Today's Connections Hints & Answers For June 11, 2024 (Puzzle #365)

It's time for Tuesday's puzzle and players will want to know a few hints and tricks to help them with this one. It's a bit tricky and has two categories with similar themes and ideas, so choosing which word to go in which category can be difficult. However, with a little help from us this puzzle should be easy to get through once you know your tricks.

If you like, you might also like NYT's other word-game , which allows you to use honeycombs to make words. Like in, you can also shuffle the honeycombs around to give you a better perspective. Find the right combinations and make as many words as you possibly can to win.

Wordle, the popular word-guessing game hosted by The New York Times, has over 1,700 words remaining as possible solutions.

Today has some interesting categories that make use of sound in different ways. Here are the categories for today's puzzle if you just need a hint to complete the challenge:

HOMOPHONES

MUSCLES, INFORMALLY

MUSIC GENRES

SETTINGS ON AN APPLIANCE KNOB

With so many different two-letter words in today's, there was a lot to work with, and making sure we scored the correct ones was a bit of a struggle. If you had trouble like we did though, just check out the fully spoiled answers below and score yourself an easy win.

HOMOPHONES

BI

BUY

BY

BYE

Four words that all look and sound very similar? There was something suspicious there. However, the BI in particular looked like it could belong to three other categories, so it had us second-guessing our initial conclusion. It's good that we decided to check it anyway, so we could get the category correct!

MUSCLES, INFORMALLY

AB

PEC

QUAD

TRI

We may not know much about working out, but we do know enough about human anatomy to recognize this bunch. It was here that BI stood out as a possible answer that seemed like it should fit. But a little experimentation led to recognizing that biceps just are not important in this category today.

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