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Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for June 25 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,110. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,109, 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
- Polonium
- Cranium
- Compact
- Hockey
- Croquette
- Trackpad
- Lead
- Squashed
- Mercury
- Ductile
- Dense
- Microphone
- Monitor
- Francium
- Printer
- Compressed
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Accessories
- 🟩 Green: Crammed
- 🟦 Blue: Periodic
- 🟪 Purple: Birdy
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: Computer peripherals
- 🟩 Green: Tightly packed
- 🟦 Blue: Hazardous elemental metals
- 🟪 Purple: Starting with bird homophones
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 25 for puzzle #1,110 are much easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 1 out of 5.
- 🟨 Computer peripherals: Microphone, monitor, printer, trackpad
- 🟩 Tightly packed: Compact, compressed, dense, squashed
- 🟦 Hazardous elemental metals: Francium, lead, mercury, polonium
- 🟪 Starting with bird homophones: Cranium, croquette, ductile, hockey
I ended up going down the line today, mostly because I didn't trust myself.
For example, I saw the elemental words pretty quickly but didn't place them because I thought it was too obvious. Which is why I started with the peripherals in microphone, printer, trackpad, and monitor.
Then I put together the crammed words of compact, compressed, dense and squashed.
I finally put the elements in with francium, lead, mercury and polonium.
Which left the birds of cranium (crane), croquette (crow), ductile (duck), and hockey (hawk).
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Prog bands: Genesis, king crimson, pink floyd, rush
- 🟩 Classic wedding gifts: China, luggage, money, toaster
- 🟦 Red characters: Clifford, deadpool, kool-aid man, mr. krabs
- 🟪 Rhyming compound words: Chick flick, helter skelter, humpty dumpty, mumbo jumbo
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,109, which had a difficulty rating of 2.5 out of 5.
I saw the first set almost immediately with mumbo jump, helter skelter, chick flick and humpty dumpty. It was so obvious that I actually paused and didn't put it in.
Instead, I went for the red characters which was equally obvious to me, but I'm not sure why that mattered less than the rhyming words. So, I put in Kool-Aid Man, Mr. Krabs, Clifford and Deadpool next. Then I dropped the rhymes just to see.
King Crimson clued me into the prog rock bands, quickly followed by Genesis, Pink Floyd, and Rush.
It's been a minute since my wedding, where I did not receive a toaster. Do people still gift toasters? We did get china and some money, no luggage though. I'm now wondering if people were holding out. Ah, I can't complain; it was a great event, the loved ones we wanted there attended. I recall it fondly and remember few, if any, of the gifts.
