NYT Clues and Responses for August 11 Monday Edition
The New York Times' popular puzzle game, Connections, challenges players to think creatively and solve a new puzzle each day. The game resets every night at midnight, offering a varying degree of difficulty.
For today's (August 18, 2025) Connections puzzle, the themes and answers to the four groups are as follows:
- Yellow Group (A good hint)
- CUE
- PROMPT
- SIGN
- NOD
- Green Group (Seize the moment)
- CHANCE
- OPENING
- BREAK
- STOP
- Blue Group (The Hilton offers)
- POOL
- PARKING
- WI-FI
- Purple Group (A small clock)
- WRIST
- DIGITAL
- SHOT
- BREAKFAST
The themes relate to visual or verbal indications, opportunities or moments, hotel amenities/services, and types or parts of watches/timepieces.
To solve the NYT Connections game, players must identify four groups of four words each that share a hidden connection or theme. Good strategies include starting by spotting obvious connections, breaking compound words down into parts, using process of elimination, paying attention to wordplay and less obvious thematic links, and noting the color-coded difficulty of each set.
Players have four mistakes allowed before the game ends, and the game can be played on the New York Times website or through the NYT Games app on iOS or Android. The game is similar in concept to Wordle, allowing players to keep track of their winning streak and compare scores with friends.
So, are you ready to test your brain power and solve today's Connections puzzle? Good luck!
In the realm of technology and gadgets, a small digital wrist device, like a watch, could be a potential connection within the Purple Group. Meanwhile, in the world of entertainment and social-media, a membership or service provided by a hotel could be a link in the Blue Group, such as the hotel's Wi-Fi connection or parking privileges.
