Today's NYT Connections puzzle hints and answers (August 29, 2025): All puzzle answers

Today's NYT Connections puzzle hints and answers can help you save your winning streak. This daily word game presents 16 words that must be grouped into four distinct categories, each with a theme. You only get four chances to solve the puzzle without knowing the names of the categories.

This article provides four hints to help you identify the themes of the categories and the words that might fit them. You can also check out the answers from the final segment.

Today's NYT Connections puzzle hints (August 29, 2025)

The hints for today's Connections puzzle are described in the table below:

Looking for Crossword hints & solutions? Check out latest NYT Mini Crossword Answers, LA Times Crossword Answers, and Atlantic Crossword Answers

The words for the NYT Connections puzzle today are here (Image via The New York Times)

Categories	Hints
Yellow category	These words mean celebrities.
Green category	These words relate to things getting larger.
Blue category	You can refuel your car at these places.
Purple category	These words sit before a five-letter word that means division/divided.

Also read: Spelling Bee solver

Answers for today's New York Times Connections puzzle (August 29, 2025)

The NYT Connections hints and answers for today are described below:

The answers for the Connections puzzle today (Image via The New York Times)

Categories	Answers
Yellow category	The category is called "Famous Person." The words are Figure, Star, Personality, and Name.
Green category	These words mean "Increase." The words are Balloon, Mushroom, Mount, and Wax.
Blue category	These are "Places that Sell Gas." The words are 7-Eleven, Chevron, Gulf, and Shell.
Purple category	The category is "___Split." The words are 7-10, Banana, Lickety, and Stock.

Also read: Mini Crossword puzzle

Follow Sportskeeda for more NYT Connections-related articles

Yesterday's NYT Connections hints and answers (August 28, 2025): All puzzle hints and answers

About the author

Subhadip is an Esports and Gaming writer at Sportskeeda, specializing in mobile games, sports simulators, MOBAs, online strategy titles, virtual board games, and gacha games. He has published over 1000 articles for the site, fetching more than 10 million views.

He considers his interviews with MLBB's Esports head Ray Ng and MAL Malaysia's first Paralympian Ahmed "Syakz" Syakirin as career highlights and his experience includes stints at Contentroop and iSquad Solutions between 2017-2023.

Subhadip’s writing prowess is deeply rooted in his research, and he is constantly scouring the official websites and social media pages of his favorite titles. If there’s a rumor floating around, he digs deep to find the source and pens it down only after he’s searched every Discord server and reliable leaker with a history of accurately predicting in-game events.

When it comes to playtime, he indulges in fast-paced multiplayer titles like the EA FC franchise and MLBB, while solo, story-driven games like Assassins Creed and Watchdogs are his top choices to keep calm and drive away boredom.

HomeBois (MLBB) is his favorite esports team and he draws inspiration from esports personalities like Ahmed Syakirin and S8ul’s Dynamo. If he were to recommend any games to a video game skeptic, they’d be Clash of Clans and eFootball. He also

Besides gaming, Subhadip loves reading fiction, gardening, playing the guitar, and watching football.

Know More

Check out our NYT Connections Helper to get hints and answers for today's connections puzzle.

Edited by Niladri Roy