NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, August 28 (game #809)

Date:
Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0000

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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Looking for a different day? 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 Wednesday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, August 27 (game #808) .

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 #809) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are CYBERSPACE KETTLE ROCK SNARE STEEL
MAKESHIFT WEB WATER ICECAPS NET CUP DIAMOND TANGLE TEABAG CANTAB NAILS NYT Connections today (game #809) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Caught up GREEN: Hot beverage BLUE: Tough stuff PURPLE: As seen on a laptop

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 #809) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: PLACES TO
GET TRAPPED GREEN: USED FOR TEA BLUE: ASSOCIATED WITH HARDNESS PURPLE: ENDING WITH KEYBOARD KEYS

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #809) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #809, are YELLOW: PLACES TO GET TRAPPED NET, SNARE, TANGLE, WEB GREEN: USED FOR TEA CUP, KETTLE, TEABAG,
WATER BLUE: ASSOCIATED WITH HARDNESS DIAMOND, NAILS, ROCK, STEEL PURPLE: ENDING WITH KEYBOARD KEYS CANTAB, CYBERSPACE, ICECAPS, MAKESHIFT My rating: Hard My score: 1 mistake

I had an office job once in a team of eight British people and one American and Ill always remember the latter's irritation after doing a tea run and discovering the many tea-making peccadillos of their co-workers: leave the teabag in, put the milk in first, put the milk in last, stir it five times, make sure you use boiling water, make it the color of terracotta.

Frankly, its no wonder that coffee has overtaken tea as the UKs favorite beverage, its so much simpler.

My personal tea obsession helped me find USED FOR TEA quickly enough,
although I did temporarily think we were looking for drums with SNARE, KETTLE and STEEL.

My mistake came in thinking that there was a group linked by words for the internet with CYBERSPACE, NET and WEB. I added CANTAB as the fourth. I had no idea what it meant, but I thought it might have been some 1950s version of
the world wide web with people in universities chatting to each other via computers the size of houses. How wrong I was. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Wednesday, August 27, game #808) YELLOW: RESTAURANT WATER OPTIONS BOTTLED, SPARKLING, STILL, TAP GREEN: ATM OPTIONS CHECKING, DEPOSIT, SAVINGS, WITHDRAWAL BLUE: BINARY QUESTION OPTIONS FALSE, NO, TRUE, YES PURPLE:
ROULETTE OPTIONS BLACK, EVEN, ODD, RED 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.



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