Here's your Connections hint today for Wednesday Jun 3

Looking for some Connections hints to help with today's puzzle on Wednesday, 3rd June? Well, strap on your seatbelt, because that's exactly what you're going to get!

Connections puzzles are always tricky, but this one is harder than most. Let us assist with our helpful hints and answers.

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". These are the kinds of Connections you'll need to make to solve the puzzle.

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: Today's Connections words

Below you'll find various hints for today's Connections. Each of the below hints will make it progressively easier for you to solve today's puzzle. First we'll reveal the words in today's Connections, followed by our Connections hint for each group. Then we'll reveal one word inside each group, followed by the groups themselves; and finally, at the bottom of this page, we'll reveal the answers to today's Connections puzzle. Here are the 16 Connections words for today:

EMPANADA

COLORFUL

ARIE

BELL

BROWN

FATAYER

GUMMY

JASMINE

MOAN

PASTY

RAY

SAMOSA

STICKY

SUGARY

SUSHI

URSINE

Connections hint for Wednesday 3rd June

Here are your Connections hints for today:

Yellow hint: Grain varieties.

Grain varieties. Green hint: Sweet little guys.

Sweet little guys. Blue hint: Buttery flakey crust.

Buttery flakey crust. Purple hint: Almost royal.

Almost royal. Extra hint 1: One group is missing something important.

One group is missing something important. Extra hint 2: Every group has at least one word containing the letter 'R'

If you need a bit more help, tap the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:

Yellow: Sticky

Green: Sugary

Blue: Pasty

Purple: Moan

Spoiler warning! Today's Connections groups are revealed just below!

Connections hints: All of 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: Kinds of Rice

Kinds of Rice Green: Gummy Bear Descriptors

Gummy Bear Descriptors Blue: Savory Stuffed Pastries

Savory Stuffed Pastries Purple: Disney Princesses Minus Last Letter

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!

Connections answer today

Here is the answer to today's Connections puzzle on Wednesday, 3rd June:

Yellow: Kinds of Rice (Brown, Jasmine, Sticky, Sushi)

Kinds of Rice (Brown, Jasmine, Sticky, Sushi) Green: Gummy Bear Descriptors (Colorful, Gummy, Sugary, Ursine)

Gummy Bear Descriptors (Colorful, Gummy, Sugary, Ursine) Blue: Savory Stuffed Pastries (Empanada, Fatayer, Pasty, Samosa)

Savory Stuffed Pastries (Empanada, Fatayer, Pasty, Samosa) Purple: Disney Princesses Minus Last Letter (Arie, Bell, Moan, Ray)

This puzzle would be difficult for even the most veteran Disney princess connoisseur. It's hard enough to complete the Connections puzzle with all the words provided, let alone when they're not even finished! But that was a walk in the park compared to trying to decipher the three other sets of food-related items. With words so similar, it's tough to sort them into the right groups!

Congratulations if you got today's Connections answer right, with or without the help of our handy hints above! And if you didn't succeed today, don't worry - a new Connections puzzle is released every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like with Wordle!