NYT Connections hint (Sat, 20 Jun)

Each and every day the NYT hits us with yet another Connections puzzle, and we swoop in with a helpful guide to walk you through it. These puzzles are notoriously difficult, and it only takes one bad day to lose your streak.

We hate to see that happen around here, and we do everything in our power to keep your streak going.

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Connections hint for Saturday 20th June

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• 🟨 Yellow hint: Some things go unheard.
• 🟩 Green hint: Get behind.
• 🟦 Blue hint: Take a seat
• 🟪 **Purple hint:**Repeat offenders.
• Extra hint 1: One group stays silent about something.
• Extra hint 2: Every group has at least one word containing the letter 'I'

If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:

• 🟨 Yellow: Knicks
• 🟩 Green: Support
• 🟦 Blue: Stool
• 🟪 Purple: Louie

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: Featuring Silent and Pronounced "K"s
• 🟩 Green: Endorse
• 🟦 Blue: Kinds of Chairs
• 🟪 Purple: Words Repeated in Hit Song Titles

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 Saturday, 20th June:

• 🟨 Yellow: Featuring Silent and Pronounced "K"s (Jackknife, Knapsack, Knicks, Knock-Knock)
• 🟩 Green: Endorse (Back, Bolster, Champion, Support)
• 🟦 Blue: Kinds of Chairs (Beanbag, Recliner, Rocker, Stool)
• 🟪 Purple: Words Repeated in Hit Song Titles (Jumpin', Louie, New York, Rebel)

Hands up if you spent an hour staring blankly at the puzzle on your screen today. My hand is up, by the way. The blue and green groups didn't give me much trouble, but the yellow one did, actually, and the only reason why I got the purple group was via the process of elimination. But hey! It got solved, and that's the only thing 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!