NYT ‘Connections' Hints For Friday, June 13: Clues And Answers For Today's Game

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2 days ago

Find the links between the words to win today's game of Connections.
Each day's game of NYT Connections goes live at midnight local time. Before we get to today's Connections hints and answers, here are Thursday's:
Hey there, Connectors! The weekend is right around the corner, so let's make sure we roll into Saturday while keeping our streaks intact.
I try to keep this column light and positive for the most part, but I have to be honest: I've found it hard to focus this week. I suspect you may know the reasons why.
This isn't quite the right arena to delve into those. However, I have similar feelings as one of my colleagues, who is perhaps the finest writer I've had the pleasure of working alongside and deftly distilled those.
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Today's NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, June 13 are coming right up.
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.
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...
And the hints for today's Connections groups are:
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…
Today's Connections groups are...
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...
ONE WEEK (by the Canadian icons themselves, Barenaked Ladies) and CLOSING TIME (Semisonic) made the blues instantly clear. Well, clear enough. I knew that IRIS (The Goo Goo Dolls) was from around that same time, but it took me a minute to remember the song TOO CLOSE by Next to complete that group.
Things were fairly straightforward for me from that point. POINT OF VIEW was my entry point into the yellows, and the greens were pretty obvious from the jump.
Given that I was pretty confident about those two groups, I'm not entirely sure why I didn't go for the purples before either of those (then again, the reverse rainbow was already off the table). That connection wasn't too tough to figure out, after all. But hey, we'll take a perfect game all day long with no complaints.
That extends my streak to 108 wins! Here's my grid:
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
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That's all there is to it for today's Connections clues and answers. I'll be back with you all here on Monday. In the meantime, you can check out my weekend editions of this column in my newsletter, Pastimes.
P.S. I had another recommendation in mind, but I'll shove that back into my pocket until probably Tuesday because every one of the songs mentioned in the blue group is great. I'm just going to drop them all in right here for your listening pleasure:
Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and others! Call someone you love!
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