The New York Times Connections puzzle for Wednesday, June 19, 2024, is game #374. Start with the spoiler-safe clues below; the complete yellow, green, blue and purple groups appear after the spoiler warning.
Spoiler-free hints for Connections #374
Each color points toward a different type of connection. These clues are intentionally broad enough to preserve the challenge:
- Yellow: What you might say during a vote.
- Green: When you hang out as more than friends.
- Blue: A large group.
- Purple: Related to reading the future or revealing hidden insights.
Tiles in the June 19 puzzle
The 16 tiles were:
SEA, AYE, SEE, TEA, COURT, PRO, DROVE, DATE, PACK, FOR, PALM, WOO, TAROT, HOST, AURA, YEA.
Spoiler: Connections #374 answers
Stop here if you still want to solve the puzzle yourself. The solved groups are:
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| Color | Category | Tiles | Why they fit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow | Positions in favor | AYE, FOR, PRO, YEA | All can express agreement or support. |
| Green | Go out with | COURT, DATE, SEE, WOO | Each can describe pursuing or dating someone. |
| Blue | Multitude | DROVE, HOST, PACK, SEA | Each can mean a large group or quantity. |
| Purple | Things read in divination | AURA, PALM, TAROT, TEA | These are interpreted in practices intended to reveal information or the future. |
How to reason through the trickier groups
Find the direct synonym first
The yellow set is the most semantically direct: AYE, FOR, PRO and YEA are all affirmative terms. Spotting it removes four tiles and makes the remaining relationships easier to test.
Read COURT and WOO as dating verbs
COURT and WOO can look out of place beside the more familiar DATE and SEE. In this puzzle, all four mean pursuing or spending time with someone romantically, rather than simply observing them or appearing in court.
Test collective nouns for the blue set
DROVE, HOST, PACK and SEA each indicate many people or things considered together. Their exact uses differ, so the shared idea is a multitude rather than one fixed grammatical pattern.
Keep the divination connection for last
AURA, PALM, TAROT and TEA refer to things traditionally examined or interpreted for hidden meaning. “Read tea” points to tea-leaf reading, while palm and tarot readings are more familiar forms of divination.
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Connections presents 16 tiles that must be divided into four groups of four. The groups are color-coded by difficulty, and you can make up to four incorrect guesses. The puzzle is available through the New York Times Games service.
For this historical entry, “June 19” means June 19, 2024; it is not the current daily puzzle.
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