Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 10, #791
Here are some hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle No. 791, for Sunday, Aug. 10.
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Today’s NYT Connections puzzle features a fun blue category, especially for bookworms like me. That purple category, though — no one does those random “look for a word inside of a word” categories like the Times. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.
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Hints for today’s Connections groups
Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group, to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.
Yellow group hint: To have an effect on something.
Green group hint: Gather together.
Blue group hint: Not nonfiction.
Purple group hint: Look at a high-school or college schedule for hints.
Answers for today’s Connections groups
Yellow group: Influence.
Green group: Amass.
Blue group: Kinds of fiction.
Purple group: Starting with math and science classes, for short.
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What are today’s Connections answers?
The completed NYT Connections puzzle for Sunday, Aug. 10, 2025, No. 791.
NYT/Screenshot by CNETThe yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is influence. The four answers are juice, pull, sway and weight.
The green words in today’s Connections
The theme is amass. The four answers are cluster, collect, concentrate and group.
The blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is kinds of fiction. The four answers are fan, historical, pulp and science.
The purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is starting with math and science classes, for short. The four answers are biopic, calcium, chemise and triglyceride. (Biology, calculus, chemistry and trigonometry.)
