Want a Connections prompt today? Following on from the monumental success of the daily puzzle game Wordle, the New York Times has published another fantastically popular word game. It’s called Connections and if you haven’t played it before, now is the time to start.
In this guide, we’ll give you some helpful tips for today’s Connections puzzle on Wednesday, June 26, before revealing the group topics and the Connections answers themselves. We’ll also explain how to play Connections if you’re fresh to Wordle!
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Words of connection on Wednesday, June 26
For reference, here are 16 connection words for today:
| Personal | Harbor | Main | Departure |
| Private | Demand | Pop-up window | Market |
| Audience | To want | Captain | Jack |
| General | Appetite | Electric socket | Attack |
Connection hint for June 26
Here’s a clue for each group of words in today’s Connections puzzle, plus a few extra clues to support you find the answer:
- Yellow (easiest): Think about the military.
- Green (straightforward): When you need to charge your device.
- Blue (medium): Various words relating to the desires of the masses.
- Purple (hardest): All of these words precede another word that is synonymous with the word “commercial.”
- Bonus tip 1: “Jack” and “port” belong to the same group.
- Bonus tip 2: “I want” does not belong to the Blue group.
Connection groups for June 26
If you need even more guidance to solve today’s Connections puzzle, below we’ll reveal the four correct Connection groups – the themes that connect each set of four words in the Connections grid together.
Here are today’s Connections groups:
- Army ranks
- A place to plug something in
- Consumer desires, collectively
- Words preceding “advertisement”
Now that you know the reasoning behind the different connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check out the full answer below.
Spoiler alert! The answer to today’s Connections offer is before us!
What is the response to Connections today (Wednesday, June 26)?
- Army ranks: Captain, general, major, private
- Place to connect something: Jack, socket, port, socket
- Consumer desires in total: Appetite, audience, demand, market
- Words preceding “advertisement”: Attack, Personal, Popup, I want
Congratulations if you answered today’s Connections question correctly, with or without the support of our helpful tips above! And if you didn’t succeed today, don’t worry – a fresh Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!
What is Connections?
Connections is a word puzzle published daily by the NYT, host of the endlessly popular Wordle Puzzle. Created daily by crossword creator Wyna Liu, Connections presents a selection of 16 seemingly disparate words to be grouped into four sets of four words, with each group of four words having a common theme.
For example, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter”, and “Wendy” are all Peter Pan characters. Let’s take another example: “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go” and “Stick” are words that usually appear right before the word “Figure”.
Your job is to guess what themes connect the different words together – but be careful because most of the time red herrings are deliberately placed there to confuse you! To win the game you must find all four connections without making 4 mistakes. On the fourth mistake, the game ends and the answer is revealed automatically.
Each of the four groups in the daily Connection puzzle is also assigned a different color to represent how straightforward or hard it is to find the Connection. These colors are: yellow (easiest), green (straightforward), blue (medium), and purple (hardest).
That wraps up today’s guide on how to solve the NYT Connections word puzzle. If you’re looking for support with Wordle, we also have our list of previous Wordle answers, as well as a Wordle tip and answer for Tuesday, June 25. You can also check out our list of the best starting words for Wordle or exploit our Wordle Solver to find the answer with ease!
