NYT Connections hint (Thu, 18 Jun)

It's a new day, and as always, there's a new Connections puzzle to go along with it. Connections puzzles are never easy, though.

If this one has you scratching your head more than usual, let us do the heavy lifting for you. Here, we've got subtle hints and full answers to get you over the finish line of even the hardest of puzzles.

Click here to play today's NYT Connections puzzle!

Connections hint for Thursday 18th June

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• 🟨 Yellow hint: Sweat-inducing activities.
• 🟩 Green hint: An air of sorts.
• 🟦 Blue hint: Influential figures.
• 🟪 Purple hint: Not quite the finished product.
• Extra hint 1: One group is missing a few letters.
• Extra hint 2: Every group except blue 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: Bootcamp
• 🟩 Green: Carriage
• 🟦 Blue: Tutu
• 🟪 Purple: Hamm

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: Fitness Class Types
• 🟩 Green: Demeanor
• 🟦 Blue: Peace Activists
• 🟪 Purple: Tools Minus Last Two Letters

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 Thursday, 18th June:

• 🟨 Yellow: Fitness Class Types (Aerobics, Barre, Bootcamp, Pilates)
• 🟩 Green: Demeanor (Attitude, Bearing, Carriage, Presence)
• 🟦 Blue: Peace Activists (Gandhi, King, Mandela, Tutu)
• 🟪 Purple: Tools Minus Last Two Letters (Hamm, Jigs, Plie, Wren)

And that's a wrap on another Connections puzzle! In a strange twist of events, the purple group didn't give me as much trouble as it usually does! Not because I was smart enough to figure out the wordplay at work, but simply because they were the wierdest words on the grid. But hey, as long as we solve that puzzle, that's all that matters!

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!