Game #1093 served a tidy mix of geography, slang and a clever movie-theme curveball that separated quick solvers from the rest. If you played today, you probably had one obvious cluster, one cheeky one, and one that made you stare at DELTA and OMEGA for a long minute.
Below you’ll find the full board, spoiler-light nudges, the official group titles and a short expert take on where players tripped up — and why.
SPOILER WARNING: From here on out we list the groups and answers for NYT Connections Game #1093 (2026-06-08). If you haven’t finished and want to keep the surprises, stop now.
Today’s NYT Connections words
Sixteen words were on the board; here they are in the order presented.
- INVISIBLE | MOHAWK | ISLAND | PUNCH
- VOLLEYBALL | ELEPHANT | COCONUT | DELTA
- PENINSULA | PATE | SEA URCHIN | MELON
- OMEGA | ISTHMUS | DOME | RUNNING
Today’s NYT Connections hints
One-line, spoiler-light nudges for each group.
- 🟡 Yellow: Think geographical terms that describe land in relation to water.
- 🟢 Green: Four casual words people use to refer to someone’s head.
- 🔵 Blue: Items or things that are commonly described as having spikes or that can be spiked.
- 🟣 Purple: Titles completed by a single three-letter word to form movie names.
Today’s NYT Connections group titles
Here are the official group titles for Game #1093.
- 🟡 Yellow: LANDFORMS BY WATER
- 🟢 Green: SLANG FOR HEAD
- 🔵 Blue: THINGS THAT CAN BE SPIKED
- 🟣 Purple: “”THE ___ MAN” MOVIES”
What are today’s NYT Connections answers?
The solved groups and their members.
- 🟡 Yellow (LANDFORMS BY WATER): DELTA, ISLAND, ISTHMUS, PENINSULA
- 🟢 Green (SLANG FOR HEAD): COCONUT, DOME, MELON, PATE
- 🔵 Blue (THINGS THAT CAN BE SPIKED): MOHAWK, PUNCH, SEA URCHIN, VOLLEYBALL
- 🟣 Purple (“”THE ___ MAN” MOVIES”): ELEPHANT, INVISIBLE, OMEGA, RUNNING
Today’s Connections — expert analysis
The natural entry point was the yellow set: DELTA, ISLAND, ISTHMUS and PENINSULA are textbook landforms tied to water, and they stand out immediately. That cluster gave many players the confidence to lock in a first group and reduce the board quickly.
The toughest set was the purple movie group. The theme depends on inserting the same three-letter word into familiar movie titles, and the members — ELEPHANT, INVISIBLE, OMEGA, RUNNING — are deceptively ordinary when seen alone. Two strong overlap traps made this board spicy: DELTA is both a landform and a Greek letter, which tempts you to pair it with OMEGA, and head-related words like DOME and MOHAWK can be misallocated (DOME belongs with other slang terms for head, while MOHAWK is part of the “spiked” set). PUNCH was another decoy — it’s both an action/impact and a drink that can be spiked — but here it belonged with MOHAWK, SEA URCHIN and VOLLEYBALL for “can be spiked.” Overall difficulty: a notch above average thanks to those overlaps and the movie-format trick, with Purple proving the real splitter.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Game #1092)
For reference, here are yesterday’s groups and solutions from Game #1092.
- 🟡 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
What is NYT Connections?
Connections is a daily word-grouping puzzle from the New York Times where players sort sixteen words into four themed groups of four. The challenge lies in spotting patterns, dealing with ambiguous words, and avoiding clever decoys.
How to play NYT Connections
- Scan the sixteen words and try to spot an obvious group of four that share a theme.
- Select four words you think form a group — correct selections lock in; incorrect ones cost you the board.
- Repeat until all four groups are found, or until you run out of attempts.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What time does a new NYT Connections puzzle unlock?
A brand-new puzzle drops every single night at midnight local time across your specific region’s time zone on NYT Connection official site.
Why do some words seem to fit into two different groups?
The puzzle is specifically designed to include “decoys” or overlapping vocabulary. Always look for a backup configuration of words before locking in an early guess to protect your attempt counter.
Can I review answers to older puzzles?
Yes! If you are tracking performance over time or reviewing a grid you missed over the weekend, you can check out our dedicated NYT Connections Past Archive to look over historical solutions.
