NYT Connections game #805 is the puzzle for Sunday, August 24, 2025. Start with the graduated hints below if you want to solve it yourself; the complete four groups appear after a clear spoiler warning.
How Connections works
The New York Times Help Center describes Connections as “a word game that challenges players to find themes between words.” Each puzzle presents 16 words to sort into four groups of four. The groups are color-coded by difficulty, from yellow (easiest) to purple (trickiest). The daily puzzle releases at midnight in the player’s timezone. You can play through the NYT Connections page, the NYT Games app, nytimes.com/theathletic, or the NYT News app. NYT Help Center: Connections
Game #805 board words
The Sunday, August 24, 2025 board contains these 16 words:
- GLASS
- CORAL
- TORN
- CURTAIN
- RENT
- RATTLE
- COLD
- BOTTLE
- KING
- BOOTY
- CARAFE
- SPLIT
- CLOSE
- GARTER
- CLEFT
- DECANTER
Hints, from yellow to purple
Try these clues in order and stop when you have enough to keep going without spoilers.
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- Yellow: Receptacles for a drink.
- Green: Divided.
- Blue: Slithering things.
- Purple: A blank thing you can do with a phone. Think of familiar compound phrases ending in “call.”
Spoiler warning: full answers below
The complete category names and word groups for game #805 follow.
Yellow — WINE VESSELS
BOTTLE, CARAFE, DECANTER, GLASS
Green — RIPPED
CLEFT, RENT, SPLIT, TORN
Blue — KINDS OF SNAKES
CORAL, GARTER, KING, RATTLE
Purple — ____ CALL
BOOTY, CLOSE, COLD, CURTAIN. Each word combines with “call” to form a familiar phrase: booty call, close call, cold call, or curtain call.
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NYT’s Help Center says the Connections archive goes back to June 12, 2023 and is available to All Access and Games subscribers. Archive solves affect puzzle statistics but not streaks, and a completed archived puzzle cannot be replayed. Connections Bot, which provides difficulty, ratings, category, mistake, and guess-by-guess information, is also limited to All Access, Home Delivery, and Games subscribers. These access terms were listed by the Help Center as of October 8, 2026 and may change. NYT Help Center: Connections
TechRadar contributor Johnny Dee described this puzzle as hard and reported making three mistakes. That is one player’s account, not a published solve-rate or a measure of how players performed overall. He said he identified the wine vessels first, recognized three snake entries before spotting GARTER, and then worked through the divided-word group.
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