It’s fun Friday and time for anotherConnectionspuzzle. Today’s puzzle has a few red herrings and a category with no clear connection at first glance. This can make it fairly challenging to complete theConnectionspuzzle today, but fortunately we are here with all the tricks and spoilers if you want them.
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Today’s Connections Category Hints
JUNE 14 #368
For those who just want a hint, here are theConnectionscategories for June 14th.Today, knowing the categories is especially helpful due to how the words are grouped together.
PAPER
REPORTS
This category was the easiest of the bunch today, although PAPER was a bit of a red herring as ERASER and PENCIL are also in later categories. This made it a little challenging but noticing that ESSAY and REPORT were also present made us reconsider PAPER for this category and once we did ARTICLE made sense to belong here as well.
ERASER
FLAMINGO
This one was hard without knowing what the groupings were. ERASER made so much sense with either PENCIL or PAPER and did not end up grouped with either! Everything in this category is also very different, apart from their coloring, so it was a bit harder to think about the colors when trying to assemble the words for this category.
VICTOR
YANKEE
Those who have had to use the phonetic alphabet extensively will be at a strong advantage for this puzzle. FOXTROT also being a dance threw us off a little, but once HOTEL and YANKEE were correctly identified it was a lot easier and VICTOR was the only thing that did not belong elsewhere. YANKEE also was a bit of a red herring because of someone in the next category.
PENCIL
SILVER MEDAL
DEREK JETER is the red herring here, as YANKEE could also be strongly associated with him. However, we suspect baseball fans would likely have a better knowledge of his association with #2 as well. PENCIL also made this category tricky for being close to ERASER and PAPER. SILVER MEDAL and DEPUTY made a lot of sense together, but the other words being the only ones left is what solved this category for us.
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