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Spoiler-safe hints for September 5
These are secondary-publisher hints, not quotations from NYT. They move from broad nudges toward the themes, so stop here if you want to solve the grid yourself.
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- Yellow: A lively, sharp quality; think of an extra kick.
- Green: A relationship status, or a way to be without company.
- Blue: Male animals.
- Purple: Chinese dynasties.
Category names
The four categories are PIQUANCY, AVAILABLE, MALE ANIMALS, and CHINESE DYNASTIES. The words for each group are below.
Full answers for Connections #817
Spoilers ahead: This section gives the complete groups and all 16 tiles.
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| Color | Category | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Yellow | PIQUANCY | KICK, PUNCH, ZEST, ZING |
| Green | AVAILABLE | FREE, SINGLE, SOLO, STAG |
| Blue | MALE ANIMALS | BILLY, BUCK, JACK, RAM |
| Purple | CHINESE DYNASTIES | HAN, MING, SONG, TANG |
Why STAG is the tricky tile
STAG can point toward a male animal, but it belongs with FREE, SINGLE, and SOLO in AVAILABLE. In this group, each word can describe being unaccompanied or available. The animal interpretation is the tempting overlap.
How to identify this puzzle
This guide is for the Friday, September 5, 2025 puzzle, #817—not the separate puzzle dated Saturday, September 5, 2026. TechRadar’s September 4, 2025 guide identifies the next puzzle as Friday, September 5 (#817), while WordHint’s September 5 archive gives the same answer set. The corroborating archive pages are TechRadar and WordHint.
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How Connections works
Connections asks players to sort 16 words into four groups of four based on a shared category. TechRadar describes the groups as yellow, green, blue, and purple, with one group at each difficulty level, and reports that players can make up to four mistakes. It says the game is playable on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile; current access and subscription terms are not established here.
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