Today's puzzle colors in a forest.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for June 26 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,111. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,110, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.
Alternatively, visit our how to play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.
What is Connections
Solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.
Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Today's Connection Grid and Words
- Tang
- Chip
- Board
- Pinky
- Dale
- Redo
- Splinter
- Nut
- Hollow
- Tree
- Gorge
- Bronzer
- Cracker
- Dell
- Log
- Pretzel
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Pantry
- 🟩 Green: Trees
- 🟦 Blue: Get low outside
- 🟪 Purple: Colorful
Today's Connections Group Hints
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Crunchy snack item
- 🟩 Green: Various amounts of wood
- 🟦 Blue: Areas of low ground
- 🟪 Purple: Colors plus a letter
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Today's Connections answers
The Connections answers on June 26 for puzzle #1,111 are way harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.8 out of 5.
- 🟨 Crunchy snack item: Chip, cracker, nut, pretzel
- 🟩 Various amounts of wood: Board, log, splinter, tree
- 🟦 Areas of low ground: Dale, dell, gorge, hollow
- 🟪 Colors plus a letter: Bronzer, pinky, redo, tang
Splinter was my way into today's puzzle as I looked for wood with log, splinter and board.
I've been reading The Hobbit with my son, where you get your fill of dales, dells, gorges and hollows, which is how I made this connection.
The yellow set of chip, cracker, nut and pretzel was obvious as a yellow group from the beginning so I saved it for last.
Instead, I put in bronzer, pinky, redo, and tang next without really seeing the color plus a letter connection.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Computer peripherals: Microphone, monitor, printer, trackpad
- 🟩 Tightly packed: Compact, compressed, dense, squashed
- 🟦 Hazardous elemental metals: Francium, lead, mercury, polonium
- 🟪 Starting with bird homophones: Cranium, croquette, ductile, hockey
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,110, which had a difficulty rating of 1 out of 5.
I ended up going down the line today, mostly because I didn't trust myself.
For example, I saw the elemental words pretty quickly but didn't place them because I thought it was too obvious. Which is why I started with the peripherals in microphone, printer, trackpad, and monitor.
Then I put together the crammed words of compact, compressed, dense and squashed.
I finally put the elements in with francium, lead, mercury and polonium.
Which left the birds of cranium (crane), croquette (crow), ductile (duck), and hockey (hawk).
