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Today's puzzle has a tricky purple and nostalgic blue.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for June 21 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,106. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,105, 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
- Diggity
- Rocks
- Slapdash
- Scrubs
- Surprises
- Rain
- Dissect
- Floors
- Barbados
- Community
- Stuns
- Sprinkles
- Showers
- Wings
- Drizzle
- Friends
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Cats and dogs
- 🟩 Green: Strike
- 🟦 Blue: Peacock
- 🟪 Purple: A rude start
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: Precipitation
- 🟩 Green: Bowls over
- 🟦 Blue: NBC sitcoms
- 🟪 Purple: Starting with kinds of insults
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 21 for puzzle #1,106 are slightly easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 1.7 out of 5.
- 🟨 Precipitation: Drizzle, rain, showers, sprinkles
- 🟩 Bowls over: Floors, rocks, stuns, surprises
- 🟦 NBC sitcoms: Community, Friends, Scrubs, Wings
- 🟪 Starting with kinds of insults: Barbados, diggity, dissect, slapdash
I'm a sucker for a sitcom, and once I saw Scrubs and Community, I knew exactly where this connection was headed. I picked up Friends easily enough, and while I never watched Wings (it was a bit before my time), I was a big fan of Tony Shalhoub in "Monk" and remember hearing that's the show that initially launched his career.
With blue out of the way, I spotted a quartet of synonyms for when it's pouring cats and dogs out: drizzle, rain, showers, and sprinkles.
Then came green with another bunch of synonyms for laying something flat with floors, rocks, stuns, and surprises.
That left purple as today's rote fill with barbados, diggity, dissect, and slapdash.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Featuring silent and pronounced "K"s: Jackknife, knapsack, knicks, knock-knock
- 🟩 Endorse: Back, bolster, champion, support
- 🟦 Kinds of chairs: Beanbag, recliner, rocker, stool
- 🟪 Words repeated in hit song titles: Jumpin', louie, new york, rebel
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,105, which had a difficulty rating of 2.3 out of 5.
I see what you did there New York Times. Congrats to your team; perhaps one day my Blazers will return to the mountaintop — probably not with the current owner, but what can you do?
Anyway, I started with the seats because after the Knicks bit, that's what I saw. So I grabbed beanbag, rocker, recliner and stool.
A different song got me onto the doubles songs. I thought of Billy Idol's Rebel Yell first before David Bowie's Rebel Rebel came to mind. That clicked the set for me with Louie Louie, and I was able to hunt down New York New York and Jumpin' Jumpin'. Though I suppose that apostrophe makes Jumpin stick out, so some may get the purple earlier.
From there, champion, support, bolster, and back were next.
Which left the interesting silent and said Ks list of jackknife, knapsack, Knicks and knock-knock.
