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Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is full of words ending with -ing, but beyond that, they have different things in common. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.

The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.

Read more: Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time

Hints for today’s Connections groups

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group hint: Nestling.

Green group hint: Talking behind someone’s back.

Blue group hint: Sharp objects are involved.

Purple group hint: Words begin with similar words.

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow group: Getting cozy.

Green group: Gossiping.

Blue group: Engaging in an activity with pins or needles.

Purple group: Starting with titles.

Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words

What are today’s Connections answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is getting cozy. The four answers are cuddling, hugging, snuggling and spooning.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is gossiping. The four answers are buzzing, dishing, spilling and whispering.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is engaging in an activity with pins or needles. The four answers are acupuncturing, bowling, sewing and wrestling.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is starting with titles. The four answers are doctoring, lording, missing and siring.

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We’re six months from Christmas, but today’s Wordle puzzle answer relates to a Christmas carol. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on.

Today’s Wordle hints

Before we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some hints. If you don’t want a spoiler, look away now.

Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats

Today’s Wordle answer has no repeated letters.

Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels

There are two vowels in today’s Wordle answer.

Wordle hint No. 3: First letter

Today’s Wordle answer begins with V.

Wordle hint No. 4: Merry Christmas!

Today’s Wordle answer is the name of one of Santa’s reindeer.

Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning

Today’s Wordle answer can refer to a female fox.

TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER

Today’s Wordle answer is VIXEN.

Yesterday’s Wordle answer

Yesterday’s Wordle answer, June 11,  No. 1453 was PLAID.

Recent Wordle answers

June 7, No. 1449: REUSE

June 8, No. 1450: LEASE

June 9, No. 1451: BOARD

June 10, No. 1452: TAFFY

At WWDC 2025 on Monday, Apple announced Games, a streamlined app store and unified library for gamers using multiple Apple devices — showing a greater commitment to the video game industry than ever before.

The App Store won’t be rendered useless, since you’ll still need to access it for nongaming app downloads. But the old Game Center app, which provided leaderboards and social features to mobile gamers (and has long been relegated to a deep, dark corner of the iPhone’s Settings menus), will finally be reaching a point of obsolescence.

Once it launches later this year, the Games app will be preinstalled on all new Apple devices. The hub will allow gamers who are deeply embedded in Apple’s product ecosystem to launch their favorite titles from their mobile devices, Macs and smart TVs.

The app provides multiple tabs to manage your gaming experience on Apple devices. The streamlined interface includes Home, Apple Arcade, Library and Play Together tabs, as well as a search feature that will allow you to delve into a dedicated game storefront.

The Games app’s Home tab allows gamers to quickly check out new events and updates for the mobile games they frequently play, while the Library tab lets users scroll through any game they’ve ever downloaded from the App Store.

The new app will also serve as a hub for Apple’s other recent endeavor in the gaming space, Apple Arcade. This curated gaming subscription service launched in September 2019 and allows subscribers to download and play hundreds of games handpicked by Apple employees. The Apple Arcade includes some of the biggest indie successes and retro gaming ports, as well as classic fan-favorites from the App Store with some additional bells and whistles.

The Games app is a hybrid gaming app store and social hub, making it much more front and center than the Game Center application. Game Center functionality has long been buried within Apple’s mobile device settings, but it’s possible that this new hub fares better now that Apple has built out a scaffolding of mobile gaming infrastructure with Apple Arcade.

The Game Center leaderboards will be revamped and integrated into the new Games application through the Play Together feature. Within the Play Together tab, people will be able to keep up with what their friends are playing, compare achievements and high scores and invite other gamers to multiplayer games.

The announcement of the Games hub comes on the heels of Apple’s acquisition of RAC7, the developer of Apple Arcade hit Sneaky Sasquatch. An investment in first-party developers could signal that Apple wants to pursue some level of gaming exclusivity on its platforms.