NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, August 5 (game #786)

Date:
Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Description:
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 Monday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers
for Monday, August 4 (game #785) .

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

Today's NYT Connections words are DRESS SCARF SUBWAY GRATE PIPE TUBE CUBE ZIP HEALTH CARROT UNDERGROUND SECRET METRO MINCE COAL SLICE NYT Connections today (game #786) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Urban trains GREEN: Veg reduction BLUE: The weather outside is frightful PURPLE: Password

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 #786) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: SUBTERRANEAN TRANSIT GREEN: MAKE INTO SMALLER PIECES WHILE COOKING BLUE: USED TO DECORATE
A SNOWMAN PURPLE: CODE

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #786) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #786, are YELLOW: SUBTERRANEAN TRANSIT METRO, SUBWAY, TUBE, UNDERGROUND GREEN: MAKE INTO SMALLER PIECES
WHILE COOKING CUBE, GRATE, MINCE, SLICE BLUE: USED TO DECORATE A SNOWMAN CARROT, COAL, PIPE, SCARF PURPLE: CODE DRESS, HEALTH, SECRET, ZIP My rating: Hard My score: Perfect

Did you know that if you were to lay all the track of the New York SUBWAY
from end to end it would reach all the way to Chicago?

I know this because todays Connections sent me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole looking at the worlds SUBTERRANEAN TRANSIT systems.

Anyway, I digress. This was a great game for me, as I completed it in color order and it made me feel smarter than I am.

This was mainly down to getting USED TO DECORATE A SNOWMAN giving us this group in the middle of the summer is a bit sneaky, but seeing COAL and CARROT beside each other I knew what we were looking for. Yesterday's NYT
Connections answers (Monday, August 4, game #785) YELLOW: ARTHROPODS APHID, BEETLE, MITE, TICK GREEN: TREES BEECH, CEDAR, PINE, YEW BLUE: [LETTER] (IS) FOR __ APPLE, COOKIE, EFFORT, VENDETTA PURPLE: WORDS THAT SOUNDS LIKE TWO LETTERS DECAY, EASY, GEO, ZITI 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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