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Today's puzzle is an explosive lesson.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for June 22 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,107. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,106, 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
- Stressed
- Boomer
- Powder
- Head
- Alpha
- Soft
- X
- Lead
- Times
- Primary
- Silent
- •
- Short
- Popsicle
- By
- Bangkok
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: The opposite of recessive
- 🟩 Green: Times tables
- 🟦 Blue: Grammar school
- 🟪 Purple: Starting with a kaboom
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: Dominant
- 🟩 Green: Multiplication indicators
- 🟦 Blue: Pronunciation descriptors
- 🟪 Purple: Starting with explosive onomatopoeia
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 22 for puzzle #1,107 are slightly easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2 out of 5.
- 🟨 Dominant: Alpha, head, lead, primary
- 🟩 Multiplication indicators: By, times, x, •
- 🟦 Pronunciation descriptors: Short, silent, soft, stressed
- 🟪 Starting with explosive onomatopoeia: Bangkok, boomer, popsicle, powder
I've never seen a symbol as one of the clues before, but I couldn't figure out what the • went with so I put that aside for now. I kicked things off by striking out trying to connect all the terms for generations I spotted (alpha, boomer, silent, and x), which was apparently exactly the kind of trap the Connections Crew was expecting.
Ok, so maybe another definition of alpha then? Lead, primary, and head meant something similar, and with that I got yellow.
I'm usually terrible at the purple categories, especially when the connection is part of the word, but something about bangkok as the only location on the board made me think we weren't dealing with the city. I broke it down into parts, and all of a sudden, boomer started looking like a match. Powder and popsicle followed a similar rule to solve purple.
After that I dug back into what I remembered from middle school English and snagged a bunch of descriptions for how to pronounce words: short, silent, soft, and stressed.
That left green as today's rote fill with the aforementioned • along with by, times, and x.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 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
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,106, which had a difficulty rating of 1.7out of 5.
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.
