Need a nudge for the NYT Connections puzzle from Tuesday, August 5, 2025? Use the hints below in order, then scroll to the full solution when you’re ready. The board’s four groups connect to underground transit, cooking, snowman decorations, and phrases ending in “code.”
Hints for Connections on August 5, 2025
Try each clue before moving to the next. The one-word nudges are more revealing.
- Yellow: Look for names associated with underground urban rail. Nudge: TUBE
- Green: Find cooking actions that make ingredients smaller. Nudge: GRATE
- Blue: Think of familiar things used to decorate a snowman. Nudge: SCARF
- Purple: Each answer can come before the word “code.” Nudge: HEALTH
Connections answers for Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Spoilers below: these are the four completed groups.
- Subterranean transit: METRO, SUBWAY, TUBE, UNDERGROUND
- Make into smaller pieces while cooking: CUBE, GRATE, MINCE, SLICE
- Used to decorate a snowman: CARROT, COAL, PIPE, SCARF
- ___ CODE: DRESS, HEALTH, SECRET, ZIP
The last group completes familiar phrases: dress code, health code, secret code, and ZIP code.
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Identify this board by its date and answer words. Several answer pages call the August 5 puzzle Connections #786, while other search results give conflicting numbers, including #787 and #821. The number is therefore not reliable enough to use as an unqualified identifier.
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