Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers for June 6 #1091

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Today’s NYT Connections puzzle features some fun categories. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.

The Times has a Connections Bot, 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, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.

Read more: Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time

Hints for today’s Connections groups

Here 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.

Yellow group hint: An upright support structure.

Green group hint: Your face gives it away.

Blue group hint: Scaly reptiles.

Purple group hint: Not a chair.

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow group: Pillar.

Green group: Indicate, as emotions.

Blue group: Kinds of lizards.

Purple group: ____ table.

Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words

What are today’s Connections answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is pillar. The four answers are pole, post, shaft and stake.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is indicate, as emotions. The four answers are betray, display, express and register.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is kinds of lizards. The four answers are basilisk, dragon, monitor and skink.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is ____ table. The four answers are dinner, drafting, round and times.

Toughest Connections puzzles

We’ve made a note of some of the toughest Connections puzzles so far. Maybe they’ll help you see patterns in future puzzles.

#5: Included “things you can set,” such as mood, record, table and volleyball.

#4: Included “one in a dozen,” such as egg, juror, month and rose.

#3: Included “streets on screen,” such as Elm, Fear, Jump and Sesame.

#2: Included “power ___” such as nap, plant, Ranger and trip.

#1: Included “things that can run,” such as candidate, faucet, mascara and nose.