Today's Connections Hints & Answers For January 03, 2025 (Puzzle #572)

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If you are looking to single out the answers on today’s puzzle, you might need a little help. There are a lot of different things going on in this one, and it is easy to get confused and distracted away from the real answers.A lot of words look like they could go somewhere else, and there were some other hazards in the puzzle as well. This can make for a tough start, but given the right amount of information or hints, you can get this one done fast.

If you want to try out a different kind of puzzle, you should try Agarwal’s . It can be frustrating, but with a couple of attempts, you will start to get the pattern down and understand how the puzzle works. There are 15 different rules you will have to follow in order to solve it, and that can take a long time when you are still determining what’s going on. However, eventually, you will get into the groove and be able to solve it fast.

Figuring out the answers for today’s puzzle might take a few clues. There are a few different words that have a meaning that might make them look like they go together. However, this will not always be the case, and I had some issues with words that I thought I categorized correctly only to learn that I was not close to the right answer at all. With these clues, you should be able to get closer than I was:

Strands is one of New York Times' many puzzle games that consists of a unique 6x8 word search that requires players to use zig-zag solutions.

If that is still not enough to get you through to the end of the puzzle, there are still the category names and the spoilers down below to help you out.

PARTS OF A FOOT

ONE DOLLAR

KINDS OF MUSHROOMS

POT ___

PARTS OF A FOOT

ARCH

BALL

HEEL

SOLE

This one was a bit confusing to me. It might be that I hardly ever consider the parts of the foot, and I also completely forgot that several of these words could even be defined as parts of the foot. This is supposed to be the easy category, but it passed me by when I was first trying to solve this