ForbesNYT ‘Connections’ Hints For Tuesday, June 3: Clues And Answers For Today’s GameBy Kris Holt

It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: it’s time for another round of Connections!

I’m trying to take things as easy as I can in the first half of this week before a busy few days ahead. I’ll be covering the various Summer Game Fest events over the weekend elsewhere (and maybe a bit here too!). Not to mention that I am eagerly awaiting my Nintendo Switch 2 to arrive any day now. Excited to get my hands on that, to write about it and play a ton of Mario Kart World. See you on the race track?

Before we start, we have a great little community on Discord, where we chat about NYT Connections, the rest of the NYT games, and all sorts of other stuff. Everyone who has joined has been fantastic. It’s a fun place to hang out, and you’re more than welcome to join 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 Wednesday, June 4 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...

• PIPE
• HOOK
• ROOT
• APPLE
• CHEER
• CONSOLE
• CLOUD
• BRIDGE
• RUNNER
• BOWLER
• REFRAIN
• WHISTLE
• BENCH
• CHORUS
• CLAP
• COAT RACK

And the hints for today’s Connections groups are:

• Yellow group — don't forget a verse or two, and maybe a solo
• Green group — woo, yeah, let's go!
• Blue group — they might welcome you in
• Purple group — ceci n’est pas une... uh, hint, but you might see some of this in the likes of the MoMA anyway

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 — HOOK
• Green group —ROOT
• Blue group — RUNNER
• Purple group — APPLE

What Are Today’s Connections Groups?

Today’s Connections groups are...

• Yellow group — parts of a song
• Green group — support audibly
• Blue group — things in an entryway
• Purple group — imagery in Magritte paintings

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 — parts of a song (BRIDGE, CHORUS, HOOK, REFRAIN)
• Green group — support audibly (CHEER, CLAP, ROOT, WHISTLE)
• Blue group — things in an entryway (BENCH, COAT RACK, CONSOLE, RUNNER)
• Purple group — imagery in Magritte paintings (APPLE, BOWLER, CLOUD, PIPE)

I suspected when I saw CONSOLE and CLOUD that those might refer to types of gaming, but I didn't immediately see anything that made sense with them. The yellows jumped out at me quickly, though, so I sorted those out.

I then made an error by grouping CONSOLE (as in to offer sympathy) with CHEER, ROOT and CLAP. It didn't make sense with those. WHISTLE, however, did for the greens.

I figured that BOWLER, APPLE and PIPE would be elements of that one painting, the title of which I couldn't remember. As such, the blues gelled together in my mind as part of a group of household items.

I was close enough to the purple connection, at least! It refers to the work of Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte. In case you’d like a couple of examples…

Oh jeez, that makes it win number 99 on my current streak. Tomorrow's a big day. Join me for it? For the record, here's how I fared with this one:

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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. Regular readers may be aware that I am completely smitten with Electric Callboy and their brilliant blend of techno, metal, pop and just plain fun. Their latest single, "Revery," doesn't have much in the way of the EDM side of things, but I love it all the same.

It’s a darker song with a nursery rhyme-like intro and outro and plenty of screaming – so fair warning, in case that's not your jam. The video's great too. It seems to draw inspiration from the likes of The NeverEnding Story and Stranger Things (gonna have to rewatch that show before the final season later this year!):

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