Crack the NYT Connections: June 5, 2026 Hints and Answers

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CNET breaks down today's NYT Connections puzzle (June 5, 2026, No. 1,090), listing four hint groups and their solutions: yellow group themed around Hansel and Gretel with breadcrumb, forest, oven, witch; green group themed around cereals with cluster, flake, loop, puff; blue group themed around Demi Moore films with Disclosure, Ghost, Striptease, The Substance; purple group about endings in transportation terms with incubus, bus (via incubus), car (via Oscar), train (via quatrain) and ship (via situationship). The article also mentions the Times’ Connections Bot for scoring and progress tracking on Times Games.
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