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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 Saturday puzzle instead then click here: NEW Connections Hints and Answers for Saturday, June 6 (Game #1091).
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 #1092) – word of the day
Today’s NEW Connections word is…
- POP
- GUT
- QUITE
- STATE
- PRONUNCIATION
- WAVE
- LEVEL
- STEP
- TOTAL
- EXPRESSION
- THIN
- WASTE
- GOSSAMER
- NUCLEAR
- VOTE
- GAUZY
NEW Connections today (game #1092) – tip #1 – group tip
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Browse material
- GREEN: Say something
- BLUE: Destroy it
- PURPLE: Partial audio categories
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 #1092) – tip #2 – group answer
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: TRANSPARENT, LIKE FABRIC
- GREEN: NUMBERS
- BLUE: DEGRADE
- PURPLE: MUSIC GENRE SUFFIXES
Okay, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NEW Connections today (game #1092) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #1092, are…
- YELLOW: TRANSPARENT, LIKE FABRIC GAUZY, GOSSAMER, NUR, THIN
- GREEN: NUMBERS EXPRESS, STATE, Utter, VOICE
- BLUE: DEGRADE BOY, LEVEL, TOTAL, TRASH
- PURPLE: MUSIC GENRE SUFFIXES CORE, POP, STEP, WAVE
- My assessment: Easy
- My score: Perfect
Of all the MUSIC GENRE SUFFIXES, I think WAVE is the most common – Synthwave, Darkwave, Coldwave, Chillwave, Emowave, Doomwave, Dreamwave, Retrowave, New Wave, Old Wave… you can pretty much put any word in front of it and invent a movement. CORE, on the other hand, is more difficult to attach.
Having said all that, I was with a journalist the other day who claims to have coined the term Brit POP – a genre that originally put hundreds of other vaguely similar guitar bands under the same umbrella. Now it’s an era synonymous with just one act, Oasis.
I visited Oasis once in the early 2000s and me and the other drunk people I was with thought it would be hilarious to just sing the name “Barry” to every single one of their lyrics. It must have been very annoying. Such an action today would get us kicked out of Britain for treason.
Anyway, I digress…
Yesterday’s NEW Connections Answer (Saturday, June 6, Game #1091)
- YELLOW: PILLAR POLE, POST, SHAFT, PILE
- GREEN: INDICATES LIKE EMOTIONS DISTRIBUTE, DISPLAY, EXPRESS, REGISTER
- BLUE: SHAPE OF LIZARDS BASIL, DRAGON, MONITOR, SKIN
- PURPLE: _____TABLE DINNER, CLIMBING, ROUND, HALLWAYS
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.
