NYT Connections today hints and answers for Friday, June 5 #1,090

Today's puzzle is a major step down from yesterday with some sweet treats.

Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for June 5 below.

Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,090. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.

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Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,089, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.

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What is Connections

Solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.

Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.

Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it

Today's Connection Grid and Words

• Flake
• Oscar
• Witch
• Ghost
• Incubus
• Breadcrumb
• Cluster
• Situationship
• Striptease
• Puff
• Quatrain
• Forest
• Oven
• Disclosure
• Loop
• The Substance

We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:

• 🟨 Yellow: Candy house
• 🟩 Green: Breakfast
• 🟦 Blue: More
• 🟪 Purple: Travel

Today's Connections Group Hints

If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:

• 🟨 Yellow: Associated with Hansel and Gretel
• 🟩 Green: Bit of cereal
• 🟦 Blue: Demi Moore movies
• 🟪 Purple: Ending in methods of transportation

These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.

Today's Connections answers

The Connections answers on June 5 for puzzle #1,090 are way, way easier than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 1.8 out of 5.

• 🟨 Associated with Hansel and Gretel: Breadcrumb, forest, oven, witch
• 🟩 Bit of cereal: Cluster, flake, loop, puff
• 🟦 Demi Moore movies: Disclosure, ghost, striptease, the substance
• 🟪 Ending in methods of transportation: Incubus, oscar, quatrain, situationship

Because I saw as I see things, The Substance was obvious from jump, which led me down the Demi Moore path. Ghost and Disclosure were the next two I saw. I momentarily forgot about Striptease but eventually found that one for the blue set.

Trying to figure out Quatrain is how I got the purple set when I split the word and saw train. Situationship solidified the set, and then it was just hunting to find oscar and incubus.

I thought the cereals would be the yellow set, which is why I put in the Hansel and Gretel words of breadcrumb, forest, oven, and witch next. Quelle surprise.

Anyway, that left cluster, flake, loop, and puff as my final four.

Yesterday's Connections answers

• 🟨 Painting media: Acrylic, gouache, oil, tempera
• 🟩 Espirit: Gusto, panache, verve, vinegar
• 🟦 Starts of classic hip-hop groups: Beastie, public, run, salt
• 🟪 Ghost ____: Kitchen, pepper, town, writer

Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,089, which had a difficulty rating of 2.5 out of 5.

I imagine the puzzle is baiting us with the oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper bit, which just put me in mind of Jersey Mike's sandwiches. My actual first thought was Salt n' Pepa.

Beastie is what solidified the hip-hop groups for me. This is how I got to Public Enemy and Run DMC for the blue set.

I legitimately thought the painting set would be slightly harder, so I was surprised when I grabbed gouache, oil, tempera, and acrylic thinking it would be the green set. I only know of gouache because I dated an art major in college. Perhaps this is one you can guess based on the other words.

Anyway, I knew the true green set now, so I popped in the ghost words of kitchen, pepper, town, and writer.

Which left gusto, panache, verve, and vinegar as my final four.