Connections hints, clues and answers on Friday, August 15 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. Chicken.
2. Think money.
3. "Great!"
4. Food in a shell.
The answers are below this photo:
1. Poultry cuts
2. Handle, as a bill
3. Splendid
4. Starts of culinary nuts
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