NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, August 9 (game #790)

Date:
Fri, 08 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 Friday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers
for Friday, August 8 (game #789) .

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

Today's NYT Connections words are INSIDE PRODUCT MAZE SYRUP FRUIT KNOCK-KNOCK LET ME IN MUFFIN PRACTICAL GHOST RETURN SILK YIELD TWILIGHT DAD CASPER NYT Connections today (game #790) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: The final outcome GREEN: Funny ha-ha BLUE: Spooky love stories PURPLE: Add a word that goes with flakes

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 #790) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: RESULT
GREEN: KINDS OF JOKES BLUE: MOVIES FEATURING SUPERNATURAL ROMANCE PURPLE: CORN-Y THINGS

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #790) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #790, are YELLOW: RESULT FRUIT, PRODUCT, RETURN, YIELD GREEN: KINDS OF JOKES DAD, INSIDE, KNOCK-KNOCK, PRACTICAL BLUE: MOVIES FEATURING SUPERNATURAL ROMANCE CASPER, GHOST, LET ME IN, TWILIGHT PURPLE: CORN-Y THINGS MAZE, MUFFIN, SILK, SYRUP My rating: Hard My score: 3 mistakes

Ill be honest, I absolutely hated Connections yesterday. Not just because I failed, but because it didnt make sense to me even in hindsight.

I didnt do much better today, but at least I understood the links once I finally limped across the line with four correct groups.

My mistake meltdown came in trying to connect what became KINDS OF JOKES.
With just eight tiles left I eventually got lucky, but equally I was annoyed that I hadn't seen the easiest of todays quartets. Yesterday's NYT
Connections answers (Friday, August 8, game #789) YELLOW: MAKE EQUAL, AS A SCORE DRAW, EVEN, SQUARE, TIE GREEN: BESTOW CONFER, GRANT, PRESENT, VEST
BLUE: THINGS YOU MIGHT DO DURING A BORING CLASS/ MEETING DOODLE, DOZE, PASS NOTES, SPACE PURPLE: WORDS AFTER THE LETTERS "MS" DEGREE, MARVEL, PAC-MAN, PAINT 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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