Today's Connections Answers & Hints For February 22, 2024 (Puzzle #255)

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The next is available to solve and the Thursday word groupings might be fairly difficult to decipher. If you find yourself having trouble with the daily categories one of the better strategies is to take advantage of the 'Shuffle' key the game provides. It's easy to get lost in the closeness of some of the words, seeing patterns that are meant to be seen but used for distraction.

One of the more obvious examples of a distraction technique was the February 7th which used SPONGE, BOB, SQUARE, and PANTS as the first listed words. This is a great distraction to the real answers and a great reason to advocate for the 'Shuffle' button. Use it, and use it often, don't let your brain lock into an incorrect category.

Before ruining your chance to solve today's Connections on your own, we wanted to provide a few hints in the form of today's categories. These are listed from most straightforward to trickiest, based on the game's info page.

Dog Sounds

Department

Origin

Colors With Their First Letters Changed

Still need more help? Today's completely spoiled answers are below:

Dog Sounds

Bark

Growl

Whine

Howl

Nothing too difficult to start out the day, BARK and HOWL were real stand outs and the other two quickly fell into place.

Department

Arm

Branch

Chapter

Wing

BRANCH and the previous categories BARK, as well as ROOT used later, really had us focusing on a 'Tree' category but that was clearly the distraction for today. WING and CHAPTER locked in this category for us and made it our second to last score.

Origin

Cradle

Font

Source

Root

ROOT and SOURCE were the catalyst of this category and FONT was honestly a bit of a guess that worked out.

Colors With Their First Letters Changed

Clue

Frown

Mellow

Preen

Luckily, with any daily game of , you can save the most confusing for last and still score it since they are the only words left and that is exactly what happened with this one for us today. It's hard to imagine we would have scored this win on our own.