Today’s NYT Connections Hints And Answers For Wednesday, June 10 (#1.095)

Find the links between the words to win today's game of Connections.

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Each day’s game of NYT Connections goes live at midnight local time. Before today’s NYT Connections hints, here’s what you missed on Tuesday:

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It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: it’s time for another round of Connections!

I did have something in mind I wanted to mention in today’s intro. Unfortunately, it fluttered out of my brain before I sat down to write.

That’s one of the most annoying things in the world, when you have an idea you quite liked, but it faded before you could do anything about it. Something that’s on the tip of your tongue, but you can’t quite crystallize it.

I’m sure I’ll remember whatever it was a week or so from now when I suddenly wake up at 4AM. Because that’s how things work in this life.

Before we start, I want to highlight the rad community we have on Discord, where we chat about Connections, the rest of the NYT games and all kinds of other stuff. It’s a lovely group of folks. You’re more than welcome to join us.

Also, my weekend editions of this column are available over on my newsletter, Pastimes. If you enjoy the intros and recommendations in my Connections columns, I publish longer pieces along similar lines on Pastimes as well. I think you’d dig them.

Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, June 10 are coming right up. Let’s get rolling!

NYT Connections – How To Play

Connections is a free New York Times daily word game that you can play on the NYT’s website or Games app. If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the Connections archive, which includes every previous game.

Connections presents you with a grid of 16 words (sometimes phrases, symbols or numbers). The aim is to arrange them into four groups of four. You don’t know how they hit together or what the category for each group is: that’s what you have to figure out.

There’s only one correct solution and there are often red herrings. You can guess incorrectly three times. A fourth wrong guess, and it’s game over.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to deduce, followed by blue, green and purple. Often, the yellow and green groups have synonyms, the blues have cultural references and the purples have some kind of wordplay involved. But this is not a hard and fast rule. Be ready for curveballs – part of the fun of Connections is in how the NYT shakes things up to keep you on your toes.

As with Wordle and similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends using an emoji-based grid. The game tracks your progress too.

Many players take pride in having long win streaks or getting a reverse rainbow – correctly guessing the purple, blue, green and yellow groups in that order with no mistakes. That adds an extra little challenge.

Today’s NYT Connections Word List

Scroll slowly! I’ll first give you a list of today’s words, then a hint for each category. After that, I’ll reveal one word that goes into each group. Then I’ll tell you the category names, followed by the full answers.

Today’s 16 words are...

• STAGE
• PAGE
• FASHION
• FILM
• METHOD
• SKIN
• CHARACTER
• WINGS
• PIT
• CRUST
• WORD
• WAY
• LINE
• CATWALK
• SCUM
• MANNER

Today’s NYT Connections Hints

And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:

• 🟨 Yellow group — that’s one approach
• 🟩 Green group — slimy surface, perhaps
• 🟦 Blue group — seen where legs and borders often provide the framing
• 🟪 Purple group — they all add up to tell a story

NYT Connections – One Answer Per Group

Need some extra help?

Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.

Let’s take a look at one answer for each group.

Here we go…

• 🟨 Yellow group — MANNER
• 🟩 Green group — SCUM
• 🟦 Blue group — PIT
• 🟪 Purple group — WORD

Today’s NYT Connections Categories

Today’s Connections groups are...

• 🟨 Yellow group — technique
• 🟩 Green group — gross things that form on wet surfaces
• 🟦 Blue group — parts of a theater
• 🟪 Purple group — counted in document word counts

Today’s NYT Connections Answers

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.

This is your last chance to look away.

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections answers are...

FASHION almost tripped me up, but I got the blues first (legs and borders are curtains at the sides and top of the stage). That meant FASHION had to go with the rest of the yellows.

The purples then jumped out at me, leaving the greens to win my 465th game in a row.

How did you get on this time? Here's my grid:

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Today’s NYT Connections Red Herring

I don’t have quite have time to spell everything out today, so I don’t have a separate NYT Connections Answers Explained column for you this time. However, I did spot a notable red herring.

METHOD, FILM, STAGE and CHARACTER can all precede "actor."

That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for tomorrow’s game if you need them.

P.S. My favorite band put out a new song last week. It’s a collab with The Offspring. “Let The Good Times Roll” is a very fun pop-metal thing. I was surprised to hear some reggaeton/dancehall rhythms on the track and and there are a couple of unexpected cameos in the video. This should be the song of the summer:

Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!

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