NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Thursday, August 28, 2025

NEW YORK - Today’s New York Times Connections puzzle (#809) challenged solvers with four distinct word‐association categories. Here are the expertly curated hints and complete solutions for August 28, 2025.

Hints by Category

• Yellow (Easiest): Help! - think of places where you can get trapped.
• Green: The Queen’s beverage. - what you use to prepare tea.
• Blue: Not soft. - terms associated with hardness.
• Purple (Hardest): Look at what you are using to type. - words ending with keyboard keys.

Answers

Puzzle aficionados who stumbled over today’s purple set can take solace in the satisfying wordplay: each term concludes with a common key (“tab,” “space,” “caps,” “shift”), a fittingly clever finale to this midweek challenge.