Help, advice and answers from today’s NYT “Connections” for Sunday, June 2

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ForbesTips and answers from today’s NYT “Connections” for Saturday, June 1By Chris Holt

Hey, friends! I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Today New York Times Connections clues and answers arrive immediately.

How to play connections

In Connections, a grid of 16 words is presented to you. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by determining the links that unite them. Groups can be things like horror movie franchises, a verb type, or rappers.

There is only one solution to each puzzle, and you will need to be careful when dealing with words that can fit into multiple categories. You can mix up the words to perhaps help you see the connections between them.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to understand, blue and green are in the middle, and the purple group is usually the hardest to deduce. The purple group often involves puns, so keep that in mind.

Select four words that you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and are wrong, you will lose a life. If you’re close to having a decent group, you may see a message telling you that you’re one word away from succeeding, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.

If you make four mistakes, the game is over. Let’s make sure this doesn’t happen with the help of a few clues, and, if you’re really struggling, the Connections answers.

What are today’s connection clues?

Scroll slowly! Right after the clues for each of today’s events Connections groups, I’m going to reveal to you what groups are without immediately telling you what words go into them.

The 16 words of the day are:

• MOBILE
• FOLLOWERS
• SHOVELS
• BUFFALO
• LOVE
• INSULTS
• ACTIONS
• SHEEP
• APARTMENT
• BILLING
• PUPPETS
• OPTIONS
• EQUITY
• PHOENIX
• STOCKS
• LEMMINGS

And the tips for today’s groups are:

1. Yellow group – those in line
2. Green Group – partial ownership of the company
3. Blue group — places located in the third most populous country
4. Purple Group — (sorry, can’t resist)

What are today’s connection groups?

Need additional help?

Warning: we are starting to enter spoiler territory.

Today’s groups are…

• Yellow group — conformists
• Green Group — corporate shareholding offers
• Blue Group — American Cities
• Purple Group – What “Dig” Could Mean

What are the answers to today’s connections?

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further until you’re ready to check out today’s news. Connections answers.

This is your final warning!

Today Connections the answers are…

• Yellow group — conformists (FOLLOWERS, LEMMINGS, PUPPETS, SHEEP)
• Green Group — corporate shareholding offers (SHARES, OPTIONS, SHARES, SHARES)
• Blue Group — American Cities (BILLINGS, BUFFALO, MOBILE, PHOENIX)
• Purple group — what “dig” could mean (APARTMENT, INSULTS, LIKES, SHOVELS)

My first perfect match in a few days brings my overall streak to 12 wins.

SUBSCRIBERS, LIKES and SHARES have added up to constitute a red herring on social networks. I quickly realized that FOLLOWERS went with the yellows and SHARES went with the greens.

It didn’t take much longer to deduct the cities, leaving the purple group for the win. Unfortunately, I didn’t understand the link beforehand. I never imagined someone would call a shovel a “dig.”

That’s all there is to say for today Connections clues and answers. Don’t forget to check out my blog for tips and walkthrough for Monday’s game if you need it.

PS Let’s continue the Pride celebrations. I’ve always enjoyed Scissor Sisters, and this one is my favorite.