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Today's puzzle will take you through the looking glass.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for June 14 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,099. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,098, 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
- Grindstone
- Mother
- Caterpillar
- Cream pie
- Massachusetts
- Tea party
- Gyroscope
- Globe
- Pocket watch
- Seltzer bottle
- Milliampere
- Roulette wheel
- Banana peel
- Master of arts
- Rabbit hole
- Rubber chicken
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Clowning around
- 🟩 Green: Getting dizzy
- 🟦 Blue: A very merry unbirthday
- 🟪 Purple: A baby's first word
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: Classic slapstick props
- 🟩 Green: Things that spin
- 🟦 Blue: Featured in 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'
- 🟪 Purple: What 'ma' might refer to
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 14 for puzzle #1,099 are a bit harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.2 out of 5.
- 🟨 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
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.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Seen at a tea service: Saucer, spoon, teacup, tongs
- 🟩 Enduring song: Classic, hit, oldie, standard
- 🟦 Used in movie practical effects: Makeup, miniature, prosthetic, puppet
- 🟪 Words before "story" in movie titles: Christmas, neverending, toy, west side
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,098, which had a difficulty rating of 1.8 out of 5.
After a run of somewhat harder puzzles, today's Saturday grid asks you to relax, perhaps with a favorite flick or song over a warm cup.
Stories is how I got into today's puzzle, starting with NeverEnding. It helped that West Side and Christmas were next door to confirm. Then it was just glancing around the grid to find Toy.
Sticking to films, prosthetic and makeup got me into the effects. Puppet and miniature quickly followed.
Between the final 8 I was guessing at which was green or yellow, both were viable. Anyway, I picked the tea set of saucer, spoon, teacup and tongs first.
I've felt that Connections has been leaning away from nouns in favor of slightly more abstract words for the yellow sets recently which is partly why I put in the tea set first. They got me today.
This left the green connections of classic, hit, oldie and standard for my final four.
