NYT Connections Hints and Answers for August 31, 2025
Dateline: Sunday, August 31, 2025 The New York Times released its daily Connections puzzle (#812) today, challenging solvers to sort 16 words into four thematic groups ranging from the straightforward to the fiendishly tricky.
Hints Provided on the Puzzle Board
- Yellow (easiest): Quit negging me!
- Green: You might need fake money too.
- Blue: Words with a twin.
- Purple (hardest): …and stones.
Official Group Categories and Answers
- Yellow - Criticize harshly: bash, blast, flame, roast
- Green - Common components of board games: board, cards, dice, pieces
- Blue - Heteronyms (same spelling, different pronunciations): axes, bass, coordinate, does
- Purple - “____ sticks”: chop, drum, fiddle, fish
Solvers praised the yellow set as a quick warm-up, while the blue heteronyms and purple “sticks” categories demanded more lateral thinking and familiarity with compound words and pronunciation shifts. How did you fare?
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