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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 the Monday puzzle instead then click here: NEW Connections Hints and Answers for Monday, June 22nd (Game #1107).
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 #1108) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- MONEY
- YANKEES
- HOTEL
- FOXTROT
- MODERN
- FIREPLACE
- POPULAR
- WORK
- EMPEROR
- SELECTED
- TOKEN
- LOSS
- RECENT
- SWING
- LAND
- TRENDING
NEW Connections today (game #1108) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Moving to music
- GREEN:Parts of a popular board game
- BLUE: Organization of website material
- PURPLE: A manly thing that almost rhymes with “ankles”
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 #1108) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: DANCE STYLES
- GREEN: IN A MONOPOLY BOX
- BLUE: CONTENT SORTING OPTIONS ONLINE
- PURPLE: THINGS WITH MANTLES/ MANTLES
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #1108) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #1108, are…
- YELLOW: DANCE STYLES FOXTROT, MODERN, SWING, TAP
- GREEN: IN A MONOPOLY BOX DAMAGE, HOTEL, MONEY, TOKEN
- BLUE: CONTENT SORTING OPTIONS ONLINE FEATURED, POPULAR, LATEST, TRENDING
- PURPLE: THINGS WITH MANTLES/ MANTLES EARTH, EMPEROR, FIREPLACE, YANKEES
- My assessment: Hard
- My score: Perfect
The phonetic alphabet with HOTEL, FOXTROT and all-important Yankee – not YANKEES – was the trap/joke of the day, and if DANCESTYLE hadn’t been too easy to spot, I might have fallen for it.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is also the name of a great album by Wilco, but I digress…
I got the blue group next and thought all four words described seemed like labels you’d put on a report instead of CONTENT SORTING OPTIONS ONLINE, which considering I do quite a bit of content sorting I really should have seen.
The last group I found was IN A MONOPOLY, although I can’t say I ever thought of the street name cards as being a DAMAGE.
Yesterday’s NEW Connections Answers (Monday, June 22nd, Game #1107)
- YELLOW: DOMINANT ALPHA, MAIN, LEAD, PRIMARY
- GREEN: MULTIPLICATION INDICATORS CITY, TIMES, X, •
- BLUE: PRONUNCIATION DESCRIPTION SHORT, JUMP, Soft, stressed
- PURPLE: STARTS WITH EXPLOSIVE ONOMATOPOEY BANGKOK, BOOMER, POPSICLE, POWDER
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.
