Connections hints, clues and answers on Wednesday, August 20 2025
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Have you been playing Connections, the super fun word game from the New York Times that has people sharing those multi-colored squares on social media like they did with Wordle? It's pretty fun and sometimes very challenging, so we're here to help you out with some clues and the answer for the four categories that you need to know:
1. Spin.
2. Two different colors.
3. Two of something.
4. One of that something.
The answers are below this photo:
1. Things that rotate about a vertical axis
2. Black-and-white things
3. Pairs of rods
4. Rods that curve at one end
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