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Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for June 9 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,094. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,093, 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
- Asterisk
- Axe
- Angel
- Surprise
- Secret
- Trademark
- Bone
- Dove
- Degree
- Password
- Lamb
- Keys
- Babe
- Skins
- Exponent
- Spoiler
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Cute
- 🟩 Green: Keep it safe
- 🟦 Blue: A little extra
- 🟪 Purple: Playing time
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: Symbols of innocence
- 🟩 Green: Things you're not supposed to reveal
- 🟦 Blue: Things represented in superscript
- 🟪 Purple: Slang for musical instruments
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 8 for puzzle #1,094 are the same difficulty as yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.8 out of 5.
- 🟨 Symbols of innocence: Angel, babe, dove lamb
- 🟩 Things you're not supposed to reveal: Password, secret, spoiler, surprise
- 🟦 Things represented in superscript: Asterisk, degree, exponent, trademark
- 🟪 Slang for musical instruments: Axe, bone, keys, skins
Because today's puzzle was rated in the upper twos, I took an immediate strike when I tried out the deodorant trap that is degree, secret, axe and dove. So, don't do that.
Splitting that set up, I started with degree because I was looking at trademark. The superscript idea is how I got to asterisk and then exponent.
I used secret to get to the spoiler territory of surprise and password, though password was the outlier here at first, and it took a moment for me to accept it.
I spotted the yellow set next and knew it to be the easier set, so I threw in axe, bone, keys and skins without considering what their connection was.
Which left angel, babe, dove and lamb as the final four.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Landforms by water: Delta, island, isthmus, peninsula
- 🟩 Slang for head: Coconut, dome, melon, pate
- 🟦 Things that can be spiked: Mohawk, punch, sea urchin, volleyball
- 🟪 "The ___ man" movies: Elephant, invisible, omega, running
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,093, which had a difficulty rating of 2.8 out of 5.
I went down the line again today, though I had to look up what an isthmus was before solving yellow with delta, island, and peninsula.
I've never heard pate used as slang for someone's noggin, so I struck out once before getting green with coconut, dome, and melon rounding out the rest.
Mohawk and sea urchin immediately struck me as being related because of their spikey texture, but it took me a second to realize the wordplay with punch and volleyball for blue.
That left purple as today's rote fill with elephant, invisible, omega, and running.
