Today’sConnectionspuzzle felt a little on the more difficult side to me, although not the hardest puzzle I have faced. One of the last categories had me a little confused, and I was trying to work through it to no avail. There are also the usual shenanigans andeven the easy category had a word I don’t think I would normally have thought of, so to help you succeed where I struggled, here are some hints to help you out.
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Today’s Connections Category Hints
DECEMBER 22 #560
If you need some help searching for the right answers to today’s puzzle, we have you covered with a fair number of hints for you to use. There are some words that belong together in the same categorythat you have to pay attention to something other than the definition to understand, as well as a couple of words that could belong in another category. However, paying attention to the details there as well may help you avoid the mistakes I made.
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If these hints were not enough for you to solve the puzzle on their own, there aremore tips in the form of category nameswaiting below.
DOME
SKULL
This category does have some challenges, which may not be as hard for you if you use some of these terms more than I do. I don’t use COCONUT as slang for the head very often, if ever, although I do occasionally just use “nut.”DOME and SKULL make the most sense to me, and while I do know of the use of CROWN to mean head, I also thought it might belong with the other TV shows in the puzzle before I narrowed down what genre it was.
NUN
STATS
This category feels pretty tricky for just being the green category, and hard to spot if you aren’t specifically looking for it. I also forget that palindromes are even a thing sometimes, as it doesn’t feel like that important of an idea to remember until it comes back to bite me in aConnectionspuzzle.ABBA is probably the easiest for me to see, although it is a name that might get it confused with the last category. STATS is not a word as much as an abbreviation, which is another factor in how tricky this category is.
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KOJAK
MONK
This one was hard just because of some of the names in the other one also being part of the same genre, as well as other names and television shows in the puzzle as a whole.I had a good idea that ELEMENTARY and MONK would go together, and after figuring out what KOJAK was I thought it would belong here as well. ABBOT, however, felt like it might go here and so did BONES and figuring out which one was which was a little harder than it should have been, given that ABBOT is not a full title like the others are.
KEY
LAUREL
This one was just a bunch of names, but half of them do not look like names. That is what makes this one harder than it should be given what I know now.This is especially true given that there are at least three other names in the puzzleand that these ones are not as obvious. However, with the mistakes I made you are able to get the puzzle finished without losing your streak, which is all that mattered.
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