NYT Connections today hints and answers for Thursday, June 11 #1,096 (original) (raw)
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Today's puzzle has a few tricks up its sleeve but you want to get a bit punny.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for June 11 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,096. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,095, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.
Alternatively, visit our how to play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.
What is Connections
Solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.
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Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Today's Connection Grid and Words
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- Devil
- Strip
- Papl
- Broncho
- Veno
- Brass Band
- Uconn
- Rhino
- Cardio
- Trouper
- Viking Helmet
- Balance
- Elle
- Weights
- Forerunner
- Stretching
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Gym activity
- 🟩 Green: Spiky
- 🟦 Blue: Crossover
- 🟪 Purple: IOU
Today's Connections Group Hints
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Parts of a workout routine
- 🟩 Green: Things with horns
- 🟦 Blue: Homophones of SUVs
- 🟪 Purple: Payment apps minus a letter
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Today's Connections answers
The Connections answers on June 11 for puzzle #1,096 are way harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 3 out of 5.
- 🟨 Technique: Fashion, manner, method, way
- 🟩 Gross things that form on wet surfaces: Crust, film, scum, skin
- 🟦 Parts of a theater: Catwalk, pit, stage, wings
- 🟪 Counted in document word counts: Character, line, page, word
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I took an embarrassing number of strikes trying to make a team logo set with rhino, viking helmet, and devil before I clicked on the horns idea, which got me to brass band.
Broncho is a word I looked at for my logos and combined with forerunner is how I found the SUVs. Took a moment to find trouper and UConn, but we got there.
The workout words were obvious so I started putting in the other four when the payment apps clicked with Venmo. The others being Zelle, Paypal, and Stripe.
And my final four were the yellow set of balance, cardio, stretching and weights.
Saved this one with one strike left because I got stubborn on logos. Ah well.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Technique: Fashion, manner, method, way
- 🟩 Gross things that form on wet surfaces: Crust, film, scum, skin
- 🟦 Parts of a theater: Catwalk, pit, stage, wings
- 🟪 Counted in document word counts: Character, line, page, word
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,095, which had a difficulty rating of 1.5 out of 5.
Weirdly, I got obsessed with the idea of actors whose name was missing a letter thanks to Pit and Page. It took an embarrassing amount of time for me to come off it.
Eventually, pit and catwalk got me to the theater. That's how I got to stage and wings for the blue set.
I used page to find the Word doc set of character, line, and word.
It was a guess between the green and yellow, and it feels like the Connections makers have been putting the nouns in the green set lately rather than the yellow. So I put crust, film, scum, and skin in first.
Which left fashion, manner, method, and way as my final four techniques.
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