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Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for June 3 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,088. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,087, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.
Alternatively, visit our how to play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.
What is Connections
Solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.
Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Today's Connection Grid and Words
- Ray
- Jasmine
- Colorful
- Bell
- Sticky
- Pasty
- Brown
- Sushi
- Gummy
- Arie
- Sugary
- Samosa
- Fatayer
- Ursine
- Empanada
- Moan
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Major crop
- 🟩 Green: This
- 🟦 Blue: Filled bread
- 🟪 Purple: That one Wreck It Ralph 2 scene
Today's Connections Group Hints
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Kinds of rice
- 🟩 Green: Gummy bear descriptors
- 🟦 Blue: Savory stuffed pastries
- 🟪 Purple: Disney princesses minus last letter
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Today's Connections answers
The Connections answers on June 3 for puzzle #1,088 are a bit harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 2.5 out of 5.
- 🟨 Kinds of rice: Brown, jasmine, sticky, sushi
- 🟩 Gummy bear descriptors: Colorful, gummy, sugary, ursine
- 🟦 Savory stuffed pastries: Empanada, fatayer, pasty, samosa
- 🟪 Disney princesses minus last letter: Arie, bell, moan, ray
I was quite hungry when I started today's puzzle and the categories did not help.
So of course I spotted the pastries almost immediately with pasty, empanada, samosa and fatayer. All delicious.
Sticky put me on the rice train and it was a quick scan to get sushi, brown and jasmine for the yellow set.
I had gummy, sugary and ursine right way for the green set but I wasn't thinking gummy bear for some reason. Eventually, it did click and I grabbed colorful.
Which left the Disney princesses in Ariel, Belle, Moana, and Raya. I spent much of the puzzle trying to place Arie in an astrological set but never made the pivot to Disney. Ah well.
I'll eat my failure via samosa or maybe an empanada, maybe both? Ahh, but a fatayer would be good as well. So would a pasty. I am a simple man who wants bread filled with goodies.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Clandestine: Cloak-and-dagger, covert, hush-hush, top secret
- 🟩 British potato dishes: Bubble and squeak, chips, jacket potato, mash
- 🟦 Heraldic achievements: Coat of arms, crest, helmet, shield
- 🟪 Ending in modal auxiliary verbs: Cape may, free will, grape must, tin can
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,087, which had a difficulty rating of 2 out of 5.
I've been reading the Slow Horses series, so I locked in on the spy games pretty quickly. Plus, cloak-and-dagger really stuck out. Covert, hush-hush, and top secret fell quickly from there.
Grape must is how I got the purple category. Cape may stuck out to me next. Then I grabbed free will and tin can to wrap it up.
I have no idea what a jacket potato is, but I know patches, so I picked coat of arms, crest, helmet and shield next.
Which left bubble and squeak, chips, jacket potato and mash as my final four. A quick search revealed bubble and squeak is a mixture of mashed potatoes and cabbage with ham. And a jacket potato is basically a baked potato. Now I know.
