Today's Connections Hints & Answers For January 02, 2024 (Puzzle #571)

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If you are struggling to clock today’s puzzle, you will need to get a few hints and tricks to finish it off. Today felt a little more on the difficult side than the last two days for me personally, although that is most certainly not the universal experience. Every puzzle is likely difficult in different ways for different people, but if you also found this puzzle difficult like I did, you can use these hints I have laid out to get the right answers.

If you are looking for a new puzzle that doesn’t involve any frustrating wordplay, you might want to try the NYT puzzle. It’s a nice change of pace from the other word puzzles, with a light-hearted puzzle to solve and a bunch of different layers to go through. It is primarily a matching game, where you can pair pieces together to create a long streak to get a higher amount of points. And at the end, you get a very nice celebration scene to help them out.

If you need help on today’s puzzle, I wouldn’t blame you as I wished I had a little help as well. There are words in this puzzle that don’t seem to make sense or go together, and other words that seem like they should go together, but they don’t. Several times I thought I had a correct answer and didn’t even get a “one away” when it failed. Because of that, here are several clues to help you out:

Four categories with four words each sounds simple, but the daily challenge of the Connections game can prove difficult without a few tips to help.

If you want more help on today’s puzzle, you will be looking to find the category names. If you need more help than that, the full spoilers will be further below.

PERCEIVE

CADENCE

ONE IN A GROUP OF TWELVE

DOG ___

PERCEIVE

CATCH

CLOCK

NOTICE

REGISTER

I was close to this category, and I had several guesses that involved two or more of these words. I eventually moved on and never came back to it, but TAG and METER were other words I considered being here. At the time, I was focused on NOTICE and REGISTER and those words by