Today's Connections Hints & Answers For January 06, 2025 (Puzzle #575)

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If you want to have a breeze getting through today’s puzzle, you are unlikely to do so without a little bit of help. This puzzle is quite tricky, and there are a lot of different possible combinations that will catch you off guard. There are a wide variety of words all with a fair number of meanings, so take advantage of the clues we are offering you to get the puzzle right and finish the game fast.

There are more puzzles out there that are quite similar, one of which is the NYT puzzle. It is a challenging game to play, but one that offers a lot of fun. Once you get the hang of it, you will be creating word chains around the box in no time. The fun with this puzzle is the way you bounce from letter to letter and word to word. Eventually, you will end up at the end with a good chain and a big streak to boast about to your friends.

Coming up with the categories with nothing to go on can be quite hard. That is why it is nice to have a few hints or clues as to what is going on to help you out. There are a lot of different ways to dissect a puzzle, but having some context is good. That context will help you form a plan and make a strategy to separate out the words and put them together to get the right answers.

This tricky little five by five crossword isn't always as easy as it looks; here are a couple easy tips and tricks to beat your friends' times!

If you are still confused about what the categories might be, you can use the names of each of them in the box below to figure out the answers.

BREATHE HARD

CATCHALL

METAPHORS FOR EASY THINGS

SYNONYMS FOR REAR MINUS LAST LETTER

BREATHE HARD

GASP

HEAVE

PANT

PUFF

This category is the one that made sense to me right away, which is normal for the yellow category most days. GASP and HEAVE were what gave it away for me, although it did take me a moment to decide between BREEZE, PANT, and PUFF as these all have air-like connotations. I finally decided that BREEZE was the one that didn’t fit in the most. The BREEZE is