Today’s Connections puzzle may seem tricky at first glance, but it doesn’t need a lot of thinking to solve. Once you get the first category, the pieces will fall into place. If you’ve been struggling to find a breakthrough, we’re here to help. We’ll get you started with some general hints to help you arrive at the answers on your own. If that doesn’t help, we’ll give you one word from each category. This will be followed by the revelation of the official themes. Finally, we’ll give you the answer key. So, without further ado, here are all the hints, clues, and answers to the NYT Connections today (#1,093, June 8, 2026).
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What is Connections?
After Wordle, Connections is the New York Times’ most popular word game. The rules are simple. You need to find words with a common theme and group them into 4 groups of 4. The 16-word grid is designed with an increasing level of difficulty. The Yellow group is the easiest to spot, followed by Green, Blue, and Purple. The misdirects and red herrings can trip you up, but they also make the puzzle more fun. You can play the puzzle in the NYT Games app or on the NYT website.
Some tips to solve Connections
Look for the obvious patterns: Not every category in the puzzle is confusing. The Yellow and Green category words are relatively easy to spot. However, if something seems too obvious, it could be a red herring. Typically, the first two categories comprise verbs and adjectives. The misdirects are often nouns.
Double-check your submissions: ‘Do not overthink’ is usually a good tip for solving most puzzles, but it doesn’t really apply to Connections. Before submitting a set of words, you should always check whether they fit somewhere else too.
Hit a dead end? Use the shuffle button: The shuffle button at the bottom of the grid exists for a reason. Placing the words in different positions can spark new connections. Think of it as a mental refresh. New patterns will emerge, and you may be able to find a breakthrough.
Tackle the Purple category with extra caution: The Connections team is known to serve up the toughest and most unexpected words for the Purple category. Here are some of the common tropes that you should look out for:
- Homophones (For example: ‘Where’, ‘Wear’, ‘Ware’, and ‘Weir’)
- Words within words (For example: ‘Slip’, ‘Hear’, ‘Keyes’, and ‘Undiagnosed’ could be ‘Words containing parts of the face’)
- Words minus a letter (For example: ‘Anther’, ‘Easel’, ‘Hark’, and ‘Lama’ could be ‘Animals minus starting letter’)
- Words preceded or followed by another word (For example: ‘Face’, ‘Sports’, ‘Note’, and ‘Year’ could be ‘____ Book’)
Here’s your grid for today
- INVISIBLE
- MOHAWK
- ISLAND
- PUNCH
- VOLLEYBALL
- ELEPHANT
- COCONUT
- DELTA
- PENINSULA
- PATE
- SEA URCHIN
- MELON
- OMEGA
- ISTHUMUS
- DOME
- RUNNING
Hints for NYT Connections (#1,093) June 8, 2026
Let’s get you started with some general, spoiler-free hints.
- 🟡Yellow Group: Body of land surrounded by water.
- 🟢Green Group: Noggin.
- 🔵Blue Group: These unrelated things have one verb in common.
- 🟣Purple Group: Movie titles ending in a common word.
One Word Per Category (Contains Spoilers)
Can’t seem to find an in? We’ll give you one word from each category.
- 🟡Yellow Group: Delta.
- 🟢Green Group: Coconut.
- 🔵Blue Group: Mohawk.
- 🟣Purple Group: Elephant.
List of Themes (Major Spoilers)
Maybe getting to know the common themes among the words will help you spot them faster. Here are all the categories for today.
- 🟡Yellow Group: Landforms By Water.
- 🟢Green Group: Slang For Head.
- 🔵Blue Group: Things That Can Be Spiked.
- 🟣Purple Group: “The ___ Man” Movies.
Answers to NYT Connections (#1,093) Today (June 8, 2026)
Close to waving the white flag? Fine, we’ll give you the answers.
- 🟡Yellow Group: Delta, Island, Isthmus, Peninsula. (Landforms By Water)
A delta is a landform created by the sediments carried by a water body. An island is surrounded by water on all sides, an isthmus is surrounded on two sides, while a peninsula is surrounded on three sides.
- 🟢Green Group: Coconut, Dome, Melon, Pate. (Slang For Head)
This one is pretty self-explanatory. All of these words are used to refer to one’s head in a colloquial manner.
- 🔵Blue Group: Mohawk, Punch, Sea Urchin, Volleyball. (Things That Can Be Spiked)
All of the words in this category are completely unrelated, except that they can all be ‘spiked’ in different ways. You can spike your hair into a mohawk using hair spray or hair gel. A bowl of punch can be spiked by adding alcohol. A sea urchin has spikes that get deployed when it feels threatened. Finally, in volleyball, a ‘spike’ is a move where a player hits the ball with an overhead arm swing.
- 🟣Purple Group: Elephant, Invisible, Omega, Running. (“The ___ Man” Movies.)
The Elephant Man (1980), The Invisible Man (2020), The Omega Man (1971), and The Running Man (1987/2025).
Answers to yesterday’s puzzle (#1,092, June 7, 2026)
- 🟡Yellow Group: Gauzy, Gossamer, Sheer, Thin. (Translucent, As Fabric)
- 🟢Green Group: Express, State, Utter, Voice. (Speak)
- 🔵Blue Group: Gut, Level, Total, Trash. (Demolish)
- 🟣Purple Group: Core, Pop, Step, Wave. (Music Genre Suffixes)
Answers to NYT Connections #1,091 (June 6, 2026)
- 🟡Yellow Group: Pole, Post, Shaft, Stake. (Pillar)
- 🟢Green Group: Betray, Display, Express, Register. (Indicate, As Emotions)
- 🔵Blue Group: Basilisk, Dragon, Monitor, Skink. (Kinds Of Lizards)
- 🟣Purple Group: Dinner, Drafting, Round, Times. (___ Table)
Answers to NYT Connections #1,090 (June 5, 2026)
- 🟡Yellow Group: Breadcrumb, Forest, Oven, Witch. (Associated with Hansel and Gretel)
- 🟢Green Group: Cluster, Flake, Loop, Puff. (Bit of Cereal)
- 🔵Blue Group: Disclosure, Ghost, Striptease, The Substance. (Demi Moore Movies)
- 🟣Purple Group: Incubus, Oscar, Quatrain, Situationship. (Ending in Methods of Transportation)
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How did other solvers do today?
NYT’s early testers rated today’s Connection puzzle 2.8 out of 5. This puts it in the medium difficulty level. Let us know how you fared in the comments!
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