NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, June 7 (game #1092)

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 #1092) - today's words

Today's NYT Connections words are…

• POP
• GUT
• SHEER
• STATE
• UTTER
• WAVE
• LEVEL
• STEP
• TOTAL
• EXPRESS
• THIN
• TRASH
• GOSSAMER
• CORE
• VOICE
• GAUZY

NYT Connections today (game #1092) - hint #1 - group hints

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

• YELLOW: See through material
• GREEN: Say something
• BLUE: Wreck it
• PURPLE: Partial sound categories

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 #1092) - hint #2 - group answers

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

• YELLOW: TRANSLUCENT, AS FABRIC
• GREEN: SPEAK
• BLUE: DEMOLISH
• PURPLE: MUSIC GENRE SUFFIXES

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

NYT Connections today (game #1092) - the answers

The answers to today's Connections, game #1092, are…

• YELLOW: TRANSLUCENT, AS FABRIC GAUZY, GOSSAMER, SHEER, THIN
• GREEN: SPEAK EXPRESS, STATE, UTTER, VOICE
• BLUE: DEMOLISH GUT, LEVEL, TOTAL, TRASH
• PURPLE: MUSIC GENRE SUFFIXES CORE, POP, STEP, WAVE

• My rating: Easy
• My score: Perfect

Of all the MUSIC GENRE SUFFIXES, I reckon WAVE is the most common — Synthwave, Darkwave, Coldwave, Chillwave, Emowave, Doomwave, Dreamwave, Retrowave, New Wave, Old Wave… you can basically put any word in front of it and invent a movement. CORE, on the other hand, is harder to attach.

Having said all this I was with a journalist the other day who claims that he invented the term Brit POP — a genre which originally put hundreds of other vaguely similar guitar bands under the same umbrella. Now it’s an era that is synonymous with just one act, Oasis. 

I went to see Oasis once in the early 2000s and myself and the other inebriated people I was with thought it would be amusing to just sing the name “Barry” to every single one of their lyrics. It must have been very annoying. Such an act today would get us thrown out of Great Britain for treason.

Anyway I digress…

Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Saturday, June 6, game #1091)

• YELLOW: PILLAR POLE, POST, SHAFT, STAKE
• GREEN: INDICATE, AS EMOTIONS BETRAY, DISPLAY, EXPRESS, REGISTER
• BLUE: KINDS OF LIZARDS BASILISK, DRAGON, MONITOR, SKINK
• PURPLE: _____TABLE DINNER, DRAFTING, ROUND, TIMES

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.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.