Connections NYTLooking for Friday’s NYT Connections hints, clues and answers instead? You can find them here:ForbesToday’s NYT Connections Hints And Answers For Friday, June 5By Kris HoltTricky Connections today with a lot of fake connections and double meaning words. Can you solve it?How to Play ConnectionsConnections is the second-most popular NYT Games puzzle game outside of the main crossword itself, and an extremely fun, free offering that will get your brain moving every day. Play it right here.The goal is to take a group of 16 words and find links between four pairs of four of them. They could be specific categories of terms, or they could be little world puzzles where words may come before or after them you need to figure out. And they get more complicated from there.There is only one set of right answers for this, and you only get a certain number of tries so you can’t just spam around until you find something. There are difficulty tiers coded by color, which will usually go from yellow, blue/green to purple as difficulty increases, so know that going in and when you start linking them together.Play Puzzles & Games on ForbesYou pick the four words you think are linked and either you will get a solve and a lit up row that shows you how you were connected. If you’re close, it will tell you that you’re one away. Again, four mistakes you lose, but if you want to know the answers without failing, either come here, or delete your web cookies and try again. If you want to play more puzzles, you can get an NYT Games subscription to access the full archives of all past puzzles. So, onto the hints and answers:What Are Today’s Connections Hints?These are the hints that are laid out on the puzzle board itself, but after that, we will get into spoiler territory with some hints and eventually the answers.DINNEREXPRESSPOSTROUNDDRAGONREGISTERTIMESSHAFTDISPLAYMONITORSTAKESKINKBETRAYBASILISKDRAFTINGPOLEHere is a hint that gives you one word per group:🟡 Yellow Group - POST🟢 Green Group - REGISTER🔵 Blue Group - MONITOR🟣 Purple Group - ROUNDThe hints for the Connections groups today are:🟡 Yellow Group - Stand it upright🟢 Green Group - Inside Out related🔵 Blue Group - Forked tongues🟣 Purple Group - ____ [word]What Are Today’s Connections Groups?Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today:🟡 Yellow Group - Pillar🟢 Green Group - Indicate, as Emotions🔵 Blue Group - Kinds of Lizards🟣 Purple Group - _____ TableWhat Are Today’s Connections Answers?The full-on answers are below for each group, finally inserting the four words in each category. Spoilers follow if you do not want to get this far. The Connections answers are:🟡 Yellow Group - Pillar (POLE, POST, SHAFT, STAKE)🟢 Green Group - Indicate, as Emotions (BETRAY, DISPLAY, EXPRESS, REGISTER)🔵 Blue Group - Kinds of Lizards (BASILISK, DRAGON, MONITOR, SKINK)🟣 Purple Group - _____ Table (DINNER, DRAFTING, ROUND, TIMES)Alright, well Yellow Group tripped me up because I thought a connection was going to be “New York” with Post and Times being papers from the city. I thought maybe New York Express was one too, but that is not real, it turns out. I guess the NYT wasn’t bold enough to use themselves in a clue.Green Group has a fake connection between Display and Monitor, as I thought those would go together. Despite being Green, I thought this was one of the harder ones in the list, as it would be hard to connect these off hand without further clues, in my opinion.Well, I had to believe that Basilisk and Dragon were going to be in a group, then you look around for other lizards. That leads to the not-mythical Monitor, and then I just took a wild stab at a skink, which I have never heard of, but sounds vaguely lizard-like, and certainly didn’t fit anywhere else. It’s a very diverse family of lizards, it turns out.Purple Group, as ever, was pretty tough. So many of these have double or even triple meanings. Three of these are physical objects, but Times Table is not, which is throwing a wrench into the works.Which ones tripped you up today?Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram.Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, Bluesky and Instagram.Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.