This is the historical NYT Connections puzzle for Monday, February 3, 2025 (No. 603). Here are its word bank and the published group hints and themes. The exact four-word answer groups are not established by the cited guides, so they are not presented as a verified answer key.
NYT Connections No. 603 word bank
The 16 words on the February 3, 2025 board were:
SNAP, SCREW, BURN, ZEST, LOUSE, WEDGE, ZING, MITE, SLICE, MUCK, BIT, OUCH, LITTLE, TWIST, FOUL, TAD.
The date and word bank are reported in TechRadar’s guide to game No. 603; the Connections++ archive also lists No. 603 for February 3, 2025.
Hints and group themes
TechRadar’s guide gives these progressively more direct nudges and category labels:
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- Yellow hint: Jibe reactions. Theme: COMMENT AFTER AN INSULT.
- Green hint: Titchy. Theme: TINY AMOUNT, WITH “A”.
- Blue hint: Lemon and lemon. Theme: BIT OF CITRUS GARNISH.
- Purple hint: It’s all gone wrong. Theme: BUNGLE, WITH “UP”.
These are hints and theme labels, not the four-word memberships. The accessible guide text does not establish those memberships, and some words have plausible overlapping associations; for example, FOUL could fit more than one expression. Listing a guessed partition as the answer would risk giving a false solution.
How Connections works
Connections presents 16 words that players sort into four groups of four. Select four words and submit them; an incorrect guess uses one of the allowed mistakes, and four mistakes end the game. Yellow is often the easiest group, while blue and green are usually intermediate and purple often relies on wordplay, but that difficulty pattern is not a rule. Forbes describes the gameplay and notes that the NYT archive is available to readers with an All Access or Games subscription in its February 3 guide.
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Why the year matters
This guide concerns the Monday, February 3, 2025 puzzle, game No. 603—not a Connections board from February 3 in another year. TechRadar published its guide on February 2, 2025, ahead of the puzzle date, and the archive independently records No. 603 on February 3.
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