Today’s tips and answers NYT Connections, Sunday, August 31

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Do you need tips for today’s connections on Sunday, August 31? This will not be a surprise for veterans guessing topics … but the puzzles are connections tough. Don’t worry, however; This guide has everything you can to discover today’s hidden topics.

The further you rewind, the more tips, tips, spoilers and part of the full answer you will find. Go them!

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In this guide:

Here are 16 words of connections:

Drum Bass Fish Cards
Violin Five Does Flame
Hack Axes Blast Dice
Coordinate Art Board Roar

How to play

Connections is one of the most popular (and demanding) daily puzzle games published by The New York Times. The purpose of the connections is to group 16 words of the day for four groups, in which each group of four words has a common topic.

For example, the words “Hook”, “Nana”, “Peter” and “Wendy” are the characters of Peter Pan. Or to take another example, “Action”, “Ballpark”, “Go” and “Stick” are all words that often appear just before the word “drawing”.

Your task is to find out what these topics combine different words together – but be careful, because for a lot of time there are deceitful combinations with red herring placed only to lose you! To win the game, you need to find all four connections without making 4 mistakes. During the fourth error, the game ended and the answer is revealed automatically.

Each of the four groups in the puzzle every day is also attributed to a different color, which represents how basic or tough to find a connection. These colors are: yellow (easiest), green (basic), blue (medium) and purple (the most tough).

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The connections indicate on Sunday, August 31

Here are your tips for today:

  • Yellow: Look for a keen judgment.
  • Green: I had to play the game.
  • Blue: The same spelling, different meaning.
  • Purple: Find one word to paste a group of group for each member.
  • Additional tip 1: Only a purple motif is missing a word, starting with “B”.
  • Additional tip 2: One of the topics contains words starting to “A”, “B”, “C” and “D”.

If you need a little more aid, touch the spoiler text below to reveal one word belonging to each group:

  • Yellow: Flame
  • Green: Cards
  • Blue: Does
  • Purple: Hack

A warning about the spoiler! Today’s connection groups are revealed below!


What are today’s connection groups?

If you need an even bigger tip to determine today’s puzzle, below we will reveal four correct connection groups – topics that combine each set of four words in the connection grid.

Here are connections groups for today:

  • Yellow: Raw
  • Green: Common elements of board games
  • Blue: Heteronym
  • Purple: ___Sticks

Now that you know the motives of various connections in today’s puzzle, see if you can solve them! If not, check the full answer below.


A warning about the spoiler! Today’s connections the answer is ahead of us!


What is today’s response to calls?

Here is the answer to today’s connection puzzle on Sunday, August 31:

  • Yellow: Critate raw (bash, blast, flame, roast)
  • Green: Common elements of board games (board, cards, cubes, pieces)
  • Blue: Heteronymia (axles, bass, coordinate, does)
  • Purple: ___Sticks (chop, drum, biddle, fish)
The connections correspond to August 31, 2025.
Here are the response answers for August 31. Image loan: Rock Paper Strzelba/NYT

I think I am developing a fresh pattern in which I can easily find the first three yellow words, but I will get stuck in the fourth because I misunderstood this motif. In today’s connections, I quickly adapted the “Blast, roast and flames” theme as the motif of “fire and explosion”, but I needed a minute to come up with the motive of “criticism” and add “Bash”.

Fortunately, the “cards” and “cards” quickly directed my mind towards “board games”, so the green motif did not cause headache today. I can’t say the same about the blue motif that I couldn’t find. As usual, I checked the homophone, but I did not look for heterony – and I am not sure if he could see it, even if I tried.

It is good that purple words made me think about “sticks” after just a minute or two. I have always thought that fish sticks are called “fish fingers” in English, but apparently it is only Great Britain – the US is using the Kiev variety. There is no problem for me, because “fish sticks” is a literal translation of the Dutch name for the same rectangular, breaded fishermen.

Congratulations, if you have today’s connections, answer well, with or without the aid of our handy tips above! And if you are not successful today, don’t worry – the fresh puzzle is published every day at midnight, so you can try again tomorrow, just like Wordle!

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