NYT Connections for June 15, 2026, puzzle #1100, mixed familiar clue types with a few words that were easy to read too literally. The board looked approachable at first, but the real challenge was deciding when a word was being used in its everyday sense and when it belonged to a more specific category.
The biggest traps were legs, change, shower and the animal words. Dog, dragon, horse and snake looked like a simple animal set, while anemone, larkspur, monkshood and phlox could feel like four unrelated odd words unless you recognized them as flowers.
This was also puzzle #1100, and the blue group was especially satisfying once the exact connection clicked. After finishing, players can use the NYT Connections Bot to review their solve, check accuracy, and track stats such as streaks, win rate and perfect scores.
NYT Connections June 15 Hints
Yellow hint: Keep at it.
Sharper clue: These words describe endurance, continued progress or the ability to last.
Trap to avoid: Do not read legs only as a body part. Here it points to staying power, as in something having “legs.”
Green hint: Prep to party.
Sharper clue: These are things someone may do before going out for the evening.
Trap to avoid: Change can suggest money or transformation, and shower can suggest rain, but both are used here as getting-ready actions.
Blue hint: Year of the goat.
Sharper clue: Think of a repeating animal cycle used in astrology and calendars.
Trap to avoid: Do not stop at “animals.” The stronger connection is more specific than that.
Purple hint: Blooming buds.
Sharper clue: These are botanical names, including some that are less common in casual conversation.
Trap to avoid: Do not assume the strange-looking words are fantasy names, poisons, or random vocabulary. They all belong in a garden.
Common wrong paths: The board encouraged a few false starts. Dog, dragon, horse and snake could be grouped as animals, but Connections usually wants the cleanest category, and here that meant Chinese zodiac animals. Legs might tempt a body-related guess, but momentum, stamina and traction pull it toward endurance. The purple words were another trap because monkshood and phlox are not everyday flower names for many players.
Today’s NYT Connections Answers
Yellow Group
Green Group
Blue Group
Purple Group
Today’s board rewarded players who looked for the most precise version of a category. “Animals” was not enough for blue, “body parts” was wrong for yellow, and the purple set only opened up once the unusual vocabulary was treated as botanical rather than random.
For official gameplay and post-game analysis, players can visit the New York Times Connections page.
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