NYT Connections today hints and answers for Saturday, June 20 #1,105

Today's puzzle has a tricky yellow and musical purple, it's an interesting combo.

Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for June 20 below.

Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,105. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.

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Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,104, 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

• Champion
• New York
• Knicks
• Jumpin'
• Rocker
• Knapsack
• Beanbag
• Bolster
• Jackknife
• Support
• Knock-Knock
• Louie
• Back
• Stool
• Rebel
• Recliner

We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:

• 🟨 Yellow: Strike out
• 🟩 Green: Cheer for
• 🟦 Blue: Seats
• 🟪 Purple: Billboard

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: Featuring silent and pronounced "K"s
• 🟩 Green: Endorse
• 🟦 Blue: Kinds of chairs
• 🟪 Purple: Words repeated in hit song titles

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 20 for puzzle #1,105 are slightly harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.3 out of 5.

• 🟨 Featuring silent and pronounced "K"s: Jackknife, knapsack, knicks, knock-knock
• 🟩 Endorse: Back, bolster, champion, support
• 🟦 Kinds of chairs: Beanbag, recliner, rocker, stool
• 🟪 Words repeated in hit song titles: Jumpin', louie, new york, rebel

I see what you did there New York Times. Congrats to your team; perhaps one day my Blazers will return to the mountaintop — probably not with the current owner, but what can you do?

Anyway, I started with the seats because after the Knicks bit, that's what I saw. So I grabbed beanbag, rocker, recliner and stool.

A different song got me onto the doubles songs. I thought of Billy Idol's Rebel Yell first before David Bowie's Rebel Rebel came to mind. That clicked the set for me with Louie Louie, and I was able to hunt down New York New York and Jumpin' Jumpin'. Though I suppose that apostrophe makes Jumpin stick out, so some may get the purple earlier.

From there, champion, support, bolster, and back were next.

Which left the interesting silent and said Ks list of jackknife, knapsack, Knicks and knock-knock.

Yesterday's Connections answers

• 🟨 Fitness class types: Aerobics, barre, bootcamp, pilates
• 🟩 Demeanor: Attitude, bearing, carriage, presence
• 🟦 Peace activists: Gandhi, king, mandela, tutu
• 🟪 Tools minus last two letters: Hamm, jigs, plie, wren

Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,104, which had a difficulty rating of 2.3 out of 5.

I wanted to solve spinderella, so that's where I started. It helps that time machine and fortune cookie were right next door, which got me to the magazines. It took a second to commit to people person because a part of me debated whether that one was in an adjectives set.

Mostly because of the umlaut, I hopped on Fur Elise next and quickly found the other songs in chopsticks, heart and soul and the entertainer though I didn't know that all four would be piano 101 songs.

The umami flavor fell in a square in the middle of my board, which I saw, so I took it next with vegemite, soy sauce, miso paste and paremsan.

And that left aggregate words last with coincidentally, dim sum, teetotal, and viscount.