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A new NEW Connections puzzle pops up at midnight every day for your time zone – meaning some people are always playing “today’s game” while others are playing “yesterday’s”. If you’re looking for Friday’s puzzle instead then click here: NEW Connections Hints and Answers for Friday, June 19 (Game #1104).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers into different categories. It can be difficult, so read on if you need Connections tips.
What are you going to do when you’re done? Why, play some more puns of course. I also have daily Strands Hints and Answers and Quordle Hints and Answers articles if you need help with those too, while Marc’s Wordle Today page covers the original viral pun.
SPOILER ALERT: Today’s NYT Connections information is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NEW Connections today (game #1105) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- CHAMPION
- NEW YORK
- KNICKS
- JUMPIN’
- ROCKER
- BUTTON BAG
- BEAN BAG
- BOLSTER
- JACK KNIFE
- SUPPORT
- CRANK-CRANK
- LOUIE
- BACK
- SCALE
- REBEL
- Reclining chair
NEW Connections today (game #1105) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: A letter you cannot hear
- GREEN: Get behind someone
- BLUE: Sit on these
- PURPLE: So good they named them twice
Need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NEW Connections today (game #1105) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: WITH QUIET AND PRONOUNCED “K”S
- GREEN: SUPPORT
- BLUE: SHAPE OF CHAIRS
- PURPLE: WORDS REPEATED IN HIT TITLE
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #1105) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #1105, are…
- YELLOW: WITH QUIET AND PRONOUNCED “K”S JACKKNIFE, KNAPSACK, KNICKS, KNOCK-KNOCK
- GREEN: SUPPORT BACK, BOLSTER, CHAMPION, SUPPORT
- BLUE: SHAPE OF CHAIRS BANSET BAG, BOW BOW, ROCKER, CABINET
- PURPLE: WORDS REPEATED IN HIT TITLE JUMPIN’, LOUIE, NEW YORK, REBEL
- My assessment: Hard
- My score: 1 error
My mistake came when I was on the right track, but I thought the BOLSTER was one of those kinds of chairs, and the BEANBAG was definitely not. But anything can be a chair if you sit on it.
After finally getting the blue group correct, I was confused about WORDS REPEATED IN HIT SONG TITLE — LOUIE, NEW YORK, REBEL all seemed correct, but I played JUMPIN’ as I had completely forgotten the Destiny’s Child song Jumpin’ Jumpin’; CRANK-CRANK almost fooled me, but I resisted.
The yellow group, meanwhile, was one I ignored as I found the silent K’s too obvious. How will the Connections get the KNICKS into a game next?
Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Friday, June 19, Game #1104)
- YELLOW: UMAMI-RICH FOODS MISOPASTA, PARMESAN, SOY SAUCE, VEGETABLES
- GREEN: THINGS A BEGINNER MIGHT LEARN ON THE PIANO Chopsticks, FÜR ELISE, HEART AND SOUL, THE ENTERTAINER
- BLUE: STARTS WITH MAGAZINES FORTUNE COOKIE, PEOPLE PERSON, SPINDERELLA, TIME MACHINE
- PURPLE: ENDS WITH SYNONYMS FOR “TOTAL” RANDOM, DIM SUM, TEETOTAL, VISCOUNT
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four elements that share something in common, and each group has a different degree of difficulty: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough, and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you technically don’t need to solve the last one, as you’ll be able to answer it by a process of elimination. Also, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It’s a bit more involved than something like Wordle, though, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to let you beat yourself up with tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other puns that can hide the answers.
It can be played for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
