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NYT Connections for Monday, December 22, 2025, is game #925. Below are progressively clearer hints, followed by the category names and full answer groups. Stop before the solution section if you want to solve it yourself.
Hints for Connections #925
Try the clues in order; each step gives more away.
Subtle clues
- To flood in.
- After you!
- Tarot is another type.
- Crayola products, but change the letters.
Stronger group hints
- Incoming.
- Expected soon.
- Made of stiff paper.
- Each group member is missing a colorful letter.
Word bank
RUSH, PIN, PLAYING, LATER, GREETING, CYA, RASH, COMING, WAVE, BUSINESS, FUTURE, BROW, WHIT, FOLLOWING, MEMBERSHIP, SURGE.
Answers for December 22, 2025
Spoilers below: the category names and all 16 answers follow.
Yellow — INFLUX
RASH, RUSH, SURGE, WAVE. Each can describe a large incoming flow or sudden increase.
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Green — SUBSEQUENT
COMING, FOLLOWING, FUTURE, LATER. These words refer to what occurs afterward or is yet to come.
Blue — KINDS OF CARDS
BUSINESS, GREETING, MEMBERSHIP, PLAYING.
Purple — COLORS MINUS LAST LETTER
BROW, CYA, PIN, WHIT. Add the missing final letter to make BROWN, CYAN, PINK, and WHITE.
Rank #2
Why the purple group is easy to miss
The purple set depends on spelling rather than a straightforward shared meaning: each tile is a color name with its final letter removed. The Crayola clue points toward colors, while the altered spellings conceal the connection.
Independent reader supportYour contribution helps us test, update, and keep practical guides available for everyone.What Connections asks you to do
Connections presents 16 terms and asks players to sort them into four groups of four based on a shared connection. A 2024 research paper evaluated 100 puzzles drawn from a 358-puzzle corpus. In that experiment, human accuracy was 60.67% with full hints, compared with 40.25% for Claude 3.5; those figures describe that study, not general or current game performance. Read the paper by Angel Yahir Loredo Lopez, Tyler McDonald, and Ali Emami.
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