Today's Connections Hints and Answers for December 22, 2024 (Puzzle #560)

Today Connections The puzzle seemed a little harder to me, although it's not the hardest puzzle I've ever tackled. One of the last categories left me a little confused and I tried to solve it without success. There are also the usual pranks and Even the easy category had a word I normally wouldn't have thought ofSo to help you succeed where I struggled, here are some tips to help you.

If you're looking for something nostalgic, try NYT's The wires puzzle. It's a new, modern take on the classic word search, with a bit more of a challenge than the ones you might have completed as a kid. Those word searches do not have a list of the words you are looking forbut you need to find them yourself and it can be a word or phrase. However, every word you find that is not part of the puzzle will give you a hint to victory.

Today's Connections Category Tips

DECEMBER 22 #560

If you need help finding the right answers to today's puzzle, we have a good number of hints for you to use. There are some words that belong together in the same category that you have to pay attention to something other than the definition to understandas well as some words that could belong to another category. However, also paying attention to details can help you avoid the mistakes I made.

• A category is about different words all used to refer to the same part of the body
• A category consists of four words that share a common characteristic but not a definition
• A category consists of four different pieces of media of the same genre
• A category consists of four people who are part of something else

If these tips weren't enough for you to solve the puzzle yourself, there are more tips in the form of category names waiting below.

	SLANG FOR HEAD
	PALINDRÔMAS
	POLICE PROCEDURES
	FIRST IN A COMEDY DUO

Today's Connections Answers

DECEMBER 22 #560

Yellow Answers: Revealed and Explained

This category has some challenges, which may not be as difficult for you if you use some of these terms more than I do. I don’t use COCONUT as slang for head very often, if ever, although I occasionally just use “nut.” DOME and SKULL make more sense to meand while I know of the use of CROWN to mean head, I also thought it might belong to other TV shows in the puzzle before nailing down the genre.

Green Answers: Revealed and Explained

This category seems quite complicated as it is just the green category and difficult to spot if you are not specifically looking for it. I also forget that palindromes are sometimes a thing, since it doesn't seem like that important an idea to remember until it comes back to bite me in one. Connections puzzle. ABBA is probably the easiest for me to watchalthough it is a name that can be confused with the last category. STATS is not so much a word as it is an abbreviation, which is another factor that explains how complicated this category is.

Blue Answers: Revealed and Explained

This one was difficult just because some of the other names were also part of the same genre, as were other names and television shows in the puzzle as a whole. I had a good idea that ELEMENTARY and MONK would go togetherand after finding out what KOJAK was, I thought it belonged here too. ABBOT, however, felt like it could go this far, just like BONES, and figuring out which one was a little more difficult than it should have been, seeing as ABBOT isn't a full title like the others.

Purple Answers: Revealed and Explained

This was just a bunch of names, but half of them don't look like names. That's what makes this one harder than it should be, given what I know now. This is especially true considering there are at least three other names in the puzzle. and that these are not so obvious. However, with the mistakes I made you can finish the puzzle without losing the sequence, which is all that matters.

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