If you want to have a breeze getting through today’sConnectionspuzzle, you are unlikely to do so without a little bit of help. This puzzle is quite tricky, andthere are a lot of different possible combinations that will catch you off guard. There are a wide variety of words all with a fair number of meanings, so take advantage of the clues we are offering you to get the puzzle right and finish the game fast.
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Today’s Connections Category Hints
JANUARY 06 #575
Coming up with the categories with nothing to go on can be quite hard. That is why it is nice to have a few hints or clues as to what is going on to help you out.There are a lot of different ways to dissect a puzzle, but having some context is good. That context will help you form a plan and make a strategy to separate out the words and put them together to get the right answers.
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If you are still confused about what the categories might be,you can use the names of each of them in the box belowto figure out the answers.
PANT
PUFF
This category is the one that made sense to me right away, which is normal for the yellow category most days. GASP and HEAVE were what gave it away for me,although it did take me a moment to decide between BREEZE, PANT, and PUFFas these all have air-like connotations. I finally decided that BREEZE was the one that didn’t fit in the most. The BREEZE is more static than a GASP or a HEAVE, or at least it isn’t something that a living being can do in the same way the others are.
GENERAL
UMBRELLA
Perhaps I should have gotten this one from BLANKET and GENERAL, as those are probably the more useful words as hints for this category. However,BROAD is an awful lot like a lot of the words used in the purple categoryand used to describe a particular body part. In fact, it makes more sense to me than several of them. However, I did not notice that they were all missing a component that BROAD still has, and I never came back to this category.
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PICNIC
PIE
This one made more sense and I did in fact have most of these words together fairly early on. I did keep getting “one away” which was annoying, but I liked the word PIE anyway.I also did not read ABC as the individual letters right away, I read it as a prefix along with ARS as well. That was an unfortunate read on the situation, but given how much time I spent learning prefixes from a wide variety of languages, I’m not that surprised that my brain went in that direction as opposed to the more obvious one.
BUT
RUM
This last one I was fairly sure about it, except for that I had BROAD in the list instead, as mentioned earlier. It was unfortunate that I didn’t pick up on the spelling,but BOOT could be in this category as a complete word as wellso I wasn’t looking at that as the distinguishing factor. I also don’t know that I would have thought of RUM(p) on my own, as it’s not a word anyone around me uses.
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