Today's puzzle is all about double meanings and kick offs.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for June 28 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,113. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,111, 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
- Pick
- Chess
- Start
- Select
- Choice
- Go
- Slide
- Corporation
- Begin
- Prime
- Surfer
- Strap
- Capo
- Darts
- Now
- Fine
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Top of the line
- 🟩 Green: Kickoff
- 🟦 Blue: Shredding
- 🟪 Purple: Bored
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: High quality
- 🟩 Green: Signals to commence
- 🟦 Blue: Accessories for guitarists
- 🟪 Purple: They have boards
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 28 for puzzle #1,113 are a bit easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 1.8 out of 5.
- 🟨 High-quality: Choice, prime, fine, select
- 🟩 Signals to commence: Begin, go, now, start
- 🟦 Accessories for a guitarist: Capo, pick, slide, strap
- 🟪 They have boards: Chess, corporation, darts, surfer
I kicked off today's puzzle with a quartet of synonyms for green: begin, go, now, start.
At first I thought there might be a category having to deal with synonyms for making a decision given that select and choice were still left, but then I realized they had another meaning when paired with fine and prime, which rounded out yellow.
My step-dad was a bass player in a blue grass band, and while I had to look up what a capo was, pick, slide, and strap made me think of guitars, which made blue easy to solve.
That left purple as today's rote fill with chess corporation, darts, and surfer.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Monopoly squares: Boardwalk, income tax, short line, water works
- 🟩 Components of a fashion show: Catwalk, collection, designer, model
- 🟦 Commonly striped things: Barber pole, billiard ball, credit card, crosswalk
- 🟪 Ending in horse gaits: Decanter, envelope, firewalk, foxtrot
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,112, which had a difficulty rating of 2.5 out of 5.
Boardwalk put me on to the Monopoly theme, which got me to short line, water works and income tax.
Catwalk and model got me to the fashion show. This led to designer and collection for a little project runway.
The stripes appeared next with barber pole and crosswalk. Then billiard ball and it took a moment for credit card.
This left the horse gaits of decanter, envelope, firewalk, and foxtrot.
