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Time of India
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
NYT Connections hints and answers for today (June 11, 2025)
NYT Connections is back with another thrilling word puzzle. The game continues to grow in popularity. Each day brings a new challenge for players to find hidden links among 16 seemingly unrelated words. Whether you are a seasoned player or a beginner, solving the puzzle can be both fun and tricky. This guide offers a quick overview of today's hints and answers to help you progress without spoiling the experience too soon. If you're stuck or just curious about today's puzzle solution, keep reading to find all the details you need to crack the grid for June 11, 2025. What is NYT Connections Connections is a daily puzzle game from The New York Times. It presents players with a 4x4 grid of 16 words. The challenge is to group these words into four sets of four based on a shared theme or category. These connections might be obvious or require some creative thinking. Categories can range from types of animals to famous characters or grammatical symbols. Only one correct solution exists for each puzzle and players must avoid making too many wrong guesses. It's a game that rewards observation and lateral thinking. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 임플란트, 지금 시작하세요 [자세히 보기] 임플란트 더 알아보기 Undo How to play NYT Connections To play Connections, look at the grid of 16 words and try to form four groups of four words that are related in some way. When you think you've found the correct group, select those four words and submit your answer. If it's correct, the group will disappear. If it's not, you lose one of your four chances. Some words may appear to belong in more than one group, so it's important to think carefully. The difficulty level increases across colour categories. Yellow is the easiest group, green and blue are intermediate, and purple is often the most challenging. The game resets every day at midnight with a new puzzle. Today's NYT Connections hints And here are some helpful hints for each group: Yellow group — Words related to bragging Green group — Things shaped like arcs Blue group — Common morning mascots for breakfast cereals Purple group — Symbols used in writing to mark references Today's Connections Answers Yellow group — boast: BLUSTER, CROW, SHOW OFF, STRUT Green group — arc-shaped things: BANANA, EYEBROW, FLIGHT PATH, RAINBOW Blue group — cereal mascots: COUNT, ELVES, LEPRECHAUN, ROOSTER Purple group — ways to denote a citation: ASTERISK, DAGGER, NUMBER, PARENS Explanation of the answers The yellow group focused on forms of boasting. Words like BLUSTER, CROW, SHOW OFF, and STRUT all describe actions that suggest pride or arrogance. The green group was about curved shapes. BANANA, EYEBROW, FLIGHT PATH, and RAINBOW are all objects or concepts that curve in an arc. The blue group included cereal mascots. COUNT refers to Count Chocula, ELVES are from Rice Krispies, LEPRECHAUN represents Lucky Charms, and ROOSTER is the Kellogg's Corn Flakes mascot. The purple group dealt with citation symbols. ASTERISK, DAGGER, NUMBER, and PARENS (short for parentheses) are all used to reference footnotes or additional information in text. Today's Connections puzzle was a mix of straightforward and clever groupings. The cereal mascots may have stumped some players, but the citation symbols provided a good challenge as well. Whether you solved it without a mistake or needed a little help, the game remains a fun way to sharpen your thinking. Be sure to come back tomorrow for the next puzzle. And remember — a small hint can go a long way. AI Masterclass for Students. Upskill Young Ones Today!– Join Now
Yahoo
17-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
WV lawmakers must fulfill constitutional mandate to provide thorough system of free schools
Lockers in a Kanawha County school in West Virginia. (Lexi Browning | West Virginia Watch) As an educator and parent, I have seen firsthand the power of public schools to help our students achieve brighter futures and bring our communities together. But I have also watched the underfunding and politicization of public education in West Virginia over the past decade and the consequences for our state's students. While it is certainly true that schools and funding must adapt to meet the changing needs of students and communities, I've never seen any program improve by starving it of funding. Unless policymakers and the public take action now to re-envision school funding and protect community schools, more closures will be on the horizon. The vast majority of children in West Virginia receive and will continue to receive their education through the public school system, which needs to be equipped and well-resourced to serve them well. School staff work hard every day to meet their students' needs, but the diversion of public taxpayer dollars to school vouchers (Hope Scholarship), the expansion of charter schools, population decline and deep revenue losses from tax cuts are exacerbating long-existing challenges. Nowhere is this situation more dire than in rural and low-income areas, where county school boards and communities are having to make impossible decisions with limited funding increasingly across the state. According to KIDS COUNT data, in West Virginia one in five children are food insecure and 25% live in poverty. In the counties I've taught in, like Mingo and Roane, those percentages rise to 37% of kids living in poverty and one in three being food insecure. Our schools are not just teaching reading and math — they are providing essential services to these kids like breakfast and lunch, and some even offer health clinics. Public schools offer a gathering place for athletic events, dance recitals, and more. And notably, they are often among the largest employers and economic drivers within their communities. That means the result of a school closure is not just long bus rides for students—it is also the loss of the heart of the community and one of the most important factors families look at when considering moving to this state. Legislators and the public must consider whether the expansion of the Hope Scholarship vouchers program is fiscally responsible at a time when our public schools are already under-resourced. Should we spend public tax money on a program that has practically no reporting requirements and that allows parents of any income level the option to purchase private music lessons or Clay Center memberships as public schools across the state are closing their doors, reducing extracurricular options, and laying off arts and music teachers, counselors, nurses, and custodians? Should students be forced to sit on buses for over 3 hours a day to simply access their education? If we do have the capacity to increase funding for education, wouldn't it be better spent supporting the public school districts that are struggling to keep their community schools staffed and open — public schools that almost 90% of the families in West Virginia have selected as their school choice? This is a critical moment for state lawmakers to fulfill their constitutional mandate: 'the Legislature shall provide, by general law, for a thorough and efficient system of free schools.' To me and to most West Virginia families, that means investing in community schools and giving all students the opportunity to receive a quality education — especially those who live in rural areas with poor internet, have special education needs, live in poverty or that have other circumstances that make public school their only viable 'choice.' I hope that our legislators will halt any plans to expand the Hope Scholarship voucher program, which is expected to balloon to over $100 million in costs this coming year and then up to $300 million the following year. I urge them to strengthen reporting requirements for this program so taxpayers can see who is benefitting, as well as direct available funding into the public school system that so many students and families in the Mountain State rely upon. Not adequately funding public schools is simply shirking responsibility and giving away $5,000 coupons does not abdicate West Virginia from its constitutional responsibility. We are approaching a point of no return — if state legislators do nothing, there will be an even greater wave of school closures over the next one to two years. And once a school closes, it rarely reopens. I fear what that means for the future of our state's students. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
