NYT Connections for Wednesday, August 13, 2025, is puzzle #794 in WordHint’s archive. Below are the four spoiler-safe clues, followed by the full word list and solution. The date-specific grid and answers are reported by WordHint’s archive; an accessible official New York Times archive confirming this exact grid was not available.
Hints for Connections #794
Connections asks players to sort 16 terms into four groups of four based on a shared category. The game uses colors to indicate group difficulty, from yellow (most straightforward) through green and blue to purple (most difficult), as summarized in Wikipedia’s overview of the game.
- Yellow: Hold Attention
- Green: Excerpt
- Blue: Girl Groups
- Purple: Star Prefix
Connections word list
The 16 tiles are BANGLE, BOARD, CHARM, CHICK, CLIP, ENTRANCE, EXTRACT, FISH, GATE, GO-GO, PASSAGE, QUOTE, RIVET, STRUCK, SUPREME, and THRILL.
Answers for August 13, 2025
The archive’s category titles and solutions are listed below. The blue-group names use the tile spellings shown in the puzzle; the corresponding group names are The Bangles, The Chick, the Go-Go’s, and The Supremes.
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Yellow — Captivate
CHARM, ENTRANCE, RIVET, THRILL. Each can describe captivating or holding someone’s attention.
Green — Excerpt
CLIP, EXTRACT, PASSAGE, QUOTE. Each can refer to a portion or selection of text.
Rank #2
Blue — Member of a girl group
BANGLE, CHICK, GO-GO, SUPREME. Each points to a girl-group name: The Bangles, The Chick, the Go-Go’s, or The Supremes.
Purple — Star___
BOARD, FISH, GATE, STRUCK. Put “star” before each tile to make starboard, starfish, Stargate, and starstruck.
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