NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Saturday, June 8 (game #363) (2024)

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It's the weekend! And that means you have another chance to solve a weekend Connections puzzle: they're the same as the weekday Connections puzzles, but on a weekend. Yay! Read on for my hints and commentary on today's game.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles 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.

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NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Saturday, June 8 (game #363) (2)

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 daily today's Wordle answer column and a detailed analysis of the most common letters in Wordle in every position. He's also played every Wordle ever and only lost once and yes, he takes it all too seriously.

NYT Connections today (game #363) - today's words

NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Saturday, June 8 (game #363) (3)

Today's NYT Connections words are…

  • PLEATS
  • PLEASE
  • HOLD
  • RECORD
  • WOMAN
  • FILM
  • GOOD
  • PASTEL
  • PENNY
  • STAPLE
  • TAPE
  • RIVET
  • ABSORB
  • PETALS
  • ENGROSS
  • SHOOT

NYT Connections today (game #363) - hint #1 - group hints

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

  • Yellow: I'm fixated on this
  • Green: Captured for posterity
  • Blue: Change the redor
  • Purple: Julia Roberts

Need more clues?

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 #363) - hint #2 - group answers

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

  • YELLOW: GRAB ONE’S ATTENTION
  • GREEN: DOCUMENT WITH VIDEO
  • BLUE: ANAGRAMS
  • PURPLE: PRETTY ___

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #363) - the answers

NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Saturday, June 8 (game #363) (4)

The answers to today's Connections, game #363, are…

  • YELLOW: GRAB ONE’S ATTENTION ABSORB, ENGROSS, HOLD, RIVET
  • GREEN: DOCUMENT WITH VIDEO FILM, RECORD, SHOOT, TAPE
  • BLUE: ANAGRAMS PASTEL, PETALS, PLEATS, STAPLE
  • PURPLE: PRETTY ___ GOOD, PENNY, PLEASE, WOMAN
  • My rating: Easy
  • My score: Perfect

It's not often that I solve Connections in the 'correct' order, but the fact that I did so today probably points towards this being rather straightforward. The first couple, yellow and green, were really rather obvious; two pretty clear examples of just needing to group words that obviously go together. The third one was more opaque, but I'm well used to solving anagrams from playing Quordle each day, where they often crop up, so it wasn't too much of a challenge for me to find those four either.

That just left purple – which of course I didn't need to solve as such, because I already knew what the answers were. But I always like to do so if I can, and after a bit of thought I did spot the PRETTY_ connection, which made it a perfect solve for me today.

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

Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Friday, 7 June, game #362)

  • YELLOW: DREAM UP CONCEIVE, ENVISION, IMAGINE, PICTURE
  • GREEN: THIN COVERING COAT, FILM, LAYER, SKIN
  • BLUE: REMOVE, AS CRUMBS BRUSH, FLICK, SWEEP, WIPE
  • PURPLE: VERBS FOR A SOFTWARE ENGINEER CODE, DEVELOP, HACK, PROGRAM

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 hom*ophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Saturday, June 8 (game #363) (5)

Marc McLaren

Global Editor in Chief

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 daily Wordle today page).

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