Today's Connections Hints & Answers For December 30, 2024 (Puzzle #568)

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If you are looking to wrap up today’s puzzle as quickly as possible, you may want to look into these tips and tricks. There are a lot of seemingly disconnected words in this one, with not that much to make players assume they are connected. It might take some specialized knowledge to finish this one off, which is one of the more frustrating types of puzzle when you don’t know. However, these tips might jar your memory enough to help you finish off the puzzle without losing your streak.

If you want something a lot likebut with an extra clue and at a smaller level, you should try out the NYT puzzle. This is one of the most popular NYT puzzles, and it is currently on its 1290th iteration. There are still a fair number of unused 5-letter words, which means there are plenty more puzzles yet to come that you can enjoy solving by deducing where each letter must go.

Hints for this puzzle will either make the puzzle easier or you might still find yourself frustrated. This could be because you already had an inkling as to what the category might be but didn’t know what the final word or two was. There are some words that could be considered more obscure and some that require some pretty specific knowledge. Still, you can try to use these clues before heading into the meat of the spoilers.

The Letter Boxed game for the New York Times mobile app asks you to connect letters to form words while using various strategies to win quickly.

While those hints might not be enough today, there are still plenty of ways we can help you solve the puzzle. Here are all of the category names, followed by the rest of the spoilers.

LUNCH ORDERS

USED TO MAKE COFFEE

PAY, WITH «UP»

NAMES FEATURING "!"

LUNCH ORDERS

CLUB

HERO

MELT

WRAP

There are a lot of different kinds of sandwiches, and these are four that might appear on a local menu quite often. CLUB and WRAP are the most obvious ones here and the ones that clued me in. It wasn’t that hard to add MELT in, but it took me a long time to find