{"slug": "today-s-nyt-connections-hints-answers-and-help-for-june-24-1109", "title": "Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 24, #1109", "summary": "The New York Times Connections puzzle for June 24, #1109, features groups themed around prog bands, classic wedding gifts, red characters, and rhyming compound words. Answers include Genesis, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Rush, china, luggage, money, toaster, Clifford, Deadpool, Kool-Aid Man, Mr. Krabs, chick flick, helter skelter, Humpty Dumpty, and mumbo jumbo.", "body_md": "Looking for the **most recent** Connections answers? [Click here for today's Connections hints](https://www.cnet.com/feature/daily-puzzle-answers/), as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.\n\nToday's NYT [Connections puzzle](https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections) is just jammed full of creative, lively words. Fans of a certain music genre and of colorful fictional characters will ace this one. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers.\n\n[The Times has a Connections Bot](https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/connections-bot-brings-ai-to-the-new-york-times-games-section/), like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section [can now nerd out by following their progress](https://www.nytco.com/press/introducing-connections-stats-and-streaks/), including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.\n\n**Read more:** [Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time](https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/nyt-connections-seven-hints-tricks-and-tips-for-winning-every-game/)\n\n## Hints for today's Connections groups\n\nHere are four hints for the groupings in today's Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.\n\n**Yellow group hint**: Rock on.\n\n**Green group hint**: Here comes the bride.\n\n**Blue group hint**: Elmo is another one.\n\n**Purple group hint**: Boob tube might also fit.\n\n## Answers for today's Connections groups\n\n**Yellow group**: Prog bands\n\n**Green group**: Classic wedding gifts\n\n**Blue group**: Red characters\n\n**Purple group**: Rhyming compound words\n\n**Read more:** [Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words](https://www.cnet.com/tech/wordle-player-cheat-sheet-here-are-the-most-popular-letters-used-in-the-english-language/)\n\n## What are today's Connections answers?\n\n### The yellow words in today's Connections\n\nThe theme is prog bands. The four answers are Genesis, King Crimson, Pink Floyd and Rush.\n\n### The green words in today's Connections\n\nThe theme is classic wedding gifts. The four answers are china, luggage, money and toaster.\n\n### The blue words in today's Connections\n\nThe theme is red characters. The four answers are Clifford, Deadpool, Kool-Aid Man and Mr. Krabs.\n\n### The purple words in today's Connections\n\nThe theme is rhyming compound words. The four answers are chick flick, helter skelter, Humpty Dumpty and mumbo jumbo.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/today-s-nyt-connections-hints-answers-and-help-for-june-24-1109", "canonical_source": "https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/todays-nyt-connections-hints-answers-and-help-for-june-24-1109/", "published_at": "2026-06-23 20:03:08+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-24 01:20:27.083451+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["New York Times", "CNET", "Genesis", "King Crimson", "Pink Floyd", "Rush", "Clifford", "Deadpool"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/today-s-nyt-connections-hints-answers-and-help-for-june-24-1109", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/today-s-nyt-connections-hints-answers-and-help-for-june-24-1109.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/today-s-nyt-connections-hints-answers-and-help-for-june-24-1109.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/today-s-nyt-connections-hints-answers-and-help-for-june-24-1109.jsonld"}}