Each day the board fills with sixteen small words and asks a quiet question: where do they belong together? On August 29, 2025, puzzle #810 of the New York Times game Connections arrived with four hidden threads, a famous person, an increase, places that pump gas, and words that precede the word split. The Economic Times offered its readers a path through the puzzle, first with gentle hints and then with the full answers, a pattern of help that mirrors how people have always learned by being nudged rather than told. Like the calendar itself, the game will reset at midnight and begin again.
NYT Connections Puzzle #810 Hints and Answers for August 29, 2025
Sixteen words, four groups, and four mistakes allowed
Mark
So what's actually in today's puzzle, number 810?
Mimi
Four groups: famous person, increase, places that sell gas, and a blank followed by split. The yellow group is Figure, Name, Personality, and Star.
Mark
And the trickier ones?
Mimi
Purple is 7-10, Banana, Lickety, and Stock, all paired with split. Green is Balloon, Mount, Mushroom, and Wax, all words for increasing.
Luke
Worth noting the overlap. 7-Eleven is a gas seller, but 7-10 is a split. Is that the deliberate trap?
Mimi
It looks like a similar-looking pair, yes, though the article doesn't say the puzzle was designed that way. That's my reading of the board.
Luke
Right, so that's inference. What the source confirms is the groupings and the hints.
Mark
Why do people care enough to search for answers?
Mimi
It resets at midnight like Wordle, and players share results on social media, so there's a daily habit around it.
Luke
The article says it's popular but gives no player numbers. So popularity is asserted, not measured here.
Mark
Anything about who made it?
Mimi
It launched in June 2023, with associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu involved in design and development.
O Pulso
- Sixteen words are tangled together, and players must sort them into four hidden groups before they run out of mistakes.
- Overlapping words like Gulf, Shell, and 7-Eleven tempt players toward the wrong gas station group.
- 7-10 hides in the split category as a bowling term, tripping up anyone who reads it as a store.
- Hints move from broad color-coded nudges to single anchoring words, letting solvers close in on the answer step by step.
- Once the full solutions are revealed, the board is cleared and a fresh set of words waits for the next midnight.
Each day the board fills with sixteen small words and asks a quiet question: where do they belong together? On August 29, 2025, puzzle #810 of the New York Times game Connections arrived with four hidden threads, a famous person, an increase, places that pump gas, and words that precede the word split. The Economic Times offered its readers a path through the puzzle, first with gentle hints and then with the full answers, a pattern of help that mirrors how people have always learned by being nudged rather than told. Like the calendar itself, the game will reset at midnight and begin again.
On August 29, 2025, puzzle #810 of NYT Connections landed with sixteen words and the familiar challenge of sorting them into four groups of four. This time the categories were a famous person, an increase, places that sell gas, and fill-in-the-blank words that precede split.
The Economic Times guided readers in layers. The first hints pointed toward Donald Trump for the easiest yellow group, inflation for green, where you fill your car for blue, and a shared following word for the hardest purple. Then came one anchoring word from each group, Figure, Mount, Gulf, and Stock, enough to steady the board without giving everything away.
The full answers followed: Figure, Name, Personality, and Star for famous people; Balloon, Mount, Mushroom, and Wax for increases; 7-Eleven, Chevron, Gulf, and Shell for gas stations; and 7-10, Banana, Lickety, and Stock for split. The puzzle's bite lies in its overlaps, where Gulf and 7-Eleven look like gas sellers and Mount and Wax only reveal themselves as increases once their neighbors are in view.
Connections, launched by the New York Times in June 2023 with help from associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu, has become a daily ritual in the Games section. Like Wordle, it resets at midnight, and a new set of sixteen words will soon be waiting.
Puzzle #810 of NYT Connections, published for August 29, 2025, hands players sixteen words and one familiar task: sort them into four groups of four. Today's board is built around four categories: a famous person, an increase, places that sell gas, and a fill-in-the-blank phrase ending in the word split.
The Economic Times laid out its guidance in layers, starting with hints. For the yellow group, the easiest, the clue is what you might call Donald Trump. For green, it is how you refer to inflation. Blue points to where you fill up your car. Purple, the hardest, asks for words that share a common word coming after them.
The next layer gives one word from each group. Yellow offers Figure, green offers Mount, blue offers Gulf, and purple offers Stock. Those four are enough to anchor the board without giving everything away.
The full solutions follow. Yellow, the famous-person group, contains Figure, Name, Personality, and Star. Green, the increase group, is made up of Balloon, Mount, Mushroom, and Wax. Blue, the places that sell gas, holds 7-Eleven, Chevron, Gulf, and Shell. Purple, the split group, contains 7-10, Banana, Lickety, and Stock.
The overlaps are where the puzzle bites. Gulf and Shell sit comfortably among the gas sellers, while 7-Eleven fits there too, yet 7-10 belongs to the split group, a bowling reference that sits beside banana split, lickety-split, and stock split. Mount and Wax, meanwhile, are the sort of words that might not read as increases until the other green words are in view.
For anyone new to the game, the Economic Times also recaps the rules. Players connect sixteen words into four themed groups and may make up to four mistakes before the game ends. Correct groups disappear from the board, and a shuffle button helps players see the words fresh. Difficulty is color-coded: yellow is easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple.
The New York Times launched Connections in June 2023, with associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu playing a key role in designing and developing it. It quickly became part of the Times' Games section and is available in browsers and on mobile devices. Players often share their results on social media, and the game has kept growing as part of the paper's daily puzzle lineup.
Like Wordle, Connections resets at midnight, so a new set of sixteen words arrives with the next day's puzzle.
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The yellow group hint was: what you might call Donald Trump.— Economic Times puzzle hints
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