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Instead of getting bingo, you will be looking to create four rows of pastel colors if you win today’sConnectionspuzzle. This can be hard to achieve if you do not know what to look for, andthree of the categories today can be a little hard to differentiateif you are missing vital information. It may take some patience, but you can get through the puzzle if you move with caution instead of too quickly.
If you like playing word games, you might like figuring out thedailyMini Crosswordpuzzle. It has all the fun of the bigger version with the advantage of it being a lot smaller. The puzzle willalways be a 5x5 grid with clues for each column and row. If you manage to work out the right words, you will have a filled-in square with the satisfaction of figuring out what the clues were alluding to.
Today’s Connections Category Hints
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If you want to succeed at today’sConnectionspuzzle, you might need afew hints to help you formulate a successful plan to do so. There are words in every category that could easily be mistaken for another,which can make it easy to just guess one word offand lose the puzzle quickly. To help prevent those wrong guesses, we have some hints for you that should narrow it down. If not, keep scrolling for spoilers.
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If you are here looking for those spoilers, you can find them all below. We will start withgiving you just the category names, before proceeding into all of the answers for each one.
HIGH-END
LUXURY
This was not the first category I got today, mainly because DESIGNER could easily belong with a whole host of words in this puzzle. It took a while for me to parse out what belonged where, but this was the second category I managed to separate out. What helped me do so waslooking at LUXURY and HIGH-END, which in turn led me to HAUTEand eventually back to DESIGNER. While it was difficult, it was not as impossible as it could have felt due to some of the overlapping words in this puzzle.
HATCH
MASTERMIND
Likewise, this was the third category I got, as originally I thought DESIGNER and ENGINEER belonged together, along with MASTERMIND. While I was mostly right, I did have to think about it in a different way to see these as verbs instead of nouns. Once I did, I as able tomake a bigger distinction between these words and similar ones, before adding in CONCOCT and HATCH as the final two additions. DESIGNER was able to be cut due to not being a verb like the rest, which finished off this category.
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VIKING
VOYAGER
My dad would likely get this one before me, as someone who keeps up with NASA much more than I have and for much longer as well. However, I got this one last mainly due to having words like PIONEER and VOYAGER with ENGINEER and DESIGNER at first. Additionally, GALILEO was a name and I thought it might belong with MARCO POLO in a separate category. While there were no other obvious proper names, I thought it could go with VIKING or VOYAGER to talk about people who were leaders in their fields, but itwas actually about spacecraft.
TAG
UNO
As someone who has played most of these games extensively and knows that UNO ends relationships when it becomes too competitive, I actually got this category first. Itwas UNO that clued me in, before I saw BINGO and remembered playing a lot of MARCO POLO in the pool every summer - which turned out to be way more dangerous than it should have been. TAG was the last but by no means least one added in, mainly because it was hiding among much bigger words.
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Finishing up today, there are plenty of other puzzle games for you to try.The Password Gameis one of them, and it is a challenging but rewarding game to experiment with every day.
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Solve a random five-letter word by using color clues.EveryWordleanswercan be found in our daily updated list.
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Crosswordle
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