Today’s Connections Hints & Answers For January 03, 2025 (Puzzle #572)

If you are looking to single out the answers on today’s Connections puzzle, you might need a little help. There are a lot of different things going on in this one, and it is easy to get confused and distracted away from the real answers. A lot of words look like they could go somewhere else, and there were some other hazards in the puzzle as well. This can make for a tough start, but given the right amount of information or hints, you can get this one done fast.

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Today’s Connections Category Hints

JANUARY 03 #572

Figuring out the answers for today’s puzzle might take a few clues. There are a few different words that have a meaning that might make them look like they go together. However, this will not always be the case, and I had some issues with words that I thought I categorized correctly only to learn that I was not close to the right answer at all. With these clues, you should be able to get closer than I was:

• One category is about sub-sections of a certain body part
• One category is about four different slang terms for something you likely see every day
• One category is about four different kinds of the same type of natural item
• One category is about four words following the same word in a phrase – that word is something you can find in a kitchen

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If that is still not enough to get you through to the end of the puzzle, there are still the category names and the spoilers down below to help you out.

	PARTS OF A FOOT
	ONE DOLLAR
	KINDS OF MUSHROOMS
	POT ___

Today’s Connections Answers

JANUARY 03 #572

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

This one was a bit confusing to me. It might be that I hardly ever consider the parts of the foot, and I also completely forgot that several of these words could even be defined as parts of the foot. This is supposed to be the easy category, but it passed me by when I was first trying to solve this one. SOLE is also a sea creature, which is relevant in later categories. HEEL also looked like it might go with some of the other words, which ended up being a recipe for confusion.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

This one I was on the lookout for, but I thought it was a little odd. I knew was SMACKER was (or at least Smackeroo), and BUCK was part of that. However, I didn’t think of SINGLE as a money word, and it had been a long time since I heard CLAM used that way as well. I was very confused about what SMACKER might be in this puzzle if I wasn’t right. The problem was that I was right and just didn’t put the pieces together fast enough. It’s an unfortunately common problem in daily Connections puzzles.

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Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

MOREL and OYSTER were both words I associated much more with the ocean than I did a fungus in the forest. That, and the presence of SOLE and CLAM, made me think they were in a different category. I guessed it and realized that it must not be correct, but then I wasn’t sure what to do with the words that were left. I thought OYSTER and CLAM might be something about things that can open, but there wasn’t much else that could go in that category.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

This last one I don’t think I would have gotten without a lot of help. I wasn’t sure what STICKER was doing in the puzzle, and most of these words were more obscure. It would have taken me a long time to figure out what this category was, but I didn’t get the chance to solve it. I had already run out of guesses before I put any of these words in a category. There are a lot of interesting decisions you have to make in this puzzle, and unfortunately, they caught me out this time.

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Released

June 12, 2023

Developer(s)

The New York Times Company

Publisher(s)

The New York Times Company

ESRB

e

Platform(s)

Web Browser
, Mobile