Are you looking for a different day?
A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight every day for your time zone, which means some people are always playing “today’s game” while others play “yesterday’s game.” If you are instead looking for Wednesday’s puzzle then click here: NYT Connections Tips & Answers for Wednesday, June 10 (Game #1095).
Good day! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers into various categories. It can be difficult, so read on if you need Connections tips.
What should you do once you’re done? Well, play more word games, of course. I also have daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc’s Wordle’s current page covers the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections Today (Set #1096) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- DEVIL
- BAND
- PAPAL
- FOAL HAIR
- VEIN
- MARKET BAND
- UCONN
- RHINOCEROS
- CARDIO
- THEATER COMPANY MEMBER
- VIKING HELMET
- BALANCE
- ELLE
- WEIGHTS
- PRECURSOR
- EXTENSION
NYT Connections Today (Game #1096) – Clue #1 – Group Hints
What are some leads for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: fitness session
- GREEN: Everyone has something that rhymes with “thorns.”
- BLUE: Sounds like a big vehicle
- PURPLE: Digital wallets
Do you need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the answers are to the four topics for today’s NYT Connections riddles…
NYT Connections Today (Game #1096) – Clue #2 – Group Answers
What are the answers for current NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: PARTS OF A TRAINING ROUTINE
- GREEN: THINGS WITH HORNS
- BLUE: SUV HOMOPHONES
- PURPLE: PAID APPS LESS ONE LETTER
Well, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections Today (Game #1096): The Answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #1096 are…
- YELLOW: PARTS OF A TRAINING ROUTINE BALANCE, CARDIO, STRETCHING, WEIGHTS
- GREEN: THINGS WITH HORNS BRASS BAND, DEVIL, RHINO, VIKING HELMET
- BLUE: SUV HOMOPHONES BRONCHO, PRECURSOR, TROUPER, UCONN
- PURPLE: PAID APPS LESS ONE LETTER ELLE, PAPAL, TIRA, VENO
- My rating: Hard
- My score: Fail
I had a feeling that today would be a difficult day, but I didn’t suspect how frustrating it would be.
At first, I was happy to have a purple one first, although it took me two tries, as although I could see the thread, I couldn’t think of any other digital wallet system after Paypal, Venmo and Stripe. ELLE, which I now know is for Zelle, was a guess.
PARTS OF A WORKOUT ROUTINE I understood it easily enough, but where I fell down was on HORNY THINGS and I couldn’t think laterally with BRASS BAND. Oh well, shoot on Friday.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Wednesday, June 10, Game #1095)
- YELLOW: TECHNIQUE FASHION, MANNER, METHOD, WAY
- GREEN: GROSS THINGS THAT FORM ON WET SURFACES BARK, FILM, SCUMA, SKIN
- BLUE: PARTS OF A THEATER CATWALK, PIT, STAGE, WINGS
- PURPLE: COUNTED IN THE WORD COUNT OF THE DOCUMENT CHARACTER, LINE, PAGE, WORD
What are NYT connections?
NYT Connections is one of the increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow is a little harder, blue is usually quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final question since you’ll be able to answer it through a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little breathing room.
However, it’s a little more complicated than something like Wordle and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For example, be careful with homophones and other puns that could disguise answers.
It can be played for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile devices.
