Today's Connections Hints & Answers For January 16, 2025 (Puzzle #585)

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If you are hoping to finish today’s puzzle quickly, you will want to embark on a quest to find some hints sooner rather than later. This puzzle was not overly difficult, but as usual, there are tricky spots no matter the ease of the puzzle. With the right hints about what is going on in the puzzle, you can navigate any tricky spots and overcome the difficulties without growing frustrated. It is often nerve-wracking when you are on the last guess and have more than one category to go, but these hints can help you avoid that.

If you want to play a more complex and involved game, puzzle will have you create a new password that is unbreakable. This will be done by giving you 15 different mini-puzzles that you will have to solve and put together, adhering to each one at the same time, until you have a series of letters, numbers, and characters that no one will be able to untangle.

This puzzle has a lot of different words, and some of them don’t have similar meanings but are connected in different ways. That always makes it a little harder to guess what words belong in the different categories. However, a little bit of context goes a long way, and that is exactly what these clues are going to give you. Sometimes all it takes is the right nudge, which is what these clues are meant to do:

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 you still need more to go on, the category names are sure to give you a bigger nudge toward the end of the puzzle. If you want to skip that and go for the answers straight away, you can keep scrolling.

BUYING AND SELLING

INSTALLED ON A WALL

SPY

___RAT

BUYING AND SELLING

BUSINESS

COMMERCE

MARKET

TRADE

This category felt the most obvious today, as all of these are fairly common and used to describe exactly what the category says nearly every day. They also all mean close to the same thing, making it easier to guess that they go together. So