Today's Connections Hints & Answers For January 26, 2025 (Puzzle #595)

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If you feel the need to farm for clues for today’s puzzle, you are in the right place to get some hints. This puzzle felt a little challenging for me, but I’m also battling bad allergies, so that might be why. Either way, there were uses of some words I was unfamiliar with, and the purple category always likes to mess with people just for the fun of it. However, there are ways to get around the most confusing parts of the puzzle if you know where to look, which is where the handy-dandy tips come in.

If you are looking for a fun puzzle that won’t take a lot of your time, the NYT’s is the perfect quick-fix you’ve been looking for. It is a great version of a traditional puzzle that doesn’t require a whole day to solve.It is the perfect sampler platter, with just enough puzzle to give you a taste, but not enough puzzle to make you throw the newspaper away.

The tricky spots of this puzzle are mostly due to the issues with the purple category making things more difficult than desired. However,there are also some words that I wouldn’t have put in the same category that ended up there anyway, so keep that in mind. Otherwise, here are the usual four clues to help you figure out what words are in which category:

The Tiles game for the New York Times mobile app asks you to use various strategies to pair matching visual patterns together to build huge combos.

If you still need help with the categories,the names of each one are in the box below. If you need help with the answers, the full spoilers are below that.

WAYS TO GET FOOD

KEEP APART

PARTS OF A BIG RIG

DANCE EVENTS PLUS A LETTER

WAYS TO GET FOOD

FARM

FISH

GATHER

HUNT

This category was the first one I got and felt okay once I knew what I was looking for. FARM looks like it could go with other words here, and so did GATHER. However,my archeology senses were tingling when I also saw HUNT, and it felt confirmed once I also saw FISH. It was by no means certain, but it was worth it to give it a shot. Luckily, it paid