Today's Connections Hints & Answers For January 05, 2025 (Puzzle #574)

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If you are looking to net a victory on today’s puzzle, there are plenty of ways these clues can help you get it. Today’s puzzle has a set of words that look like something they aren’t, and there is a mix of other conditions that can make it difficult as well. However, there are a lot of details that can help you solve the puzzle once you spot them, so we have compiled a list of those details as clues for you to use.

If you are looking for a different puzzle to try out, you should play the NYT’s puzzle. It is very similar to the puzzle, but it wants you to solve for a single word rather than put groups of them together. You also have slightly more chances with the Wordle puzzle, as it gives you 6 attempts instead of 4. You also get slightly more hints in the form of knowing what letters are incorrect when you guess them, which helps you solve the word quite quickly.

Clues can sometimes be hard to come by in a typical puzzle, with a lot of red herrings and words placed to make you think of something other than what you are looking for. There are lots of possibilities, and almost all words can be connected to each other given the chance. However, those details mentioned earlier can help you sort the right words into the right categories, and here they are:

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.

If those are still not enough for you today, there are still more details to come. Those details are the category names and the spoilers to come after.

HARDLY BUSTLING

EARN

REMOTE CONTROL FUNCTIONS

WORDS BEFORE «DRUM»

HARDLY BUSTLING

CALM

QUIET

SLEEPY

SLOW

This category was a little tricky, but not too tricky. SLOW is one of the words that I thought might go elsewhere. There was an interesting fake category with some of the other words that I thought might be a group of road signs. However, once I dismissed that it was a matter of figuring out what else SLOW could go