NYT Connections hint (Fri, 26 Jun)

Even the most seasoned Connections fans struggle every now and then! You can't win 'em all, I'm afraid. If you do, though, please let me know. I'd like to get you on my team for the next trivia night I attend.

Click here to play today's NYT Connections puzzle!

Connections hint for Friday 26th June

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• 🟨 Yellow hint: Bar snacks.
• 🟩 Green hint: From forest to fragment.
• 🟦 Blue hint: Landscape features.
• 🟪 Purple hint: These have a little something extra...
• Extra hint 1: Try removing a letter from some of these words to find the Connection!
• Extra hint 2: Every group except yellow has at least one word containing the letter 'G'

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

• 🟨 Yellow: Chip
• 🟩 Green: Splinter
• 🟦 Blue: Hollow
• 🟪 Purple: Pinky

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: Crunchy Snack Item
• 🟩 Green: Various Amounts of Wood
• 🟦 Blue: Areas of Low Ground
• 🟪 Purple: Colors Plus a Letter

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, 26th June:

• 🟨 Yellow: Crunchy Snack Item (Chip, Cracker, Nut, Pretzel)
• 🟩 Green: Various Amounts of Wood (Board, Log, Splinter, Tree)
• 🟦 Blue: Areas of Low Ground (Dale, Dell, Gorge, Hollow)
• 🟪 Purple: Colors Plus a Letter (Bronzer, Pinky, Redo, Tang)

Who's hungry after today's puzzle? Just me? Oh well, more salty snacks for me then! Today's puzzle was qute balanced. We had the classic wordplay with the purple group and some nature with varying degrees of difficulty.

The blue group was the hardest for me to solve this time. Dale, dell, gorge, and hollow aren't the most common words in day to day language. The only one I've ever really heard in conversation is gorge, and that didn't help me much!

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!