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Hey there, Connectors! I hope you’ve had a lovely start to your week.

I’m so glad the Premier League is back. It was a solid opening weekend, with a few surprise results. This is one of the most exciting parts of the season, as the transfer window is drawing to a close. So after clubs have had a chance to see their current squads in competitive action, they only have a few more days to bring in reinforcements and ship out players they don’t want anymore.

It’s an important time, because after September 1, they’ll be more or less stuck with their squads until the next transfer window in January. I imagine there’ll be quite a few headline moves over the next few days, and I can’t wait to see what happens.

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Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, August 25 are coming right up. Let’s get rolling!

Connections is a free New York Times daily word game that you can play on the NYT ’s website or Games app. If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the Connections archive, which includes every previous game.

Connections presents you with a grid of 16 words (sometimes phrases, symbols or numbers). The aim is to arrange them into four groups of four. You don’t know how they hit together or what the category for each group is: that’s what you have to figure out.

There’s only one correct solution and there are often red herrings. You can guess incorrectly three times. A fourth wrong guess, and it’s game over.

Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to deduce, followed by blue, green and purple. Often, the yellow and green groups have synonyms, the blues have cultural references and the purples have some kind of wordplay involved. But this is not a hard and fast rule. Be ready for curveballs – part of the fun of Connections is in how the NYT shakes things up to keep you on your toes.

As with Wordle and similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends using an emoji-based grid. The game tracks your progress too.

Many players take pride in having long win streaks or getting a reverse rainbow – correctly guessing the purple, blue, green and yellow groups in that order with no mistakes. That adds an extra little challenge.

Today’s NYT Connections Word List

After today’s Connections word list, I’ll give you a hint for each category. After that, I’ll reveal one word that goes into each group. Then I’ll reveal the categories, followed by the full answers.

  • SUPERFICIAL
  • HYPERSPACE
  • HARLEM SHAKE
  • LICKETY-SPLIT
  • RUNNING MAN
  • TRAFFIC CONE
  • TIME WARP
  • LONG WALK
  • ONE-DIMENSIONAL
  • PARALLEL UNIVERSE
  • GREEN MILE
  • INSIDE SCOOP
  • COSMETIC
  • SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
  • TELEPORTATION
  • SKIN-DEEP

Today’s NYT Connections Hints

The hints for today’s Connections categories are:

  • 🟨 Yellow group — looks can be deceiving
  • 🟩 Green group — whoa, far out, man
  • 🟦 Blue group — once you see through the mist, It may no longer feel like misery
  • 🟪 Purple group — a lovely way to end a summer Sunday, perhaps, but maybe not in a blizzard

One Answer For Each NYT Connections Group

Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory.

Let’s take a look at one answer for each group.

  • 🟨 Yellow group — ONE-DIMENSIONAL
  • 🟩 Green group — HYPERSPACE
  • 🟦 Blue group — RUNNING MAN
  • 🟪 Purple group — SCOOP

Today’s NYT Connections Categories

Today’s Connections groups are...

  • 🟨 Yellow group — surface-level
  • 🟩 Green group — sci-fi phenomena
  • 🟦 Blue group — Stephen King film adaptations, starting with "The"
  • 🟪 Purple group — ending in ice cream orders

Today’s NYT Connections Answer

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Today’s Connections answers are...

  • 🟨 Yellow group — surface-level (COSMETIC, ONE-DIMENSIONAL, SKIN-DEEP, SUPERFICIAL)
  • 🟩 Green group — sci-fi phenomena (HYPERSPACE, PARALLEL UNIVERSE, TELEPORTATION, TIME WARP)
  • 🟦 Blue group — Stephen King film adaptations, starting with "The" (GREEN MILE, LONG WALK, RUNNING MAN, SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION)
  • 🟪 Purple group — ending in ice cream orders (HARLEM SHAKE, INSIDE SCOOP, LICKETY-SPLIT, TRAFFIC CONE)

I suspected that there'd be a group of movies based on Stephen King works and another one with dance fads, but I couldn't find a fourth one for each off the bat. So I opted to take care of what turned out to be the yellows first, since those were clear enough.

The sci-fi concepts were up next. TIME WARP was the only thing that made sense with the other three, so that wiped out my dance moves idea. I figured the ice cream-related things would be the purples, and I was correct. That left the blues for the win. I totally forgot that King wrote The Running Man under a pseudonym!

How did you get on this time? Here's my grid:

Want to know more about how everything fits together? Let’s explore today’s game in more depth in my NYT Connections Answers Explained column. You can check that out by visiting my author page .

Be sure to check my blog for hints and the answer for tomorrow’s game of Connections if you need them.

P.S. I quite enjoy Motionless in White’s take on Corey Hart’s "Sunglasses at Night." It’s a pretty faithful cover – it’s still very synth-forward – but the band bring a slightly harder edge to the song:

Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Be kind to yourself and each other! Call someone you love!

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