If youre looking for the Connections answer for Saturday, August 9, 2025, read onIll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solutions to all four categories. Along the way, Ill explain the meanings of the trickier words and well learn how everything fits together. Beware, there are spoilers below for August 9, NYT Connections #790! Read on if you want some hints (and then the answer) to todays Connections game.

If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day, bookmark this page. (If you play Wordle, Strands, or Quordle, check out our hints for those games, too.)

Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need!

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Yellow category - Synonyms.

Green category - Related adjectives.

Blue category - Pop culture.

Purple category - Fill in the blank.

Hints for the themes in todays Connections puzzleHere are some spoiler-free hints for the groupings in todays Connections:

Yellow category - Related to output.

Green category - They might make you laugh or roll your eyes.

Blue category - Theyre spooky, but also sweet.

Purple category - Made from the same ubiquitous crop.

BEWARE: Spoilers follow for todays Connections puzzle!Were about to give away some of the answers. Scroll slowly if you dont want the whole thing spoiled. (The full solution is a bit further down.)

A heads up about the tricky partsKNOCK-KNOCK and LET ME IN do not go together.

FRUIT could fit into the phrase FRUITs of your labor.

SYRUP (of this variety) is used to sweeten many processed foods.

TWILIGHT was a cultural phenomenon in the mid-aughts.

What are the categories in todays Connections?Yellow: RESULT

Green: KINDS OF JOKES

Blue: MOVIES FEATURING SUPERNATURAL ROMANCE

Purple: CORN-Y THINGS

DOUBLE BEWARE: THE SOLUTION IS BELOWReady to learn the answers to todays Connections puzzle? I give them all away below.

What are the yellow words in todays Connections?The yellow grouping is considered to be the most straightforward. The theme for todays yellow group is RESULT and the words are: FRUIT, PRODUCT, RETURN, YIELD.

What are the green words in todays Connections?The green grouping is supposed to be the second-easiest. The theme for todays green category is KINDS OF JOKES and the words are: DAD, INSIDE, KNOCK-KNOCK, PRACTICAL.

What are the blue words in todays Connections?The blue grouping is the second-hardest. The theme for todays blue category is MOVIES FEATURING SUPERNATURAL ROMANCE and the words are: CASPER, GHOST, LET ME IN, TWILIGHT.

What are the purple words in todays Connections?The purple grouping is considered to be the hardest. The theme for todays purple category is CORN-Y THINGS and the words are: MAZE, MUFFIN, SILK, SYRUP.

How I solved todays ConnectionsPRACTICAL, KNOCK-KNOCK, and DAD could all be types of jokes. Oh, maybe INSIDE, too.

LET ME IN, TWILIGHT, CASPER, and GHOST might all be movies featuring the undead, such as vampires and ghosts. Ah, and theyre all romances.

What do you think so far? I thought SYRUP, FRUIT, and MUFFIN might go together as breakfast options, but I dont see a fourthand SYRUP, a topping, doesnt really work there anyway.

I think MAZE, SYRUP, SILK, and MUFFIN go together as words that can come after corn. Nice.

That leaves YIELD, PRODUCT, FRUIT, and RETURN, which are all words referring to the outcome or results of something, usually in terms of manufacturing or investing.

Connections Puzzle #790 How to play ConnectionsI have a full guide to playing Connections, but heres a refresher on the rules:

First, find the Connections game either on the New York Times website or in their Games app (formerly the Crossword app). Youll see a game board with 16 tiles, each with one word or phrase. Your job is to select a group of four tiles that have something in common. Often they are all the same type of thing (for example: RAIN, SLEET, HAIL, and SNOW are all types of wet weather) but sometimes there is wordplay involved (for example, BUCKET, GUEST, TOP TEN, and WISH are all types of lists: bucket list, guest list, and so on).

Select four items and hit the Submit button. If you guessed correctly, the category and color will be revealed. (Yellow is easiest, followed by green, then blue, then purple.) If your guess was incorrect, youll get a chance to try again.

You win when youve correctly identified all four groups. But if you make four mistakes before you finish, the game ends and the answers are revealed.

How to win ConnectionsThe most important thing to know to win Connections is that the groupings are designed to be tricky. Expect to see overlapping groups. For example, one puzzle seemed to include six breakfast foods: BACON, EGG, PANCAKE, OMELET, WAFFLE, and CEREAL. But BACON turned out to be part of a group of painters along with CLOSE, MUNCH, and WHISTLER, and EGG was in a group of things that come by the dozen (along with JUROR, ROSE, and MONTH). So dont hit submit until youve confirmed that your group of four contains only those four things.

If youre stuck, another strategy is to look at the words that seem to have no connection to the others. If all that comes to mind when you see WHISTLER is the painting nicknamed Whistlers Mother, you might be on to something. When I solved that one, I ended up googling whether there was a painter named Close, because Close didnt fit any of the obvious themes, either.

Another way to win when youre stuck is, obviously, to read a few helpful hintswhich is why we share these pointers every day. Check back tomorrow for the next puzzle!

Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to yesterday's Connections.