NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Tuesday, June 11 (game #366) (2024)

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NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Tuesday, June 11 (game #366)? ›

Today's difficulty is 3.4 out of 5.

Today's difficulty is 3.4 out of 5.

Each category is color-coded to indicate its difficulty level: yellow for the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. The puzzles are rarely straightforward, often incorporating hom*ophones, wordplay, and other techniques to keep players on their toes.

The popular brainteaser was launched by The New York Times in June of last year and has gone on to become the newspaper's second-most-played game behind Wordle, another word-based puzzle. If you have never played it before, Connections challenges players to uncover threads connecting a series of words.

In Connections, each category has a different difficulty level. Yellow is the simplest, and purple is the most difficult.

There are four different difficulty levels in each game -- each group of four fits in one. Yellow is the easiest, then green, then blue, and the hardest is purple, smugly labeled "tricky" by the NYT gamesters. If you make four mistakes, you lose, and the game shows you the answers.

When a player successfully identifies a group, its category is revealed along with a color-coded difficulty level: categories are rated yellow, green, blue, or purple, with yellow being the most straightforward and purple being the most difficult. Each Connections game has one category from each difficulty level.

As an executive producer at The New York Times (NYT) Games, Zoe Bell helped create Connections, a word game that's become a smashing success.

This Day in History: June 11

Timothy McVeigh—convicted of the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, which killed 168 people in what was then the worst terrorist attack in the U.S.—was executed this day in 2001.

What's the easiest color in Connections? ›

Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple.

Today's difficulty is 3.9 out of 5.

There's plenty of ambiguity, which is why you get four wrong guesses before you lose the game. As you go, Connections should get easier.

You might be a dissectologist if you are:

Observant: you notice the world around you. Detail-oriented: you remember the little things. A problem-solver: you can look at situations from all angles. Highly organized: you love a good puzzle sorting system.

COUNTING THE CONNECTIONS:

The total number of connectors (holes & nobbles) in a 1000 piece jigsaw is therefore: (4×2) + (122×3) + (874×4) = 3870 connectors (of which 1935 are holes and the other half nobbles).

Studies have shown that jigsaw puzzles can help improve visual-spatial reasoning, short-term memory, and problem-solving skills as well as combat cognitive decline, which can reduce risk of developing dementia.

When a player successfully identifies a group, its category is revealed along with a color-coded difficulty level: categories are rated yellow, green, blue, or purple, with yellow being the most straightforward and purple being the most difficult.

There's plenty of ambiguity, which is why you get four wrong guesses before you lose the game. As you go, Connections should get easier.

Each of the four categories has a difficulty level, with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue and finally purple, the most difficult. It is important to keep in mind that while the concept is simple, the puzzles often use hom*ophones and wordplay—so you have to think outside the box.