Today's Connections Hints & Answers For February 02, 2025 (Puzzle #602)

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If you are struggling to solve today’s puzzle, there may be a good reason why. Any puzzle can have one too many tricks for players to solve, or to at least make it much harder and more difficult to do so. However, those same tricks sometimes reveal clues as to what the real categories are. That being said, sometimes you just reach a category that you don’t know enough about to solve it, making it feel impossible. This could be the case for you today, and if it is, we have all the clues you need to win.

If you want a simple but still familiar puzzle, the NYT’s puzzle is a great one to try to solve every day. The puzzle has around the same difficulty as a traditional version, but due to its size it is much faster to solve. It is always a 5x5 size, meaning that the words can only be so long and that also can narrow down the choices you need to make. Either way, it is a fun puzzle and one that makes it worth the time to solve it.

This puzzle has some tricky spots, and I myself had to look up a word just to see what it meant before I could attempt to solve the rest of the puzzle. Sometimes just knowing a definition can change your puzzling time for the better. This puzzle has a few words like that, and knowing some context will be very important for figuring out the rest of the puzzle. Here are four clues to help you solve the puzzle:

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 some hints, the category names might just clear everything up for you. Keep going after that to see the spoilers.

DEJECTED

BIRDS THAT ARE VERBS

TV COMEDY FAMILIES

WORDS AFTER «K»

DEJECTED

BLUE

DOWN

HANGDOG

SORRY

This first category is one I got after I looked up what HANGDOG was supposed to mean. I had no idea, but after seeing the meaningI was able to connect it to DOWN and SORRY. I was a little confused about the rest of the words, but then I saw BLUE and I figured