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1Scan for outdated or missing drivers - takes under a minute2Clear out junk files and repair common Windows errors3Fix the driver behind crashes, sound loss and screen glitchesNYT Connections puzzle #793 is the game associated with Tuesday, August 12, 2025. Start with the spoiler-safe clues below, then open the full category list or solution only if you want more help. The board’s trick is that several words invite a familiar bowling connection even though they belong to different groups.
Spoiler-free hints for Connections #793
Try each clue before moving on to the answer section. The hints are presented in the game’s color order.
- Yellow: 2 × 5
- Green: Change a vowel in “lines”
- Blue: The Big Apple
- Purple: Hollow parts
Full category answers
Spoilers below. The four categories are:
- Yellow: GROUPS OF TEN
- Green: PLACES WITH LANES
- Blue: LANDMARKS IN DOWNTOWN NYC
- Purple: THINGS WITH HOLES
Complete Connections #793 solution
Full board spoilers. These are the four groups of words:
- GROUPS OF TEN: BOWLING PINS, COMMANDMENTS, DECADE, FINGERS
- PLACES WITH LANES: BOWLING ALLEY, HIGHWAY, SUPERMARKET, SWIMMING POOL
- LANDMARKS IN DOWNTOWN NYC: BOWLING GREEN, BROOKLYN BRIDGE, CITY HALL, WALL STREET
- THINGS WITH HOLES: BOWLING BALL, COLANDER, GOLF COURSE, SPONGE
Why the board is easy to misread
Several entries begin with “BOWLING,” making a bowling theme an obvious first guess. But the words split across different categories: BOWLING PINS are a group of ten, BOWLING ALLEY has lanes, BOWLING GREEN is a downtown Manhattan landmark, and a BOWLING BALL has holes. BROOKLYN BRIDGE belongs with the other New York City landmarks, not with the hole-related words.
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How Connections works
Connections asks players to sort sixteen terms into four groups of four. A TechRadar guide says the game allows up to four mistakes and can be played through NYT Games on desktop or mobile. The puzzle format is also described in a 2024 academic paper, which presents a benchmark of 358 word-classification puzzles derived from Connections. In that paper’s experimental setup—not for this specific puzzle—the best evaluated model scored 40.25% accuracy on the full-hints benchmark, compared with 60.67% for human participants. Read the paper.
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TechRadar published its guide on August 11, 2025, and identifies the game as Tuesday’s #793; a separate dated answer page labels the puzzle August 12. The two dates likely reflect publication timing and the daily game reset. Puzzle details and the listed solution are reported by TechRadar’s August 12 Connections guide and NYT Crossword Answers’ August 12 page. The latter says it checked the official solution; direct verification against an official NYT archive page is not established here.
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