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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Saturday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, August 23 (game #804).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.
What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc’s Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (game #805) – today’s words
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
- GLASS
- CORAL
- TORN
- CURTAIN
- RENT
- RATTLE
- COLD
- BOTTLE
- KING
- BOOTY
- CARAFE
- SPLIT
- CLOSE
- GARTER
- CLEFT
- DECANTER
NYT Connections today (game #805) – hint #1 – group hints
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Receptacles for a drink
- GREEN: Divided
- BLUE: Slithering things
- PURPLE: [Blank] thing you can do with a phone
Need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections today (game #805) – hint #2 – group answers
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: WINE VESSELS
- GREEN: RIPPED
- BLUE: KINDS OF SNAKES
- PURPLE: ____ CALL
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #805) – the answers
The answers to today’s Connections, game #805, are…
- YELLOW: WINE VESSELS BOTTLE, CARAFE, DECANTER, GLASS
- GREEN: RIPPED CLEFT, RENT, SPLIT, TORN
- BLUE: KINDS OF SNAKES CORAL, GARTER, KING, RATTLE
- PURPLE: ____ CALL BOOTY, CLOSE, COLD, CURTAIN
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 3 mistakes
After an easy game yesterday, I was expecting a more cryptic round today – and so it proved. WINE VESSELS was easy enough to get, but the rest of today’s Connections was really difficult.
I was pleased when I managed to finally get KINDS OF SNAKES, but it took me three tries before I finally achieved it. I was pretty sure about the category and had RATTLE, KING and CORAL locked down, but was clueless about the fourth.
I didn’t really know what I was looking for with the last two groups, but thinking that SPLIT, CLEFT and TORN must belong together, I tried CURTAIN first before swapping in RENT for no reason other than a blind guess.
Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Saturday, August 23, game #804)
- YELLOW: U.S. PRESIDENTS ADAMS, FORD, GRANT, WASHINGTON
- GREEN: ACTORS WHOSE LAST NAMES ARE ALSO VERBS CHEVY CHASE, CHRISTOPH WALTZ, GEOFFREY RUSH, TOM CRUISE
- BLUE: KINDS OF POKER DRAW, OMAHA, STRIP, STUD
- PURPLE: PROPER NOUNS AFTER GERUNDS IN ’90S MOVIE TITLES AMY, JOHN MALKOVICH, LAS VEGAS, PRIVATE RYAN
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final one, as you’ll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It’s a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It’s playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
