Subj : NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, August 4 (game #785
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Date : Sun Aug 03 2025 22:15:08

NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, August 4 (game #785)

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Sun, 03 Aug 2025 21:00:00 +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.

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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 
Sunday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers 
for Sunday, August 3 (game #784) . 

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

Today's NYT Connections words are APHID BEETLE CEDAR DECAY EASY EFFORT GEO 
TICK BEECH VENDETTA APPLE PINE MITE COOKIE YEW ZITI NYT Connections today 
(game #785) - hint #1 - group hints 

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Tiny bugs 
GREEN: Barking up the correct ones BLUE: Spelling game PURPLE: Say aloud to 
see the link 

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 #785) - hint #2 - group answers 

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: ARTHROPODS 
GREEN: TREES BLUE: [LETTER] (IS) FOR __ PURPLE: WORDS THAT SOUNDS LIKE TWO 
LETTERS 

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT 
TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #785) - the answers (Image credit: 
New York Times) 

The answers to today's Connections, game #785, are 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 My rating: Hard My score: 3 mistakes 

Every day Connections finds a new way to either teach me or confuse me. Today 
it was both. 

I knew that A is for EFFORT and for APPLE, while V is for VENDETTA. But what 
is COOKIE doing in the [LETTER] (IS) FOR __ group? And what's with the square 
bracket rounded bracket? Is this an equation? 

Realizing that I must be suffering from some terrible pop culture gap, a 
post-game Google revealed that the answer was related to the Cookie Monster 
from Sesame Street . I should have known. 

I made two mistakes trying to get that group together. The other came earlier 
in the game, when I put APPLE in with the other TREES. A for annoying. 
Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Sunday, August 3, game #784) YELLOW: 
EMULATE COPY, ECHO, MIRROR, PARROT BLUE: MANIA BUG, CRAZE, FAD, FEVER GREEN: 
SPORTS CRICKET, GOLF, POLO, SQUASH PURPLE: SINGLE ANIMAL IN A CREATIVELY 
SPELLED BAND NAME BEETLE, BIRD, GORILLA, MONKEY 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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