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If you are struggling to follow the thread on today’sConnectionspuzzle, thenwe can help you pull it out and connect the dots. Today’s puzzle was difficult enough that I felt relieved when I got the right answer on the last guess, but not so bad that I started hitting random words to get it over faster. I felt like I had an idea of what should be happening in the puzzle for the majority of the time, but I could have used a few hints to help me out.
If you want to use the new words thatConnectionsteaches you, try thedailySpelling Beepuzzle. You will have to figure out what words can be made out of a group of letters,all of which must include the letter in the center honeycomb. This can make it hard to unscramble the puzzle, but there are many more guesses for you to use up than what theConnectionspuzzles give you so there is no harm in trying.
Today’s Connections Category Hints
OCTOBER 26 #503
There are some challenges in this puzzle, which mainly stem from the words with multiple meanings. Many of these look like they could form their own category, but in reality, they are not even in the same one. To work around that,you have to think hard about which categories you see could have four wordsin them and which do not. To help you decipher that mini-puzzle, here are four clues:
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If you are still unsure about what the categories are, youcan see the full names of each one in the table belowso that you do not have to be frustrated anymore.
RUFFLE
THROW
This category was an interesting puzzle, as I had a few of these words in other possible groupings at the beginning. RATTLE was with some of the other “baby” items like CRADLE and ROCKER, while THROW was with SWING for a much shorter time as a possible sports category. However,looking at FAZE was what made me rethink all of thatand put these four words together instead. Although, I almost always use faze together with “not” to describe someone remaining calm, and it took me a moment to remember that by itself it means the opposite.
CONVERSATION
THREAD
This was the first category I got today, likely due to my deep immersion into discussion threads for online school. I saw CONVERSATION and CHAT and started looking for other possibilities. I did not see an immediate answer until I saw THREAD andrealized they were talking about a digital conversationas opposed to an in-person one. CHAIN was the last one I added on, which does feel apt in a way, as I was usually the one that ended those email chains that spread like fire in the early 2000s.
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ROCKER
SWING
This one I began suspecting when I saw HAMMOCK and CRADLE, but I mistakingly pivoted to thinking it was things made out of thread. However, there were only a couple of words that could fit that idea, so I moved on to things that hung from something else. This still was not quite enough,as ROCKER was still missing. I gave up on that idea and added in ROCKER more as a hopeful guess than anything else, and fortunately for me, it was correct.
SILO
SPOOL
I had almost all of these words paired off with something else throughout the whole puzzle, and I don’t know that I ever would have put these four together. I always think of ROLLER in the skating sense as well, soeven if I realized that three of these words were the same shape, I would have had a hard time putting the last word in. That did not happen, however, so I am instead able to say, “Phew,” and be glad I finished this puzzle without failing.
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If you want to keep on puzzling and keep your brain healthy, you can try one of the ones listed below.Absurdleis one of my favorites, as you can keep solving puzzles past the daily one and continue on having a good time.
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Absurdle
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