attempt reminded me that Bitter and Salty are also feelings, so I tried with Upset and finally got the Yellow group. The second band I found was Purple thanks to the word Couch which, for me, is always linked to Potato. From there, I found the other three words. To form the Green and Blue groups, I had to try a few combinations even though I didn’t understand why they would form groups.
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.
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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!
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