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Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for June 8 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,093. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,092, 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.
Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Today's Connection Grid and Words
- Invisible
- Mohawk
- Island
- Punch
- Volleyball
- Elephant
- Coconut
- Delta
- Peninsula
- Pate
- Sea urchin
- Melon
- Omega
- Isthmus
- Dome
- Running
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Geography
- 🟩 Green: Noggin
- 🟦 Blue: A different kind of spike
- 🟪 Purple: Movies missing a word
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: Landforms by water
- 🟩 Green: Slang for head
- 🟦 Blue: Things that can be spiked
- 🟪 Purple: "The ___ man" movies
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 8 for puzzle #1,093 are the same difficulty as yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.8 out of 5.
- 🟨 Landforms by water: Delta, island, isthmus, peninsula
- 🟩 Slang for head: Coconut, dome, melon, pate
- 🟦 Things that can be spiked: Mohawk, punch, sea urchin, volleyball
- 🟪 "The ___ man" movies: Elephant, invisible, omega, running
I went down the line again today, though I had to look up what an isthmus was before solving yellow with delta, island, and peninsula.
I've never heard pate used as slang for someone's noggin, so I struck out once before getting green with coconut, dome, and melon rounding out the rest.
Mohawk and sea urchin immediately struck me as being related because of their spikey texture, but it took me a second to realize the wordplay with punch and volleyball for blue.
That left purple as today's rote fill with elephant, invisible, omega, and running.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Translucent, as fabric: Gauzy, gossamer, sheer, thin
- 🟩 Speak: Express, state, utter, voice
- 🟦 Demolish: Gut, level, total, trash
- 🟪 Music genre suffixes: Core, pop, step, wave
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,092, which had a difficulty rating of 2.8 out of 5.
I went down the line today starting with descriptors of see-through fabrics: gauzy, gossamer, sheer, and thin.
After that came a quartet of synonyms for speak with express, state, utter, and voice.
I thought maybe level and pop could be related (you can add "up" after each to form a common phrase) but then I realized trash, total, and gut were more aligned with level and that's how I got blue.
That left purple as today's rote fill with core, pop, step, and wave.
