Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers, Sunday Jun 8

Need a hint for today’s Connections on Sunday, 8th June? Sometimes the links between the Connections words are a bit too obscure, and sometimes the matching theme is based on specific trivia that you may not (yet) possess. If either is the case for today’s puzzle, you may need some help.

If you’ve come looking for answers, you’re in luck, for not only do we have the full Connections solution, but also a list of hints to help you finish this challenge on your own.

In this guide:

Here are the 16 Connections words for today:

How to play Connections

Connections is one of the most popular (and challenging) daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). The aim of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, where each group of four words has a common theme.

For instance, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter”, and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Or to take another example, “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go”, and “Stick” are all words which commonly come just before the word “Figure”.

Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the various words together – but be wary, because a lot of the time there are deceptive red herring connections placed purely to throw you off! To win the game, you have to find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is revealed automatically.

Each of the four groups in each day’s Connections puzzle is also assigned a different colour, which represents how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colours are: Yellow (Easiest), Green (Easy), Blue (Medium), and Purple (Hardest).

Click here to play today’s Connections puzzle!

Connections hint for Sunday 8th June

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow: Don’t give up!
• Green: There’s a link between them and the economy.
• Blue: If you look up a famous person, what headings would you see?
• Purple: Look for the “green” in homophone form.
• Extra hint 1: Grouping the animals together is a good start.
• Extra hint 2: Every group except yellow contains a word starting with ‘B’.

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

• Yellow: Stay
• Green: Bull
• Blue: Education
• Purple: Cache

Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!

What are today’s Connections groups?

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: Persist
• Green: Animal Metaphors In Economics
• Blue: Sidebar Info On A Person’S Wikipedia Page
• Purple: Homophones Of Slang For Money

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!

What is today’s Connections answer?

Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Sunday, 8th June:

• Yellow: Persist (Hold, Last, Stand, Stay)
• Green: Animal Metaphors In Economics (Bear, Bull, Dove, Hawk)
• Blue: Sidebar Info On A Person’S Wikipedia Page (Born, Education, Occupation, Spouse)
• Purple: Homophones Of Slang For Money (Bred, Cache, Doe, Lute)

I actually followed my own advice and started by grouping the animals today. Too many to form a theme of course, but it’s a start, and with the animals set aside, it was easier to notice the connection between the yellow words.

Looking at the remaining seven non-animal words, a ‘personal info’ category began to form in my head, which led to a complete blue theme before long. I didn’t think of Wikipedia or famous people specifically, but as long as you think of ‘life stages’, ‘first things you would learn about a person’, or something of that sort, you’re probably fine.

It took me a while to rule out one of the animals. I kept staring at them, hoping an ‘outlier’ would reveal themselves, but I really needed to look at the non-animal words more closely. The purple theme is very creative, but also quite hard as you’d not only have to notice the homophones, but also recognise the slang for ‘money’. If you caught that one on your own, I’m impressed!

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!