If you are looking for a fun surprise in today’sConnectionspuzzle, you might not get it but you can get some hints to help you have a fun finish.There are plenty of potential stumbling points here, and at least one of them got me, which you can find out all about below. You can also find a fair number of hints and tricks that will help you discover what you need to get the puzzle right and win the day.
If you are looking for a fun puzzle, theNYT’sWordlegameis the way to go. It has some similarities to theConnectionspuzzle, but I often find it a little easier in thatit feels more difficult to make vague and often subconscious connections between words rather than use the known spelling rules to make a word. English is notoriously bad at spelling words, so that is not always true, but generally speaking, it is a little easier and a little faster.
Today’s Connections Category Hints
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If you are looking for a big hint, you are in the right place. There are some words that would be easy to combine with the wrong ones, and you will have to be able to distinguish between them. There were a few places where I was close to guessing the wrong thing andat least one place where I did. To help you avoid those same pitfalls, here are 4 clues followed by even more clues and spoilers.
12 Letter Boxed Strategies To Win Quickly
The Letter Boxed game for the New York Times mobile app asks you to connect letters to form words while using various strategies to win quickly.
If you still need a tip or two,the category names are listed below, as are the spoilers. Most of the confusion in this one comes from putting words in categories that aren’t there, so knowing the names will likely speed you along.
INDULGE
PAMPER
This category was not the first one I solved, and I did have a different guess before I got to the correct one. BABY, BAE, and BOO all made me think they could be in a category together as nicknames for a partner, but it was not to be. However, once I came back to this one,I saw INDULGE and PAMPER and was able to begin connecting the dots. I eventually found the rest of the words, and I was able to get this one, having only gotten one wrong guess.
SHED
SLITHER
This is the first category I got, as after BABY didn’t go with the others, I thought about putting it with RATTLE. However, once I was focused on RATTLE, I started looking at all the other words like HISS and SLITHER,and it seemed like BABY probably wouldn’t go here anymore. At least, I hope a BABY doesn’t start displaying these traits. If it does, maybe something should be done about it, but I figured it was more likely to be a snake and threw in SHED, and, luckily, it was correct.
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The Tiles game for the New York Times mobile app asks you to use various strategies to pair matching visual patterns together to build huge combos.
GUESS WHO
SURPRISE
This category gave me a small amount of flashback trauma. I do not like a SURPRISE, particularly when people are yelling it at me. Although,sometimes it is much more frightening when you are surprised if they don’t say anything, so it’s up in the air. GUESS WHO is a little cuter and less scary, but I also mainly associate it with that particular run ofScooby-Doo, which I will likely be going to watch now that I’ve thought about it. There are a lot of unsuspecting and surprised people in that one.
SEE
STRAIGHT
This one has a lot of words in it that could trip you up, as they were the words I kept trying to insert somewhere else and failed to. CREAK, for instance,I might have put with HISS and RATTLE just as noises that are made. SEE was one that I wasn’t sure about, but I did keep adding and then taking it away. BAE is the most obvious one that could go elsewhere, at least to me, leaving STRAIGHT by its lonesome if you were placing these words elsewhere.
Other Games Like Connections
If you need more puzzling time, there are plenty ofgames left in the boxbelow.
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Wordle(NYT)
Solve a random five-letter word by using color clues.EveryWordleanswercan be found in our daily updated list.
Yes
Hello Wordl
Very similar toWordle, where players change the number of letters in the word.
The Password Game
Create a password in this ever-changing, not-so-simple game. you may find somehelpful tips in ourPassword Gameguide.
Worldle
Name a country based only on its silhouette, and a few geographical hints.
