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Today's puzzle asks you to visit the theater.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for June 10 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,095. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,094, 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
- Stage
- Page
- Fashion
- Film
- Method
- Skin
- Character
- Wings
- Pit
- Crust
- Word
- Way
- Line
- Catwalk
- Scum
- Manner
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Route
- 🟩 Green: Layer
- 🟦 Blue: Actor's home
- 🟪 Purple: Word Doc
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: Technique
- 🟩 Green: Gross things that form on wet surfaces
- 🟦 Blue: Parts of a theater
- 🟪 Purple: Counted in document word counts
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 10 for puzzle #1,095 are much easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 1.5 out of 5.
- 🟨 Technique: Fashion, manner, method, way
- 🟩 Gross things that form on wet surfaces: Crust, film, scum, skin
- 🟦 Parts of a theater: Catwalk, pit, stage, wings
- 🟪 Counted in document word counts: Character, line, page, word
Weirdly, I got obsessed with the idea of actors whose name was missing a letter thanks to Pit and Page. It took an embarrassing amount of time for me to come off it.
Eventually, pit and catwalk got me to the theater. That's how I got to stage and wings for the blue set.
I used page to find the Word doc set of character, line, and word.
It was a guess between the green and yellow, and it feels like the Connections makers have been putting the nouns in the green set lately rather than the yellow. So I put crust, film, scum, and skin in first.
Which left fashion, manner, method, and way as my final four techniques.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 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
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,094, which had a difficulty rating of 2.8 out of 5.
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.
