If you are looking for a fast way to finish today’sConnectionspuzzle, there is a perfect way to do so.This one seemed a little intimidating at first glance, but the more I looked at it, the more context clues I began to see. You can get a fast track to these clues as I will have some of them waiting for you down below. Also, below will be thefull category names and answersin case you want to speed things along.
The Password Gamepuzzleis another thing that you can try if you find yourself growing a little bored ofConnections, or if you just want more than one puzzle in your life.And this particular puzzle comes with 15 mini-gamesto keep you well occupied and with plenty of variety to keep the creativity flowing. It’s a very different kind of puzzle, and I find it quite mentally challenging while at the same time being fun to try.
Today’s Connections Category Hints
FEBRUARY 18 #618
This puzzle has a lot of interesting words, and as I said it looked intimidating at first,but I was able to break it down. You will want to pay attention to how the words are written and what their similarities are.This sounds a little ridiculous because that’s always true, but I mean how the words themselves are structured and not necessarily their definitions. To help you out further, here are four clues:
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If you still need some help as you are going through the puzzle, you can get that help bylooking at the category names or the full spoilersdown below.
HOLLOW
PIT
I got this category quite late into the puzzle actually. I think it looks much more obvious now, but between the Substantial category and this one, it felt weird to look between two extremes.It’s one of those puzzles that looks obvious now that you know all the categories and have seen all the answers, but when you first looked at it, you were a little confused. PIT felt like it could go in either place and SQUARE was a little weird to me at first, so I avoided it until I had solved other categories.
NEARBY
READY
I saw this category early on but did not immediately solve it either. In this case, it was because NEARBY did not necessarily sound like it belonged to the other three words. In fact,it feels a lot different from the others in a weird way. I know in theory that it does have a similar meaning, and it should belong here. For whatever reason my brain just does not like its inclusion here, and I will drive myself crazy if I try to solve that particular riddle.
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SOLID
SQUARE
This one I guessed second because despite what I said, seeing HEARTY and FILLING was too much of a coincidence to ignore for long. I was not sure what to do with that information, because again, SOLID and SQUARE did not seem like it felt right.I was very unsure what was going on there at first, but that gave me the incentive to solve it. Once I ensured that none of the British words meant “to be full”, I was able to guess that these had to be the words that belonged here.
FOOTY
TELLY
I got this first, and while I was about to guess all of these words due to their structural nature alone, it was actually because of BUTTY specifically. I looked it up to see if it had a “substantial” meaning that would place it in the other category. So once I saw it was British,I looked at CHIPPY and TELLY and figured that’s what had to be happening. FOOTY made it in over the other two “-y” words because it was the one I had only heard when I was in England.
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Yes
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Very similar toWordle, where players change the number of letters in the word.
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Worldle
Name a country based only on its silhouette, and a few geographical hints.
