Today's Connections Hints & Answers For January 17, 2025 (Puzzle #586)

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If you are trying to solve today’s puzzle but are having trouble finishing it,there are hints and tricks that will help you knock it out of the park. There are plenty of problems to uncover in puzzles, and there are some words that might trick you if you aren’t looking closely enough. However, today’s puzzle felt fairly good when I was solving it, and I hope to make it feel that good for you as well.

If you want to feel like you are 7 again, you should try out the NYT’s puzzle. It is just like the word search puzzles you had to solve in elementary school, except there is one issue with it. There is no word list for this one, and the letters can be in every direction. However, you will be given hints as you find other words in the puzzle, and that will give you everything you need to finish up the word search and get the points.

The puzzle today isn’t that bad, as the categories are fairly general knowledge-based. However, some of them might have a little bit of crossover if you don’t catch the right detail. I did make two wrong guesses, so there are some tricks that could still get you. I am here to help you avoid those tricks, and with that here are four clues to get you to the end of the puzzle.

The Spelling Bee puzzles created as a New York Times game build a streak of correct answers to get you more points, but they can be hard to keep.

That may not be enough for you, depending on whether the hints helped or made you more confused. To help you sort them out a little more, there are the category names below.

FRANKFURTER

STRIKE

WEB BROWSERS

ENDING WITH BEER BRANDS

FRANKFURTER

BANGER

BRAT

LINK

SAUSAGE

I got this category pretty quick, as I have lived in several places with a large German population. I do feel like these aren’t really all the same thing, or at least there are small differences between them, but I do get the point. I did have PEPPERONI in here at first because I didn’t see the word LINK. After all, that is also often made with pieces de pork