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Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for June 6 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,091. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,090, 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
- Dinner
- Express
- Post
- Round
- Dragon
- Register
- Times
- Shaft
- Display
- Monitor
- Stake
- Skink
- Betray
- Basilisk
- Drafting
- Pole
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Stick
- 🟩 Green: Emotional
- 🟦 Blue: Scaly
- 🟪 Purple: Mesa
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: Pillar
- 🟩 Green: Indicate, as emotions
- 🟦 Blue: Kinds of lizards
- 🟪 Purple: ____ Table
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 6 for puzzle #1,091 are way, way easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.5 out of 5.
- 🟨 Pillar: Pole, post, shaft, stake
- 🟩 Indicate, as emotions: Betray, display, express, register
- 🟦 Kinds of lizards: Basilisk, dragon, monitor, skink
- 🟪 ____ Table: Dinner, drafting, round, times
My way into today's puzzle was the skink, a type of lizard. That led to monitor. And despite being fantasy creatures, the dragon and basilisk are considered lizards in one form or another.
The sticks of pole, post, shaft and stake were obviously yellow so I saved that.
I next spotted betray, display, express and register, which I assumed was green since it didn't seem to have a trick.
Which left dinner table, drafting table, round table and times table as the purple.
And that's the order I submitted things in: purple, green, then yellow.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Associated with Hansel and Gretel: Breadcrumb, forest, oven, witch
- 🟩 Bit of cereal: Cluster, flake, loop, puff
- 🟦 Demi Moore movies: Disclosure, ghost, striptease, the substance
- 🟪 Ending in methods of transportation: Incubus, oscar, quatrain, situationship
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,090, which had a difficulty rating of 1.8 out of 5.
Because I saw as I see things, The Substance was obvious from jump, which led me down the Demi Moore path. Ghost and Disclosure were the next two I saw. I momentarily forgot about Striptease but eventually found that one for the blue set.
Trying to figure out Quatrain is how I got the purple set when I split the word and saw train. Situationship solidified the set, and then it was just hunting to find oscar and incubus.
I thought the cereals would be the yellow set, which is why I put in the Hansel and Gretel words of breadcrumb, forest, oven, and witch next. Quelle surprise.
Anyway, that left cluster, flake, loop, and puff as my final four.
