Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers, Thursday Jun 5
Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #724.
Connections game play online
Need a hint for today’s Connections on Thursday, 5th June? If you’re struggling, don’t feel bad about it; the NYT Connections puzzles are very difficult, and completing every daily puzzle without ever needing a guide is probably impossible.
To help you tackle today’s Connections, here are a few handy hints. Feel free to scroll down for word and theme reveals too.
In this guide:
- How to play Connections
- Connections hint for Thursday 5th June
- What are today’s Connections groups?
- What are today’s Connections answers?
Here are the 16 Connections words for today:
| Pipe | Eve | Summer | Apple |
| Snake | Rim | Crow | Verge |
| Bumper | Turner | Plunger | Spoiler |
| Brink | Wrench | Grille | Cusp |
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”.
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 for Thursday 5th June
Here are your Connections hints for today:
- Yellow: These words are ‘almost there’.
- Green: As found in a plumber’s kit.
- Blue: They’re the stylish part of your ride.
- Purple: Look for female musicians.
- Extra hint 1: Every group except blue contains a four-letter word.
- Extra hint 2: The animals are in different groups – and they’re not really animals, in this case.
If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:
- Yellow: Cusp
- Green: Wrench
- Blue: Spoiler
- Purple: Crow
Spoiler warning! Today’s Connections groups are revealed just below!
What are 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: Precipice
- Green: Plumbing Equipment
- Blue: Ways To Modify A Car’s Exterior
- Purple: Best Female Rock Performance Grammy Winners
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!
What is today’s Connections answer?
Here is the answer to today’s Connections puzzle on Thursday, 5th June:
- Yellow: Precipice (Brink, Cusp, Eve, Verge)
- Green: Plumbing Equipment (Pipe, Plunger, Snake, Wrench)
- Blue: Ways To Modify A Car’s Exterior (Bumper, Grille, Rim, Spoiler)
- Purple: Best Female Rock Performance Grammy Winners (Apple, Crow, Summer, Turner)
My lack of knowledge about cars is interfering with my Connections success again. I noticed the match between ‘spoiler’ and ‘bumper’ pretty early, and I did have my suspicions about ‘grille’, but with more words still in the race, I couldn’t complete the full blue theme yet.
Good thing the plumbing theme was manageable today. Make no mistake; I don’t know anything about plumbing either, but these tools and parts have somehow become part of my general knowledge. I felt like a proper Super Mario solving this one!
The yellow theme wasn’t that troublesome either – certainly not the easiest theme ever, but a synonyms-based Connections group is usually manageable, even if it takes a minute. Once I got yellow and green out of the way, separating the ‘cars’ group from the musicians was still quite hard, but now that I was certain about the theme, adding ‘rim’ instead of words like ‘summer’ and ‘apple’ felt logical.
