This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s? Check out the Connections hint for Friday 19th June!
It’s Friday! I don’t know about you, but that’s always one of the hardest days for my brain to play catch up. If you made the mistake of saving Connections until the end of the day and used up your last spoons at work, we’re here to help!
Here, we’ve got subtle hints and full answers so you can get to the finish line of any Connections puzzle.
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Connections hint for Friday 19th June
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- 🟨 Yellow hint: Savory flavor bombs.
- 🟩 Green hint: Early recital material.
- 🟦 Blue hint: Newsstand beginnings.
- 🟪 Purple hint: The connection is made at the end!
- Extra hint 1: For one group, the ending matters most.
- Extra hint 2: Every group except purple has at least one word containing the letter ‘P’
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- 🟨 Yellow: Miso Paste
- 🟩 Green: Chopsticks
- 🟦 Blue: Fortune Cookie
- 🟪 Purple: Dim Sum
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!
Today’s Connections groups revealed
If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four correct Connections groups – the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.
Here are the Connections groups for today:
- 🟨 Yellow: Umami-Rich Foods
- 🟩 Green: Things a Beginner Might Learn on the Piano
- 🟦 Blue: Starting with Magazines
- 🟪 Purple: Ending in Synonyms for “Aggregate”
Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections answer lies ahead!
Connections answer today
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Friday, 19th June:
- 🟨 Yellow: Umami-Rich Foods (Miso Paste, Parmesan, Soy Sauce, Vegemite)
- 🟩 Green: Things a Beginner Might Learn on the Piano (Chopsticks, Für Elise, Heart and Soul, The Entertainer)
- 🟦 Blue: Starting with Magazines (Fortune Cookie, People Person, Spinderella, Time Machine)
- 🟪 Purple: Ending in Synonyms for “Aggregate” (Coincidentally, Dim Sum, Teetotal, Viscount)
Well, I am almost at a loss for words after today’s puzzle, and that’s really saying something because finding words is literally my job. To say this puzzle stumped me would be an understatement. I have played a lot of Connections puzzles in my time, and the hardest ones are the ones that include one word in each group that could make up their own independant group. And this puzzle did that perfectly.
Hands up if you thought Miso Paste, Chopsticks, Fortune Cookie, and Dim Sum were meant to be a full group! And no lying!
Let us know in the comments below how you found today’s puzzle! Here’s my grid:
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Congratulations if you got today’s Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you didn’t succeed today, don’t worry – a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!
