NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Monday, June 17 (game #372)

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Another week, another set of Connections puzzles from the NYT to test your wits. Today’s is a difficult one (when are they not?), so read on if you need some hints.

What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got dailyWordle hints and answers,Strands hints and answersandQuordle hints and answersarticles if you need help for those too.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.

Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief and has been obsessed with Wordle and its ilk for more than two years. He’s authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar, including a dailytoday’s Wordle answercolumn and a detailedanalysis of the most common letters in Wordle in every position. He’s alsoplayed every Wordle ever and only lost onceand yes, he takes it all too seriously.

NYT Connections today (game #372) - today’s words

NYT Connections today (game #372) - today’s words

Today’s NYT Connections words are…

NYT Connections today (game #372) - hint #1 - group hints

NYT Connections today (game #372) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?

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We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…

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NYT Connections today (game #372) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?

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NYT Connections today (game #372) - the answers

The answers to today’s Connections, game #372, are…

This is my first Connections failure in weeks, and I’m kinda annoyed about it. No, scratch that – I’m furious at myself, and a little miffed at the NYT.

I don’t want this to sound like sour grapes, because I probably should have solved the blue ‘predicament’ group, which wasn’t exactly impossible. However, the purple one is just stupid. How is EDUCATION ‘measured in degrees’? Yes, a degree is a qualification in higher education – but it’s not a measurement. Merriam-Webster defines a degree, as it relates to education, as “a title conferred on students by a college, university, or professional school on completion of a program of study.” It’s not a measurement. Or am I missing something?

That said, I made hard work of the other three groups too, so ultimately I have nobody to blame but myself. This was a hard puzzle, but it wasn’t impossible. I’ll chalk this one down as a bad day.

How did you do today?Send me an emailand let me know.

Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Sunday, 16 June, game #371)

What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final one, as you’ll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It’s a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It’s playable for free via theNYT Games siteon desktop or mobile.

Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief, the latest in a long line of senior editorial roles he’s held in a career that started the week that Google launched (nice of them to mark the occasion). Prior to joining TR, he was UK Editor in Chief on Tom’s Guide, where he oversaw all gaming, streaming, audio, TV, entertainment, how-to and cameras coverage. He’s also a former editor of the tech website Stuff and spent five years at the music magazine NME, where his duties mainly involved spoiling other people’s fun. He’s based in London, and has tested and written about phones, tablets, wearables, streaming boxes, smart home devices, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, games, TVs, cameras and pretty much every other type of gadget you can think of. An avid photographer, Marc likes nothing better than taking pictures of very small things (bugs, his daughters) or very big things (distant galaxies). He also enjoys live music, gaming, cycling, and beating Wordle (he authors the dailyWordle todaypage).

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