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Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Wednesday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, August 27 (game #808) . Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints. What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game. SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Connections today (game #809) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times) Today's NYT Connections words are… CYBERSPACE KETTLE ROCK SNARE STEEL MAKESHIFT WEB WATER ICECAPS NET CUP DIAMOND TANGLE TEABAG CANTAB NAILS NYT Connections today (game #809) - hint #1 - group hints What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Caught up GREEN: Hot beverage BLUE: Tough stuff PURPLE: As seen on a laptop Need more clues? We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles… NYT Connections today (game #809) - hint #2 - group answers What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: PLACES TO GET TRAPPED GREEN: USED FOR TEA BLUE: ASSOCIATED WITH HARDNESS PURPLE: ENDING WITH KEYBOARD KEYS Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #809) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times) The answers to today's Connections, game #809, are… YELLOW: PLACES TO GET TRAPPED NET, SNARE, TANGLE, WEB GREEN: USED FOR TEA CUP, KETTLE, TEABAG, WATER BLUE: ASSOCIATED WITH HARDNESS DIAMOND, NAILS, ROCK, STEEL PURPLE: ENDING WITH KEYBOARD KEYS CANTAB, CYBERSPACE, ICECAPS, MAKESHIFT My rating: Hard My score: 1 mistake I had an office job once in a team of eight British people and one American and I’ll always remember the latter's irritation after doing a tea run and discovering the many tea-making peccadillos of their co-workers: leave the teabag in, put the milk in first, put the milk in last, stir it five times, make sure you use boiling water, make it the color of terracotta. Frankly, it’s no wonder that coffee has overtaken tea as the UK’s favorite beverage, it’s so much simpler. My personal tea obsession helped me find USED FOR TEA quickly enough, although I did temporarily think we were looking for drums with SNARE, KETTLE and STEEL. My mistake came in thinking that there was a group linked by words for the internet with CYBERSPACE, NET and WEB. I added CANTAB as the fourth
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