If today’s New York Times Connections grid has you burning through your mistakes, you are not alone. Puzzle #1109 features some heavy misdirection, with several words seemingly fitting into different themes before pulling the rug out from under you.
Below are strategic, spoiler-free hints to help you group today’s words on your own, followed by the exact categories and answers at the bottom of the page.
Today’s Connections Strategy & Commentary
Watch out for the red herrings today. At first glance, words like Cranium and Croquette look like an obvious match for a medical or food theme, but committing to that group early will cost you lives. We recommend looking closely at definitions, uses, and even how words sound rather than just their meanings, as this will make sorting the full set much easier to manage.
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Connections Hints Today: Category Clues
If you just need a nudge to get your brain moving in the right direction, here are clues for the four color-coded groups:
- 🟨 Yellow Group Hint (Easiest): Words that relate to equipment used with computers
- 🟩 Green Group Hint (Medium): These words describe something pressed closely together or occupying little space
- 🟦 Blue Group Hint (Hard): These are chemical elements that pose health or safety risks
- 🟪 Purple Group Hint (Tricky): Each word sounds like a type of bird when spoken aloud
Stuck on one word? If you have words like Cranium or Croquette, try looking at them phonetically rather than by their literal definition. It might belong to the trickier Purple group today!
NYT Connections Answers Today: Thursday, June 25, 2026
⚠️Spoiler Warning: Beyond this point lies the full solution for Puzzle #1109. If you still want to solve the grid yourself using the clues above, do not scroll down.
Here are the completed categories and groupings for today’s puzzle:
🟨 Yellow Category: Computer Peripherals
- Monitor
- Microphone
- Printer
- Trackpad
🟩 Green Category: Tightly Packed
- Compact
- Dense
- Squashed
- Compressed
🟦 Blue Category: Hazardous Elemental Metals
- Francium
- Mercury
- Lead
- Polonium
🟪 Purple Category: Starting With Bird Homophones
- Cranium
- Croquette
- Hockey
- Ductile
Previous Answer
NYT Connections Answer for June 24, 2026 (Puzzle #1108): Prog Bands / Classic Wedding Gifts / Red Characters / Rhyming Compound Words
Join the Discussion
Did today’s puzzle give you a perfect “Reverse Rainbow” (solving Purple to Yellow), or did the red herrings wipe out your board?
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