NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, June 1 (game #1086)

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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, May 31 (game #1085).

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 #1086) – today’s words

NYT Connections hints for game 1086 on a purple background — (Image credit: New York Times)

Today’s NYT Connections words are…

WEDDING
MENAGERIE
ONION
NEWSPAPER
CEILING
SLIPPERS
TREE
CAT
DOOR
TATTOO
PIPE
WALL
KEY
WINDOW
STREETCAR
ROBE

NYT Connections today (game #1086) – hint #1 – group hints

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

YELLOW: Elements of a space
GREEN: Armchair inactivity
BLUE: Partial names of famous plays
PURPLE: Add a word that rhymes with “thing”

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…

NYT Connections today (game #1086) – hint #2 – group answers

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

YELLOW: ROOM FEATURES
GREEN: OLD-TIMEY LOUNGING ACCESSORIES
BLUE: SUBJECTS IN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS TITLES
PURPLE: ____RING

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

NYT Connections today (game #1086) – the answers

NYT Connections answers for game 1086 on a purple background — (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today’s Connections, game #1086, are…

YELLOW: ROOM FEATURES CEILING, DOOR, WALL, WINDOW
GREEN: OLD-TIMEY LOUNGING ACCESSORIES NEWSPAPER, PIPE, ROBE, SLIPPERS
BLUE: SUBJECTS IN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS TITLES CAT, MENAGERIE, STREETCAR, TATTOO
PURPLE: ____RING KEY, ONION, TREE, WEDDING

My rating: Hard
My score: 2 mistakes

Being somewhat old-timey and longing to spend more time lounging I should have gotten OLD-TIMEY LOUNGING ACCESSORIES easier, but my mistake was to include CAT instead of ROBE, as whenever I get to do any lounging it invariably involves the addition of a cat on a lap.

Next, knowing the titles of three Tennessee Williams plays has rarely come in handy but was invaluable today, although it would have been better if I knew four, so alongside CAT, MENAGERIE and STREETCAR I initially had DOOR instead of TATTOO.

The four plays in question are Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Rose Tattoo, if you were wondering.

Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Sunday, May 31, game #1085)

YELLOW: THINGS THAT ARE YELLOW BUTTER, PIKACHU, RUBBER DUCK, SCHOOL BUS
GREEN: BILLIARDS TERMS BREAK, CUE, POCKET, RACK
BLUE: SLANG FOR A SAILOR JACK, SALT, SEA DOG, TAR
PURPLE: KINDS OF WOOD PLUS “S” SASH, SOAK, SPINE, STEAK

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.