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Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers.

And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers.

NYT Connections board for June 20, 2024: FLY, NAIL, SINK, SINKER, WASHER, DRYER, BUG, SCREW, MIRROR, BOLT, LINE, CHAIR, HOOK, STRIKE, NUT, ROD.

Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need!

Blue category - If you needed a cut and color, youd probably see these things at your appointment.

Purple category - A fill-in-the-blank, with a word describing something shocking that can happen during a storm.

BEWARE: Spoilers follow for todays Connections puzzle!

Were about to give away some of the answers.

Scroll slowly if you dont want the whole thing spoiled.

(The full solution is a bit further down.)

A heads up about the tricky parts

FLY and BUG dont go together.

WASHER and DRYER dont go together.

Today, DRYER refers to something youd point at your hair.

What are the categories in todays Connections?

I give them all away below.

What are the yellow words in todays Connections?

The yellow grouping is considered to be the most straightforward.

What are the green words in todays Connections?

The green grouping is supposed to be the second-easiest.

What are the blue words in todays Connections?

The blue grouping is the second-hardest.

What are the purple words in todays Connections?

The purple grouping is considered to be the hardest.

Hmm, this is a tough one.

It looks like BUG, BOLT, STRIKE, and ROD are all words that go with lightning.

Lets try WASHER, NAIL, NUT, and SCREW.

I think HOOK, LINE, SINKER, and FLY go together as words related to fishing.

That leaves CHAIR, DRYER, MIRROR, and SINK, which are all… household objects?

Oh, salon furniture.

Youll see a game board with 16 tiles, each with one word or phrase.

Your job is to select a group of four tiles that have something in common.

Select four items and hit the Submit button.

If you guessed correctly, the category and color will be revealed.

(Yellow is easiest, followed by green, then blue, then purple.)

If your guess was incorrect, youll get a chance to retry.

You win when youve correctly identified all four groups.

But if you make four mistakes before you finish, the game ends and the answers are revealed.

Expect to see overlapping groups.

So dont hit submit until youve confirmed that your group of four containsonlythose four things.

If youre stuck, another strategy is to look at the words that seem to havenoconnection to the others.

Check back tomorrow for the next puzzle!