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Today’s Connections Category Hints
DECEMBER 21 #559
If you need some hints about today’s puzzle we have all the ones you need to keep you from losing out.Today’s puzzle has some odd words, like O, thrown in that make deciphering what the categories are a little harder. To help you do this, we have the following category hints for you to use to make sense of the puzzle.
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If you still need help figuring out these categories, there is something else you can use to help you decipher the rest of the puzzle.The category names tend to be a big hint toward deciphering the puzzle, and they are found in the box below.
HOOP
RING
This category was fairly easy to get once I noticed CIRCLE and HOOP. RING was easy to add in, but finding and adding in BAND was a little harder. I thought O might belong here, but I was not sure until I tried it and was proven wrong. I thinkit’s a bit of a shame it doesn’t belong here as it is as much of a loopas anything can be. Alas, it is not going to be in this category today.
PAN
POT
I don’t really consider a CASSEROLE a cooking vessel. I think of it more as adish in the square-shaped pan, but I suppose it works well enough. It was a little difficult to get this one done, but nothing too crazy. Once I got the sense of it, there wasn’t anything else that really fit into a cooking theme. So, whether CASSEROLE counted as a vessel or not, it got thrown in there because nothing else could be.
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MURPHY
SLEIGH
This one was difficult at first, as MURPHY looks like a name and GROUCH was the only other obvious name.SLEIGH also doesn’t seem like a bed, but luckily BUNK did. Between BUNK and CANOPY I was able to get in the right area and I remembered that MURPHY is a particular type of bed. SLEIGH was the last one in, but at this point I was pretty sure it wasn’t a BALONEY bed.
O
STATUETTE
This one was difficult to figure out at first, but by the time I got here, I wasseriously wondering what connected these four words. BALONEY isn’t really called Oscar - or at least I’ve never heard anyone call it by the brand name. I don’t think it would be easy to get this one without coming to it last. Oscar the GROUCH is the easiest one to figure out, and you might be able to get the rest from there. O at least makes sense, but doesn’t feel like that’s what someone would automatically think.
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