Club Benefits
Today's puzzle is fairly easy, asking you to take in a relaxing story.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for June 13 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,098. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,097, 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
- Puppet
- Teacup
- Classic
- Toy
- Miniature
- Christmas
- Standard
- Spoon
- Hit
- Neverending
- Prosthetic
- Saucer
- West Side
- Oldie
- Tongs
- Makeup
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: English afternoon
- 🟩 Green: Earworm
- 🟦 Blue: SFX
- 🟪 Purple: Tell me one
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: Seen at a tea service
- 🟩 Green: Enduring song
- 🟦 Blue: Used in movie practical effects
- 🟪 Purple: Words before "story" in movie titles
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 13 for puzzle #1,098 are way easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 1.8 out of 5.
- 🟨 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
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.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Starting with incantations: Charm bracelet, curse word, hex key, spell checker
- 🟩 Starting with animal group names: Murder mystery, pack rat, pride rock, school days
- 🟦 Starting with synonyms for "repeat": Copy editor, echo park, mirror selfie, quote unquote
- 🟪 Starting with parts of a river: Bank teller, bed head, delta airlines, mouth guard
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,097, which had a difficulty rating of 3 out of 5.
Today's puzzle, once you find the pattern, is surprisingly straightforward considering the rating. Honestly, any of the sets could be slotted in any color.
I started with the crossword-ese thought of aping when I saw mirror selfie, and copy editor. That got me to echo park. I knew I was on the right track, but it did take a second to click with quote unquote.
The spells got my eye next, which is why I pursued hex key, curse word and charm bracelet along with spell checker for the yellow set.
About here is when I saw the pattern and breezed through the next two sets.
In the last eight, I didn't click on the rivers, but I did with murder mystery and pack rat. That got me to pride rock and school days for names of animal groups.
Which left the river parts with bank teller, bed head, delta airlines, and mouth guard.
