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Today's puzzle will take you to a garden in a going-out top.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for June 15 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,100. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,099, 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
- Horse
- Anemone
- Snake
- Change
- Legs
- Dog
- Larkspur
- Shower
- Dragon
- Traction
- Primp
- Monkshood
- Momentum
- Phlox
- Accessorize
- Stamina
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Longevity
- 🟩 Green: GRWM
- 🟦 Blue: Fruits Basket
- 🟪 Purple: Flora
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: Staying power
- 🟩 Green: Get ready for a night out
- 🟦 Blue: Chinese zodiac animals
- 🟪 Purple: Flowers
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 15 for puzzle #1,100 are a bit easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2 out of 5.
- 🟨 Staying power: Legs, momentum, stamina, traction
- 🟩 Get ready for a night out: Accessorize, change, primp, shower
- 🟦 Chinese zodiac animals: Dog, dragon, horse, snake
- 🟪 Flowers: Anemone, larkspur, monkshood, phlox
I've been getting into gardening since buying a house, and I was excited to recognize Phlox and Larkspur from those efforts. I still don't know what Monkshood is, but of the remaining clues, it seemed the most flower-like. After striking out with a few other guesses for flora, I scored purple with Anemone.
After that I went to the opposite end of the difficulty spectrum with a quartet of synonyms for yellow: legs, momentum, stamina, and traction.
Moving on to blue, I was a huge fan of Fruits Basket growing up so I'm honestly surprised I didn't get this one first. But with only eight clues left, I realized all the animal ones, mythical or otherwise — dragon, dog, horse, and snake — were members of the Chinese zodiac.
That left green as today's rote fill with accessorize, change, primp, and shower.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Classic slapstick props: Banana peel, cream pie, rubber chicken, seltzer bottle
- 🟩 Things that spin: Globe, grindstone, gyroscope, roulette wheel
- 🟦 Featured in 'Alice's adventures in wonderland': Caterpillar, pocket watch, rabbit hole, tea party
- 🟪 What 'ma' might refer to: Massachusetts, master of arts, milliampere, mother
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,099, which had a difficulty rating of 2.2 out of 5.
I jumped around today, starting with yellow which had all the arsenal of classic clownery with banana peel, cream pie, rubber chicken, and seltzer bottle.
I looked at Master of Arts and thought "MA?" which had me looking for other clues with a similar abbreviation. I came up with Massachusetts and Milliampere pretty easily, but it took me a second to get the wordplay behind the last clue for purple: mother.
Rabbit hole and tea party where a pretty clear indicator that we were dealing with Lewis Carroll's seminal novel, and after a quick look around I turned up pocket watch and caterpillar to solve blue.
That left green as today's rote fill with a dizzying around of spinning objects: globe, grindstone, gyroscope, and roulette wheel.
