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Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 11, #731
Here are some hints — and the answers — for Connections for June 11, #731.

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Today’s NYT Connections puzzle has a pretty fun blue group, if you’ve ever chowed down on a bowl of sugary cereal. 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: Bragging.
Green group hint: All the same shape.
Blue group hint: Cap’n Crunch is one.
Purple group hint: College papers use these.
Answers for today’s Connections groups
Yellow group: Boast.
Green group: Arc-shaped things.
Blue group: Cereal mascots.
Purple group: Ways to denote a citation.
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 boast. The four answers are bluster, crow, show off and strut.
The green words in today’s Connections
The theme is arc-shaped things. The four answers are banana, eyebrow, flight path and rainbow.
The blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is cereal mascots. The four answers are count, elves, leprechaun and rooster.
The purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is ways to denote a citation. The four answers are asterisk, dagger, number and parens.
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Toy Story 5: The Big New Rival Is a Tablet
Woody, Buzz and Jessie will battle a tablet in Toy Story 5, which is scheduled to hit theaters just about a year from now.
Pixar is giving its old-school toys a decidedly modern antagonist: a tablet.
During the studio’s Friday showcase at Annecy’s International Animation Film Festival in France, Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter revealed that Toy Story 5’s villain is Lily Pad, a «sneaky» and «prickly» tablet that convinces 8-year-old Bonnie Anderson that friends and games on a device beat dusty ol’ toys in the closet.
The first concept art shows the frog-faced tablet looming over Buzz, Jessie and Bullseye like a touchscreen tyrant of the toy box. As you can probably foresee, this is a battle between analog toys and always-on tech. (You can stream Toy Story movies one through four on Disney Plus.)
The Lily Pad reveal topped a jam-packed Walt Disney Animation and Pixar showcase, where the company rolled out updated release dates, never-before-seen footage and a couple of all-new original films.
Toy Story 5: The enemy is tech
The premise of Toy Story 5 is that Anderson gets a Lily Pad for school chat and online games. But the tablet decides that Anderson’s toys, including Woody, Buzz and Jessie, are holding her back. Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack are all returning, while Ernie Hudson steps in as Combat Carl, honoring the late Carl Weathers.
Docter shared the opening scene of Toy Story 5, which shows a crate full of stranded Buzz Lightyears trying to escape a desert island. Toy Story 5 is set for release on June 19, 2026.
Pixar announced two new original films
Daniel Chong’s Hoppers, scheduled for March 6, 2026, turns an eco-heist into a critter-powered caper: 14-year-old Mabel uploads her mind into a robotic beaver to save her local pond from a highway project.
Gatto, slated for summer 2027, centers on Nero, a black cat in Venice who’s burned through most of his nine lives doing jobs for a feline mob boss. Now, questioning whether he’s wasted those lives, Nero stumbles into an unexpected friendship that could finally give him purpose. The film will be shot in a «living storybook» style, which is new to Pixar.
And we got to see new footage from Zootopia 2 and Elio
Jared Bush, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ chief creative officer and director-writer of Zootopia 2, showed some new footage and images from the anticipated sequel, which should come out in November. The audience also got to watch a 27-minute sizzle reel from Elio, the cosmic coming-of-age adventure, which opens June 20.
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Too Busy to Read? Google’s Audio Overviews Summarize Your Search Results Aloud
This new feature turns some Google queries into bite-size podcast clips so you can learn without reading.
The next time you wonder why school buses are yellow, you might not have to read a single word to get the answer. Google’s latest experimental feature can literally tell you the answer, in a tiny audio clip that loads right to your results page.
Launched Friday in Search Labs, Audio Overviews uses Google’s latest Gemini AI models to turn certain queries into 30- to 45-second, podcast-style explainers, complete with on-screen source links for fact-checking.
The move pushes Google’s AI Overviews beyond text, positioning Search for a semi-hands-free, voice-first future, while also raising more questions about what this means for publishers who rely on clicks.
How you can try out Audio Overviews right now
If you’re interested, you can try out Google’s Audio Overviews right now. Go to the Google Labs website, opt in to the Search Labs program if you’re not already signed up and toggle on Audio Overviews.
The next time you run a query, like «How do I stop apps from tracking my exact location on my iPhone,» Google might show you a button that says Generate Audio Overview, which you’ll have to scroll down a little to see.
You can then tap on the Audio Overview to process the clip, and then press play. You can speed up the audio, mute the clip and also rate it with a thumbs-up or thumbs-down to better train it.
Below the player, Google lists the web pages it drew from, so you can click through to fact-check the information or just dig deeper.
For those with visual impairments, this new feature offers a glimpse at what a voice-first Google might look like. But until Google expands language support and proves the summaries are dependable, consider this a nifty experiment for now, not a substitute for reading the full story.
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Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 14, #468
Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle No. 468 for June 14.
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Today’s NYT Strands puzzle honors Flag Day. If you need hints and answers, read on.
I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story.
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Hint for today’s Strands puzzle
Today’s Strands theme is: It’s a banner day.
If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: O say can you see.
Clue words to unlock in-game hints
Your goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle’s theme. If you’re stuck, find any words you can. Every time you find three words of four letters or more, Strands will reveal one of the theme words. These are the words I used to get those hints but any words of four or more letters that you find will work:
- TRIP, TRIPS, TROT, TROTS, RATS, LEND, SEND, TRAIL, RAIL, NAIL, RANT, STRIP
Answers for today’s Strands puzzle
These are the answers that tie in to the theme. The goal of the puzzle is to find them all, including the spangram, a theme word that reaches from one side of the puzzle to the other. When you have all of them (I originally thought there were always eight but learned that the number can vary), every letter on the board will be used. Here are the nonspangram answers:
- STAR, STRIPE, SHIELD, MOON, CROSS, TRIANGLE, CROWN
Today’s Strands spangram
Today’s Strands spangram is FLAGSYMBOL. To find it, start with the F that’s four letters to the right on the bottom row, and head up.
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