NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, June 22 (game #1107)

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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Sunday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, June 21 (game #1106).

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Connections today (game #1107) - today's words

Today's NYT Connections words are…

STRESSED

BOOMER

POWDER

HEAD

ALPHA

SOFT

X

LEAD

TIMES

PRIMARY

SILENT

.

SHORT

POPSICLE

BY

BANGKOK

NYT Connections today (game #1107) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

YELLOW: In charge

GREEN: Sum it up

BLUE: How things are said

PURPLE: Sounds loud

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…

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NYT Connections today (game #1107) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?

YELLOW: DOMINANT

GREEN: MULTIPLICATION INDICATORS

BLUE: PRONUNCIATION DESCRIPTORS

PURPLE: STARTING WITH EXPLOSIVE ONOMATOPOEIA

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #1107) - the answers

The answers to today's Connections, game #1107, are…

YELLOW: DOMINANT ALPHA, HEAD, LEAD, PRIMARY

GREEN: MULTIPLICATION INDICATORS BY, TIMES, X, •

BLUE: PRONUNCIATION DESCRIPTORS SHORT, SILENT, SOFT, STRESSED

PURPLE: STARTING WITH EXPLOSIVE ONOMATOPOEIA BANGKOK, BOOMER, POPSICLE, POWDER

My rating: Hard

My score: Perfect

This was one of those games of Connections where I made zero mistakes despite being uncertain about every group.

My big disappointment was that even though I managed to get the group containing the two unusual tiles, the reward was that it was only the green group. The big dot is an alternative to x and is used in algebra to avoid confusion. Not that I knew this at the time of course!

Meanwhile, having grown up watching Adam West’s Batman I am annoyed that I missed the Bang! Boom! And Pow! At the start of BANGKOK, BOOMER, and POWDER.

Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Sunday, June 21, game #1106)

YELLOW: PRECIPITATION DRIZZLE, RAIN, SHOWERS, SPRINKLES

GREEN: BOWLS OVER FLOORS, ROCKS, STUNS, SURPRISES

BLUE: NBC SITCOMS COMMUNITY, FRIENDS, SCRUBS, WINGS

PURPLE: STARTING WITH KINDS OF INSULTS BARBADOS, DIGGITY, DISSECT, SLAPDASH

What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

Johnny is a freelance pop culture journalist who has been writing about the internet, music, football and famous people since the iPhone was just a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye. Previously known by the pseudonym the Pop Detective, his journalistic career began making up stories about Madonna's addiction to sausage rolls (this is not true by the way). A man of few talents, his career is rich and various and includes the highs of interviewing Elton John and Blur; and the lows of interviewing Right Said Fred, appearing on a Channel 5 documentary about Peter Kay, and fact-checking the instruction manual for a German cooker. Somehow still affording to live in North London he is at his happiest riding his bicycle and shouting at pigeons.