Connections first launched on the New York Times in June 2023. The premise is deceptively simple: Players have to find the thematic connection of four groups of four words ... without making more than four mistakes. Today’s Connections has categories about birds, bites and more.

If you’re looking for the Connections answer for Sunday, August 17, 2025, read on—I’ll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solutions to all four categories. Along the way, I’ll explain the meanings of the trickier words and we’ll learn how everything fits together.