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Spoiler-light hints
- Yellow: Pay packet
- Green: Gandalf’s wardrobe
- Blue: Ship shape
- Purple: Third letter
Category names
Spoilers below: The following section names all four categories.
- Yellow: Take home, as income
- Green: Parts of a wizard costume
- Blue: Found on a ship
- Purple: C-___
Full answers for Connections #359
Full spoilers: The four groups and their words are listed here.
- Take home, as income: CLEAR, EARN, MAKE, NET
- Parts of a wizard costume: BEARD, HAT, ROBE, STAFF
- Found on a ship: BRIDGE, DECK, HATCH, KEEL
- C-___: CLEF, SECTION, SPAN, SUITE
Why the purple group is a word-completion puzzle
Put “C-” before each word to form C-clef, C-section, C-span, and C-suite. Unlike the literal costume and ship categories, this group depends on recognizing four familiar expressions with the same prefix.
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Red herrings that can blur the groups
- NET can suggest a fishing net, but in this puzzle it is a verb meaning to receive or make income.
- BRIDGE can bring music to mind, but here it is a part of a ship.
- SUITE may suggest a hotel room; paired with “C-,” it completes C-suite.
About the puzzle and archive
Connections presents 16 words to sort into four groups of four. Groups can rely on direct subject links or, as the purple set does here, a phrase-completion pattern. The official NYT Connections archive is available to All Access and Games subscribers and reaches back to June 12, 2023, covering this puzzle’s date.
NYT says Connections statistics reflect puzzles played from June 15, 2024 onward. Those statistics therefore do not provide a player-stat record for this June 4 puzzle.
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