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If you are running low on guesses and struggling to come up with the final categories for today’sConnectionspuzzle, you can use these clues to give yourself the mental boost you need to get to the end.Today’s puzzle has some words I was unfamiliar withand others that look deceptively short. With some detective work, I have compiled all of the answers and made some clues for you to use to win the puzzle.
If you want something a little different, you will want to look at theNYT’sLetter Boxedpuzzle. This puzzle has a lot of possible answers,but not all of them are actually valid if you want to solve the puzzle. Luckily, you get as many guesses as you need and the entire day to get the puzzle right, as you may keep trying new solutions over and over again until the day ends. It’s a fun puzzle, and one that is quite challenging as well.
Today’s Connections Category Hints
OCTOBER 21 #498
If you are feeling like it is hard to grab onto the answers for today’s puzzle, there are some good reasons for that.Some of the words are a little obscure, and one word I have not seen in a good long time in this context. Getting a good read on the puzzle can be difficult when this is the case, but with a little work, it can be done.
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After you follow the clues, there is a chance you might still need a few more clues to help you get over the finish line. To that aim, here areall the category nameswhich can often be enough to solve the puzzle.
___POOL
NAVY
PINTO
For me, I solved the purple category first today and then felt stumped about how I missed the “easy” category. Looking around I didn’t see anything that seemed obvious. PINTO I immediately thought of as a horse coat, likely a result of my horse-girl years. I was not aware of MUNG beans, but Ieventually realized that all the other three were types of beansand figured that that must be what they were. On the bright side, I learned something new about beans today.
HOOK
PULL
I was not immediately sure about this category, as I did not think DRAW really belonged here. DRIVE is a possible candidate for this category, and part of me thought REVERSE might be too. However, I thought both of those words might go with NEUTRAL as a car category, which ended up being correct. Before I knew that though, I was debating which word belonged here with the others and eventually guessed that it must be DRAW. I’m not sure I’m happy thatall these words supposedly mean “attract”but they are the best words for it in this puzzle.
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NEUTRAL
REVERSE
This was the last category I guessed, which is odd because it is things I would normally see every day. In fact, I hadDRIVE, NEUTRAL, and REVERSE all selected multiple timesand could not figure out what the last one was. It occurred to me after the fact that neither of my past two cars have had an “L” on the gear shift, and perhaps that is why I forgot about it. Luckily, I also had London Tipton to remind me that there is an L in P-R-N-D-L.
LIVER
WHIRL
I got this one first and funnily enough it was because of WHIRL. I was trying to figure out what WHIRL could be, andall I could come up with was “whirlpool.“Upon seeing that, I also saw DEAD and thought it might not be far off. CAR was next, as my friends and I used to carpool to school many times. When I tried to find the last word, I remembered that Liverpool did exist, and it helped that I had not really looked at KIDNEY at that point in time or I might have second-guessed myself.
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