Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 5, #1090

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Here are some hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle for June 5, No. 1,090.

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Today's NYT Connections puzzle features a challenging purple category, but when is purple NOT challenging? Today, you'll have to hunt for related words hidden inside longer words. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers.

The Times 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 the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.

Read more: NYT Connections Puzzle: Here's a Great Hint to Help You Win

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: Classic, creepy fairy tale.

Green group hint: Trix are for kids.

Blue group hint: GI Jane is another one.

Purple group hint: Hunt out the hidden words.

Answers for today's Connections groups

Yellow group: Associated with Hansel and Gretel.

Green group: Bit of cereal.

Blue group: Demi Moore movies

Purple group: Ending in methods of transportation.

Read more: The Best and Worst Letters for Wordle, According to the Data

What are today's Connections answers?

The yellow words in today's Connections

The theme is associated with Hansel and Gretel. The four answers are breadcrumb, forest, oven and witch.

The green words in today's Connections

The theme is bit of cereal. The four answers are cluster, flake, loop and puff.

The blue words in today's Connections

The theme is Demi Moore movies. The four answers are Disclosure, Ghost, Striptease and The Substance.

The purple words in today's Connections

The theme is ending in methods of transportation. The four answers are incubus (bus), Oscar (car), quatrain (train) and situationship (ship).

Toughest Connections puzzles

We've made a note of some of the toughest Connections puzzles so far. Maybe they'll help you see patterns in future puzzles.

#5: Included "things you can set," such as mood, record, table and volleyball.

#4: Included "one in a dozen," such as egg, juror, month and rose.

#3: Included "streets on screen," such as Elm, Fear, Jump and Sesame.

#2: Included "power ___" such as nap, plant, Ranger and trip.

#1: Included "things that can run," such as candidate, faucet, mascara and nose.

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GAEL COOPER

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line. See full bio