NYT Connections Reveals 4 June 20 Groups, Led by Silent-and-Pronounced Ks
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Updated · Forbes · Jun 20
NYT Connections Reveals 4 June 20 Groups, Led by Silent-and-Pronounced Ks
3 articles · Updated · Forbes · Jun 20
Summary
June 20’s NYT Connections solution grouped 16 words into four categories: Featuring Silent and Pronounced Ks, Endorse, Kinds of Chairs, and Words Repeated in Hit Song Titles.
The yellow set proved the twistiest, linking JACKKNIFE, KNAPSACK, KNICKS and KNOCK-KNOCK through differing K pronunciations rather than the more obvious Knicks-championship theme.
Green paired BACK, BOLSTER, CHAMPION and SUPPORT under Endorse, while blue sorted BEANBAG, RECLINER, ROCKER and STOOL as chair types.
Purple was the hardest category, tying JUMPIN’, LOUIE, NEW YORK and REBEL to doubled hit-song titles such as “Jumpin’, Jumpin’” and “New York, New York.”
The puzzle follows an earlier report that the Times had swapped in a Knicks-referencing board after New York’s basketball title, then pushed another planned puzzle to June 30.