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For the Sunday, August 3, 2025 NYT Connections puzzle, the best-supported game number is #784. Below are four progressive hints, followed by the category names and full answer key. Stop before the spoiler section if you want to solve it yourself.
Progressive hints for August 3
- Yellow: Think of ways to imitate or reproduce something.
- Green: These are sports.
- Blue: Each can describe a craze or intense enthusiasm.
- Purple: Each word is an animal that appears in a creatively spelled band name.
How Connections works
Connections presents 16 words. The goal is to sort them into four groups of four based on a shared connection. A new puzzle appears at midnight in each time zone. The game is available through NYT Games on desktop and mobile, according to TechRadar. Forbes reported that access to the full archive of past puzzles is available with an NYT Games subscription; access terms may change.
August 3 category names and answers
Spoilers below: the category names and all 16 answers are revealed here.
| Color | Category | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Yellow | Emulate | COPY, ECHO, MIRROR, PARROT |
| Green | Sports | CRICKET, GOLF, POLO, SQUASH |
| Blue | Mania | BUG, CRAZE, FAD, FEVER |
| Purple | Single animal in a creatively spelled band name | BEETLE, BIRD, GORILLA, MONKEY |
Why the purple words fit
The animal words point to The Beatles, The Byrds, Gorillaz, and The Monkees, respectively. The category relies on the animal reference in each band name, including its creative spelling.
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Game number and answer-source note
TechRadar’s dated guide labels the August 3 puzzle #784, and Forbes’s August 3 guide reports the same word groups and answers. One conflicting search result labeled the date #822 and listed different groups; it does not match those two dated reports, so this guide uses #784. The NYT primary game page was not independently accessible for confirmation.
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