Today's Connections Hints & Answers For January 31, 2025 (Puzzle #600)

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If you do not yet consider yourself a snob, then you might need to get a few hints and tricks in order to solve today’s puzzle. There are a lot of possibilities and a lot of ways the editors try to trick you, which can make each puzzle different and difficult in its own way. However, once you do start to play it more often, you will find yourself slowly getting to know the puzzle and can start seeing some of those patterns for yourself.

If you are looking for a similar puzzle with a different premise, you will want to try the NYT’s puzzle. It seems like it has the same strategies, but it is actually quite different, with a different number of possible mistakes,and you will need the opposite kind of logic in order to solve this one. Instead of separating and breaking things down, you will be trying to build a word up. However, the feeling you get while solving it feels the same, despite the differences.

The clues for this puzzle are a little different. Lately, many of the categories haven’t been connected by definition, but rather by being part of a general theme. However, today seems like it is a bit of a return to form, so you can have that hint for free. You can also have another four hints for free, which should help you figure out what the differences between the categories 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 you are still struggling to figure out what words are in what categories, you might want another hint. What I have are the category names, which give you a great starting point to leap off of.

STORAGE CONTAINERS

SCHNOZZ

ONES WITH DISCERNING TASTES

STARTS OF SWIMMING STROKES

STORAGE CONTAINERS

CASE

CHEST

CRATE

TRUNK

This category I actually got fairly late into the puzzle, but not necessarily because it was difficult. I had been focused on the next two categories, and it was more due to that that I didn’t notice these. I did have