Hey there, Connectors! I hope your week is off to a great start.

Starting today, I’m going to switch things up a little bit here. I’ve been thinking about this for a while and today’s the day to make the change. No need to worry though!

I’m adding an extra set of hints, with one word for each group. I think it makes the most sense to slot this set of hints between the first bunch (which is often a little more cryptic) and revealing the official description for each category. There’s another little change I’m making, but… we’ll get to that.

Let’s see how things go. I’d appreciate your feedback on this either on Discord (more on that in a moment) or via email at [my first name @ my full name dot net]. I’m just trying to make this column as useful as I can for you all!

Before we begin, we have a great little community on Discord, where we chat about NYT Connections, the rest of the NYT games and all kinds of other stuff. Everyone who has joined has been lovely. It’s a fun hangout spot, and you’re more than welcome to hang out with us.

Discord is also the best way to give me any feedback about the column, especially on the rare (or not-so-rare) occasions that I mess something up. I don’t look at the comments or Twitter much. You can also read my weekend editions of this column at my new newsletter, Pastimes.

Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, June 3 are coming right up.

How To Play Connections

Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT’s website or Games app.

You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part.

There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay.

Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap.

If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats.

If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication’s Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed.

Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find our hints Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query.

What Are Today’s Connections Hints?

Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them.

Today’s 16 words are...

• SHOWBOAT
• TENNIS
• ID
• WITCHCRAFT
• FRIENDSHIP
• SELF-CARE
• HUNKY-DORY
• POSTURE
• OK
• LAW
• FINE
• CHARM
• GRANDSTAND
• SWELL
• MEDICINE
• SWAGGER

And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:

• Yellow group — be full of one’s self, perhaps
• Green group — ehhhh, you know, not so bad
• Blue group — slap and link would fit in here
• Purple group — you might want to give these a test run before you leap in

One Word For Each Connections Group

Need some extra help?

Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.

Let’s take a look at one word for each group.

Today’s Connections word hints are…

• Yellow group — POSTURE
• Green group — FINE
• Blue group — TENNIS
• Purple group — MEDICINE

What Are Today’s Connections Groups?

Today’s Connections groups are...

• Yellow group — be ostentatious
• Green group — copacetic
• Blue group — kinds of bracelets
• Purple group — things you can practice

What Are Today’s Connections Answers?

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers.

This is your final warning!

Today’s Connections answers are...

• Yellow group — be ostentatious (GRANDSTAND, POSTURE, SHOWBOAT, SWAGGER)
• Green group — copacetic (FINE, HUNKY-DORY, OK, SWELL)
• Blue group — kinds of bracelets (CHARM, FRIENDSHIP, ID, TENNIS)
• Purple group — things you can practice (LAW, MEDICINE, SELF-CARE, WITCHCRAFT)

Since I was so close to my 100th win in a row at this point, it seems like a good time to move my little streak tracker and emoji result thing to after the walkthrough of my thought process. I know some of you were hoping for me to reach that 100-win streak and, well, we'll see what happened as part of that journey today.

My first attempt was with a group of SHOWBOAT, POSTURE, CHARM and SWAGGER. I was one away from a group there. I swapped out POSTURE for GRANDSTAND and was still one away! Uh oh.

I eventually realized that CHARM was the odd one out and ditched that for POSTURE. That finally got me the yellows.

I made a silly mistake with the next group by accidentally including SELF-CARE with the greens instead of HUNKY-DORY (SWELL doesn't really git with those, since it's more of a positive state than "just fine" in my book). Now I was really in trouble. A 97-game streak on the line. The nerves were rattling.

Thankfully, I was able to spot the purples on the smaller grid and I was able to exhale. I didn't get the connection for the blues (I don't think I'd heard of a TENNIS bracelet before). Did not care one bit about not recognizing the connection at that point.

That meant I had a 98th win in the books. No perfect game obviously. I'm just happy to keep this thing rolling. For the record, here's how I fared:

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That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Wednesday’s game if you need them.

P.S. The YouTube algorithm has been doing a great job lately of surfacing new music I enjoy from artists I've never heard of before. I liked this performance very much. I'll be sure to check out more of Jenny Scara's music:

Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Call someone you love!

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