Today's Connections Hints & Answers For February 01, 2025 (Puzzle #601)

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If you are struggling to solve today’s puzzle, there are plenty of ways we can help you get through the barrier to success. There are some tricks in this puzzle, but this one felt more straightforward than others recently. However, sometimes simplicity can cause other errors, so it is crucial for you to not relax and take everything at face value, as there are always tricks hiding in plain sight. You can avoid some of these tricks by pulling some of the tricks up your sleeve.

If you are looking for a challenge, the NYT’s puzzle is the way to go. It is difficult but it has an addictive factor as well. Bouncing around the walls just feels fun, and creating a long string of words is satisfying. There are a lot of things that players can do to make it to the end of the puzzle, despite its difficulty. You will have to do several different things all tied up into one to finish the puzzle, but it is a fun challenge to get through.

There are a lot of similar-sounding words in this puzzle, or that’s how it felt as I attempted to solve it. While I found it a little simpler, I also questioned several of my guesses before I submitted them,just because of seeing other words that might change them. However, if you trust your instincts, you should be able to get this one fast.

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 still need some help, there are plenty more clues that can help you solve the puzzle. The most straightforward are thecategory names, which you can see below.

TINT

COMPONENTS OF A MYSTERY

TAKE ISSUE WITH

STRIKE A ___

TINT

HUE

SHADE

TINGE

TONE

This category I actually got later on, but that was because I thought some of the other categories were easier. That is in part due to MATCH, as I thought it was a potential word that could fit here before I knew exactly what the category was. I also wasn’t looking at these words until later, so that was part of