Today's Connections Hints & Answers For January 01, 2024 (Puzzle #570)

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It’s a brand new year and with it came a brand new puzzle. Today’s puzzle is a nice one to start out with and at a sort of middle ground difficulty-wise.It’s good to start out with a streak in the new year, so you may need a few clues to help you start the year off on a good foot. Luckily, there is not much you have to worry about with this puzzle, and with just a few clues you’ll be off to the races.

If you are looking for a different puzzle to try this year, the NYT puzzle is a fun game that takes the best parts of the traditional newspaper puzzle and condenses them into something smaller. It’s short and sweet, with the right amount of challenge to get the brain going without taking a good part of the day to finish. There are plenty of other puzzle options out there, but this is one that won’t take a ton of time and gives you that pleased feeling when it’s finished.

The categories today have an interesting mix, and some of the words could easily be confused and end up somewhere else. However, some of the other words are fun and go with the theme of the holiday. It can give you conflicting feelings and that can make it hard to solve the puzzle. However, a few clues can be all it takes to change that.

The Tiles game for the New York Times mobile app asks you to use various strategies to pair matching visual patterns together to build huge combos.

If you want a little more help on today’s puzzle, there are more ways we can give that to you. We will start with the category names and then the full spoilers.

SLIMY ANIMALS

THINGS THAT LUMINESCE

DUTCH SYMBOLS

ENDING WITH SYNONYMS FOR «PLUNGE»

SLIMY ANIMALS

EARTHWORM

EEL

SALAMANDER

SLUG

This category was fairly easy and kind of funny once I realized what was going on. EARTHWORM is unique enough to catch my attention very quickly, and I saw SALAMANDER soon after. SLUG was fairly easy to add in as well, but for some reason, my brain just didn’t see the word EEL for a minute. Once it did, I was able to put the whole