Want a different day?
A new NYT Connections puzzle appears every day at midnight for your time zone – which means some people are still playing “today’s game” while others are playing “yesterday’s.” If you are looking for the Monday puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections Tips and Answers for Monday, June 22 (Thu #1107).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the clever word game from the New York Times that challenges you to group answers into different categories. This can be difficult, so read on if you need tips on connections.
What should you do once you’re done? Well, play other word games of course. I also have daily Strands tips and answers and articles on Quordle tips and answers if you need help with those too, while Marc’s Wordle page today covers the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: The information on NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (set #1108) – words of the day
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- MONEY
- YANKES
- HOTEL
- FOXTROT
- MODERN
- CHIMNEY
- POPULAR
- ACT
- EMPEROR
- FEATURED
- TOKEN
- FAUCET
- RECENT
- SWING
- EARTH
- TENDENCY
NYT Connections today (game #1108) – clue #1 – group clues
What are the clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Switch to music
- GREEN:Parts of a popular board game
- BLUE: Organizing 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 themed answers are for today’s NYT Connections riddles…
NYT Connections today (game #1108) – clue #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: DANCE STYLES
- GREEN: IN A MONOPOLY BOX
- BLUE: INLINE CONTENT SORTING OPTIONS
- PURPLE: THINGS WITH COATS/MANTELS
That’s right, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #1108) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections game #1108 are…
- YELLOW: DANCE STYLES FOXTROT, MODERN, SWING, FAUCET
- GREEN: IN A MONOPOLY BOX ACT, HOTEL, MONEY, TOKEN
- BLUE: INLINE CONTENT SORTING OPTIONS FEATURED, POPULAR, RECENT, TRENDING
- PURPLE: THINGS WITH COATS/MANTELS EARTH, EMPEROR, FIREPLACE, YANKEES
- My rating: Hard
- My rating: Perfect
The phonetic alphabet including HOTEL, FOXTROT and especially Yankee – not the YANKEES – was today’s trap/joke and if it wasn’t easy to spot DANCE STYLES I might have fallen for it.
Yankee Hotel in Foxtrot it’s also the name of a great Wilco album, but I digress…
I then chose the blue group, thinking that the four words described sounded like labels you would put on a report rather than ONLINE CONTENT SORTING OPTIONS, which I really should have seen since I do a lot of content sorting.
The last group I found was IN A MONOPOLY BOX, although I can’t say I ever thought of street cards as being an ACT.
Answers from yesterday’s NYT Connections (Monday June 22, Thu #1107)
- YELLOW: DOMINANT ALPHA, HEAD, LEAD, PRIMARY
- GREEN: MULTIPLICATION INDICATORS BY, TIMES, X, •
- BLUE: PRONUNCIATION DESCRIPTORS SHORT, QUIET, SOFT, STRESSED
- PURPLE: START WITH EXPLOSIVE ONOMATOPOEIA 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 difficulty level: green is easy, yellow is a little more difficult, blue is often quite difficult, and purple is usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you technically don’t need to solve the final question, as you will be able to answer it through a process of elimination. Additionally, you can make up to four mistakes, giving you some breathing room.
However, it’s a bit more complex than something like Wordle, and the game provides plenty of opportunities to trip you up with tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other puns that could obscure the answers.
It is playable for free via the NYT Games website on computer or mobile.
