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Forbes
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
NYT ‘Connections' Hints For Wednesday, June 11: Clues And Answers For Today's Game
Each day's game of NYT Connections goes live at midnight local time. Before we get to today's Connections hints and answers, here are Tuesday's: It's Wednesday, and you know what that means: it's time for another round of Connections! For a while, I considered becoming one of those people who churns credit cards to earn tons of points toward things like vacations and other experiences. Figuring out whether all of that would be worth it for my lifestyle and circumstances would require me to do some calculations, and I just don't know if I have that in me. (I do words, not numbers!) I have a good credit score and a couple of cards for different purposes already. I've used credit card points I've earned exactly one time, to pay for a few nights in a budget hotel about six years ago. In the coming years, I'm hoping to use points to cover a business class fight or two, or at least the cost of an upgrade to that status. But I don't expect to become a full-on travel hacker. Flying is such a pain anyway, and I'd prefer to do it as little as possible. Before we begin, we have a great little community on Discord, where we chat about NYT Connections, the rest of the NYT games and all kinds of other stuff. Everyone who has joined has been lovely. It's a fun hangout spot, and you're more than welcome to hang out with us. Discord is also the best way to give me any feedback about the column, especially on the rare (or not-so-rare) occasions that I mess something up. I don't look at the comments or Twitter much. You can also read my weekend editions of this column at my new newsletter, Pastimes. Today's NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, June 11 are coming right up. Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT's website or Games app. You're presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part. There's only one solution for each puzzle, and you'll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them. Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay. Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you're incorrect, you'll lose a life. If you're close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you're one word away from getting it right, but you'll still need to figure out which one to swap. If you make four mistakes, it's game over. Let's make sure that doesn't happen with the help of some hints, and, if you're really struggling, today's Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it's easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats. If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication's Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed. Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find our hints Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query. Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today's Connections groups, I'll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them. Today's 16 words are... And the hints for today's Connections groups are: Need some extra help? Be warned: we're starting to get into spoiler territory. Let's take a look at one word for each group. Today's Connections word hints are… Today's Connections groups are... Spoiler alert! Don't scroll any further down the page until you're ready to find out today's Connections answers. This is your final warning! Today's Connections answers are... Right away, PARENS seemed likely to be a purple word. I just had that feeling, y'know. It matched well with ASTERISK and NUMBER, so I figured that there was some kind of typography thing going on. I remembered that DAGGER is a type of text mark as well – it looks like this †. So I had the purples sewn up. The yellows were pretty straightforward, thanks to SHOW OFF. As I thought about the shape of a FLIGHT PATH, which has to factor in the curvature of the Earth, the greens jumped out at me. That left the blues for the win. COUNT refers to Count Chocula, while Rice Krispies trio Snap, Crackle and Pop are ELVES. The LEPRECHAUN is the mascot of Lucky Charms, of course, and you may well see a ROOSTER on boxes of Kellogg's Corn Flakes. That perfect game extends my streak to 106 wins. Here's the grid: 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 That's all there is to it for today's Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Thursday's game if you need them. P.S. I'm gonna offer you something a little different as a recommendation today. I have seen way, way too many video game trailers over the last week as part of an annual series of showcases that all take place around the same time. This is the one I keep thinking about more than the others. I've never seen anything quite like it. I don't particularly care much for boxing games (or boxing in general), but I am very much looking forward to playing Felt That: Boxing as soon as I can. It's a boxing game with puppets, and the trailer is designed to mimic the plot of an underdog sports movie. I really enjoyed this clip. Sure, the humor is a little puerile, but I'll forgive that for a project that immediately stood out from the dozens of other video games that were revealed in recent days: Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and others! Call someone you love! Please follow my blog for more coverage of NYT Connections and other word games, and even some video game news, insights and analysis. It helps me out a lot! Sharing this column with other people who play Connections would be appreciated too. You can also read my weekend editions of this column at my new newsletter, Pastimes.
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Travel + Leisure
08-05-2025
- Business
- Travel + Leisure
This Travel CEO Says Last-minute Bookings Can Be the Cheapest Way to Fly—Here's Why
From travel hacking to flying during the shoulder season, there are endless ways to save a few extra dollars when planning a vacation. One surprising trend involves booking flights a passenger never intends to board—and it has helped some travelers save thousands. Known as 'skiplagging,' the concept involves booking a flight with a connection that is cheaper than flying to a destination directly. For example, a traveler looking to get from New York City to Miami may find it more affordable to book a flight from New York City to Chicago with a layover in Miami, and then not board the second leg of the ticket. As people randomly scoured airline websites for the best skiplagging deals, start-ups such like Skiplagged have grown to help travelers find these discounts. 'Last-minute bookings are on the rise, especially among younger travelers who are waiting for price drops instead of planning in advance,' Skiplagged CEO Aktarer Zaman told Travel + Leisure. Zaman said skiplagging's growing popularity is two-fold: the pain of increasing prices on airline tickets and consumers becoming savvier about how airlines price the fares. He added that travelers who set price alerts, use tools like VPN to obscure their location, and compare prices across sites likely find better deals than booking directly with the airline. Airlines don't like skiplagging because it exposes the way they overpriced routes. The reality is that if airlines wanted to eliminate this practice, they could simply adjust their pricing to make direct flights more affordable. — Aktarer Zaman, Skiplagged CEO The amount of money that can be saved using skiplagging varies. Skiplagged told T+L that passengers recently saved $10,716 on two international tickets from Tokyo to New York City. Within the U.S., another passenger saved $4,255 on two tickets from Houston to Seattle. While skiplagging may be a unique way to book a ticket, the practice has recently faced controversy. American Airlines filed a lawsuit against Skiplagged in 2024 over its business practices and copyright infringement, and a federal jury awarded the carrier $9.4 million. 'American is pleased the jury recognized that Skiplagged infringed its valuable trademarks and awarded $9.4 million in damages for copyright infringement,' a spokesperson for American Airlines told T+L. 'This was an important next step in protecting American's intellectual property and valuable brand.' For its part, Zaman said the practice democratizes airfare pricing and allows more people to travel. 'Airlines don't like skiplagging because it exposes the way they overpriced routes,' Zaman told T+L. 'The reality is that if airlines wanted to eliminate this practice, they could simply adjust their pricing to make direct flights more affordable. Instead, they've chosen to enforce rules that benefit their bottom line while leaving consumers with fewer options.' Airlines for America, an industry group representing carriers in the United States, did not respond to a request for comment at the time of publication. For travelers interested in trying the service, Skiplagged said that 99.7 percent of customers have flown without issues. However, there are limitations, like not being able to check bags to a final destination. Another potential concern is if a flight gets rebooked or switched to a direct route without the layover, passengers could find themselves on a different vacation altogether ... or may need to "skiplag" back home.
