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Today's puzzle wants red rhymes at a prog wedding.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for June 24 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,109. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,108, 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
- Humpty Dumpty
- Toaster
- Pink Floyd
- Money
- Kool-Aid Man
- Helter Skelter
- China
- Rush
- Chick Flick
- Deadpool
- Luggage
- Genesis
- Clifford
- Mumbo Jumbo
- King Crimson
- Mr. Krabs
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Drumming
- 🟩 Green: Gift registry
- 🟦 Blue: Rojo
- 🟪 Purple: Dumbo
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: Prog bands
- 🟩 Green: Classic wedding gifts
- 🟦 Blue: Red characters
- 🟪 Purple: Rhyming compound words
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 24 for puzzle #1,109 are a bit harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.5 out of 5.
- 🟨 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
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.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Dance styles: Foxtrot, modern, swing, tap
- 🟩 In a Monopoly box: Deed, hotel, money, token
- 🟦 Content sorting options online: Featured, popular, recent, trending
- 🟪 Things with mantles/mantels: Earth, emperor, fireplace, yankees
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,108, which had a difficulty rating of 2.8 out of 5.
I went dancing to start today's puzzle with swing, foxtrot, and tap. It did take me a moment to click on to modern.
Admittedly, I started today looking at featured, popular, recent, and trending, but thought that was actually the yellow set, so in one of my rare moves, I skipped it for the dances. Color me surprised that it was blue.
Monopoly, a game I loathe, connected next with deed, hotel, money, and token.
This left the purple set of earth, emperor, fireplace, and yankees all of which have a Mantel or a Mantle.
