Today's Connections Hints & Answers For February 14, 2025 (Puzzle #614)

screenrant.com:

If you are looking for a fun surprise in today’s puzzle, you might not get it but you can get some hints to help you have a fun finish. There are plenty of potential stumbling points here, and at least one of them got me, which you can find out all about below. You can also find a fair number of hints and tricks that will help you discover what you need to get the puzzle right and win the day.

If you are looking for a fun puzzle, the NYT’s game is the way to go. It has some similarities to the puzzle, but I often find it a little easier in that it feels more difficult to make vague and often subconscious connections between words rather than use the known spelling rules to make a word. English is notoriously bad at spelling words, so that is not always true, but generally speaking, it is a little easier and a little faster.

If you are looking for a big hint, you are in the right place. There are some words that would be easy to combine with the wrong ones, and you will have to be able to distinguish between them. There were a few places where I was close to guessing the wrong thing and at least one place where I did. To help you avoid those same pitfalls, here are 4 clues followed by even more clues and spoilers.

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 still need a tip or two, the category names are listed below, as are the spoilers. Most of the confusion in this one comes from putting words in categories that aren’t there, so knowing the names will likely speed you along.

MOLLYCODDLE

THINGS A RATTLESNAKE DOES

WORDS SAID TO AN UNSUSPECTING PERSON

HOMOPHONES OF BODIES OF WATER

MOLLYCODDLE

BABY

HUMOR

INDULGE

PAMPER

This category was not the first one I solved, and I did have a different guess before I got to the correct one. BABY, BAE, and BOO all made me think they could be in a category together as nicknames for a partner, but it was not to be.