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These are the hints and answers for NYT Connections puzzle #807, published Tuesday, August 26, 2025. The sixteen tiles are listed first, followed by graduated clues; the complete groups are below a clear spoiler warning.
Today’s Connections word list: puzzle #807
For the August 26, 2025 puzzle, the board contains these sixteen words:
- TOAD
- RIDE
- TATTOO
- BAR
- MOLE
- FOOT
- HEEL
- BADGER
- RAT
- HARRY
- STEP
- SCAR
- CREEP
- PIERCING
- BUG
- SKUNK
Graduated hints for August 26
Try these clues in order if you want help without seeing the solutions. They are guide-written hints, not statements from NYT staff.
- Yellow: Think of physical features someone might use to describe a person.
- Green: This group points to a contemptible person—the “dirt worst,” as Forbes phrased its clue.
- Blue: The words can mean to pester someone who wants to be left alone.
- Purple: Add a word meaning a place to sit that rhymes with “fool.”
Spoilers: the four Connections answers
Stop here if you still want to solve the board.
| Color | Category | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Yellow | DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS | MOLE, PIERCING, SCAR, TATTOO |
| Green | A REAL JERK | CREEP, HEEL, RAT, SKUNK |
| Blue | PESTER | BADGER, BUG, HARRY, RIDE |
| Purple | WORDS BEFORE “STOOL” | BAR, FOOT, STEP, TOAD |
Why the overlaps can mislead
MOLE can suggest a criminal informant as well as a distinguishing mark, while HEEL and FOOT may steer a solver toward a body-part theme. In TechRadar’s August 25 guide, contributor Johnny Dee reported initially grouping MOLE with criminal-related slang and mistaking HEEL, FOOT, STEP, and BAR for a podiatry connection. Those are the writer’s reported solving missteps, not additional categories in the puzzle.
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How Connections works
Connections presents sixteen words to sort into four groups of four. Forbes’ August 25, 2025 guide describes the game as going live at midnight local time and being available through the NYT website or Games app; that guide is not confirmation of present-day access or subscription terms. A wrong guess costs a life, and four errors end the game. The colors indicate approximate difficulty, with yellow generally easiest and purple often hardest. Players can shuffle tiles, and a word may appear to fit more than one possible group.
A 2024 paper by Tim Merino, Sam Earle, Ryan Sudhakaran, Shyam Sudhakaran, and Julian Togelius describes Connections as a semantic grouping task and discusses overlapping words and false groupings as ways puzzles can misdirect solvers. It addresses the game generally, not puzzle #807.
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