If you are struggling to find a respectable answer to today’s puzzle, then you have likely come looking for the hints and tricks you need to win the day. This puzzle has some tricky spaces, particularly with the amount of adjectives and adverbs cluttering up the puzzle. If you need help navigating through this environment, we have everything you need to do so down below with the usual assortment of good times and helpful rhymes.
It’s the day after Christmas and you might be looking to solve a few puzzles in your downtime as you de-stress and wait for the New Year to come around. If you are, you can try the NYT’s puzzle to help you unwind and have some chill puzzling time. There are lots of comforting games out there, but this one is good because there are not that many ways to fail, and you get a warm sense of accomplishment from seeing every pair of tiles melt away.
There are plenty of tricks hiding in this puzzlebut plenty of clues to help them disappear as well. There are two quite tricky categories to separate, but two that should be easier as well. The purple category is interesting today, as it would be more recognizable if the words were changed ever so slightly. With these clues, perhaps you can start to undo the puzzle.
The Password Game can be frustrating as it uses complex mechanics that can be difficult to figure out, even with help.
If these hints are still not doing enough for you, knowing the category names often helps people get the rest of the way there. All four of them are listed in the box below, followed by the full spoilers.
APPROXIMATELY
TREES
SIZABLE, AS AN AMOUNT
U.S. STATE ABBREVIATIONS, PER AP STYLE GUIDE
APPROXIMATELY
ABOUT
AROUND
LIKE
ROUGHLY
This category is one of the harder ones today, mostly due to the blue category being very similar. Both of them are about describing something else, and both of them have very similar word choices. You have to make a judgment call early on this one and hope it's right. Luckily, I had the
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