NYT Connections hint (Fri, 5 Jun)

Looking for some Connections hints to help with today's puzzle on Friday, 5th June? It may be Friday once again, and you're probably tired after a long week at work. But you can't relax until you've done your Connections for the day!

If your brain has already shut down, though, we've got you covered with subtle hints and full answers so you don't have to worry about losing your streak.

How to play Connections

Connections is one of the most popular (and challenging) daily puzzle games published by the New York Times (owners of Wordle). The aim of Connections is to group the 16 words of the day into four groups, where each group of four words has a common theme.

For instance, the words "Hook", "Nana", "Peter", and "Wendy" are all Peter Pan characters. Or to take another example, "Action", "Ballpark", "Go", and "Stick" are all words which commonly come just before the word "Figure". These are the kinds of Connections you'll need to make to solve the puzzle.

Your job is to figure out what these themes are that connect the various words together - but be wary, because a lot of the time there are deceptive red herring connections placed purely to throw you off! To win the game, you have to find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes. On your fourth mistake, the game is over and the answer is revealed automatically.

Each of the four groups in each day's Connections puzzle is also assigned a different colour, which represents how easy or difficult the Connection is to find. These colours are: Yellow (Easiest), Green (Easy), Blue (Medium), and Purple (Hardest).

Click here to play today's Connections puzzle!

Connections hint: Today's Connections words

Below you'll find various hints for today's Connections. Each of the below hints will make it progressively easier for you to solve today's puzzle. First we'll reveal the words in today's Connections, followed by our Connections hint for each group. Then we'll reveal one word inside each group, followed by the groups themselves; and finally, at the bottom of this page, we'll reveal the answers to today's Connections puzzle. Here are the 16 Connections words for today:

• QUATRAIN
• DISCLOSURE
• THE SUBSTANCE
• BREADCRUMB
• SITUATIONSHIP
• STRIPTEASE
• CLUSTER
• FLAKE
• FOREST
• GHOST
• INCUBUS
• LOOP
• OSCAR
• OVEN
• PUFF
• WITCH

Connections hint for Friday 5th June

Here are your Connections hints for today:

• Yellow hint: Follow the trail.
• Green hint: Breakfast morsels.
• Blue hint: Someone's portfolio entries.
• Purple hint: How you get around.
• Extra hint 1: Every group has at least one word containing the letter 'S'
• Extra hint 2: The end is the most important part for one group.

If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:

• Yellow: Breadcrumb
• Green: Flake
• Blue: Striptease
• Purple: Incubus

Spoiler warning! Today's Connections groups are revealed just below!

Connections hints: All of today's Connections groups

If you need an even bigger clue to figure out today's Connections puzzle, below we'll reveal the four correct Connections groups - the themes which link together each set of four words in the Connections grid.

Here are the Connections groups for today:

• Yellow: Associated With Hansel and Gretel
• Green: Bit of Cereal
• Blue: Demi Moore Movies
• Purple: Ending in Methods of Transportation

Now that you know the themes for the various different Connections in today's puzzle, see if you can solve it! If not, check below for the full answer.

Spoiler warning! Today's Connections answer lies ahead!

Connections answer today

Here is the answer to today's Connections puzzle on Friday, 5th June:

• Yellow: Associated With Hansel and Gretel (Breadcrumb, Forest, Oven, Witch)
• Green: Bit of Cereal (Cluster, Flake, Loop, Puff)
• Blue: Demi Moore Movies (Disclosure, Ghost, Striptease, The Substance)
• Purple: Ending in Methods of Transportation (Incubus, Oscar, Quatrain, Situationship)

You made it to the end of another Connections puzzle! A rather whimsical one, at that. The Hansel and Gretel references were a nice throwback to my childhood, although I did want to include 'breadcrumb' in the green group. I won't elaborate on how long it took me to figure that one out! Hopefully you were able to complete this puzzle in a more reasonable time thanks to our handy hints.

Congratulations if you got today's Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you didn't succeed today, don't worry - a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!