Check your score later if you care about stats. The NYT has a bot for this. It’s like Wordle’s but for squares. Track your win streak. Or the number of perfect games. Or just the raw win rate. Go play. Then go check.
Here are the answers for June 27. No spoiling unless you look.
Yellow
Easiest color. Always.
The hint? Don’t pass Go.
Monopoly squares.
The words were Boardwalk, Income Tax, Short Line, Water Works. Classic real estate.
Green
Think runway. Think high fashion.
Components of a fashion show.
Catwalk, collection, designer, model. It’s the industry in four words.
Blue
Look at patterns. Lines on things.
Commonly striped objects.
Barber pole, billiard ball, credit card, crosswalk. Everything gets stripes eventually.
Purple
The hard part. Usually the wordplay messes you up here.
Words that end in a horse gait.
Decanter ends in canter. Envelope ends in lope. Firewalk ends in walk. Foxtrot ends in trot.
You have to hear it to get it. Sometimes.
Neigh is not a word but the theme is equine movement.
History of Suffering
Curious which puzzles wrecked everyone else? The archives have the villains.
- #1: Things that run (candidate, faucet, mascara, nose).
- #2: Power ___ (nap, plant, Ranger, trip).
- #3: Streets on screen (Elm, Fear, Jump, Sesame).
- #4: One in a dozen (egg, juror, month, rose).
- #5: Things you set (mood, record, table, volleyball).
Patterns emerge if you stare at them long enough. Or not. You’ll see next week anyway.
