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If you want your score a win inConnectionstoday, you’re going to need a little extra help. These puzzles do their best to keep the real answers secret, giving you false clues and making you think you are wrong. Your score will dwindle if you guess wrong, so check out some tips and tricks to keep you afloat.
The first NYT puzzle to take the world by storm was thedailyWordlepuzzle, which asks you to use the same logic as you do inConnections.The main difference is thatWordleasks you to do so with smaller building blocks. You areattempting to put letters together to form a wordinstead of putting words together to form a category. Both, however, will test your dictionary knowledge quite a lot.
Today’s Connections Category Hints
SEPTEMBER 15 #461
To avoid losing inConnections, you will have to figure out what kind of categories you are working with. That is the first step, and as such, our first clue for you is actually four different clues about each of the categories.
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After you attempt to parse out those clues in reference to the puzzle, if you still find yourself needing a nudge, all category names are listed below:
LIVE
STAY
This one was a little easier today, as none of the other words seemed to have the same connotation. All of these words I felt were safe enough to guesstogether as residing somewhere. DWELL is perhaps the biggest potential false trail here, as there are three other words with the “DW” beginning. This could be a category in other circumstances, but it is not in this particular circumstance.
DWINDLE
EBB
There is a fairly good theme here, with one of those DW words in here as well in the form of DWINDLE. DECLINE, DROP, and EBB all felt very similarly to me, with EBB being perhaps the least similar. It’s more of apotential flow than it is a full decrease, but it was enough to make me guess this one. Plus, it is nice that we got both EBB and SEA in this puzzle. I am a big fan of strong theming.
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SAP
TURKEY
This one was a little tricky - there’s another one of the DW words to trip you up, as well as one word that is not as known as the others. While three of these are fairly well-used as referencing aperson who is a type of doofus in pop culture, SAP is not as often used.
Some of these words are slightly more insulting than others, so, maybe don’t go around calling people these names.
SIN
WONDER
I got to this category last and did not think much about it, just clicked all the words and submitted my guess. However, looking back on it now it actually makes a lot of sense and maybe I should have clocked this one. All of these arefairly popular groups of seven, and it feels a little easier than other purple categories. Of course, you have the last DW word here as well, so there are still some tricky bits, but avoiding those will help.
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Once you have figured out the puzzle, you might want to try a new one. In that case, here are several new puzzles to try:
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