Today's Connections Hints & Answers For February 26, 2025 (Puzzle #626)

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If you are struggling to keep up with the rate of today’s puzzle, we can give you some clues to help you get it faster. This puzzle had a few trip-ups for me, but I was able to get it done a little faster than some others recently. It felt a little easier, but I think that was due to the category choices today, which didn’t feel as hard to me personally as yesterday or the day before. However, because I felt like I understood this one, I can give you some great hints to help you get through it too.

If you want something that will last a little longer, puzzle will keep you busy for hours at a time. It requires you to solve a number of other puzzles,and get the answers right in order to progress in your password-making skills. These puzzles always have a similar premise, but the solutions are wildly different, and it is likely no password is ever the same as others. It’s a fun game to try at least once, and you may like it so much that you never stop playing.

This puzzle doesn’t have a lot of crossover, at least not that I saw right away. It was more about finding enough dots to connect than it was about separating ones that had too many words to fit out. It might take a little bit of time, but nothing too crazy in today’s puzzle. Although we have another big long category name, it still doesn’t quite get to the point the one wrapped around the world did the other day. Here are some clues to get you started:

Strands is one of New York Times' many puzzle games that consists of a unique 6x8 word search that requires players to use zig-zag solutions.

If you still need some pointers on this puzzle, I have everything you need in the boxes below. First come the category names, and second come the spoilers.

EXPENDITURE

ONETIME

MADE WITH HORIZONTAL LINES

SIMPSON FAMILY MEMBERS WITH FIRST LETTER CHANGED

EXPENDITURE

CHARGE

COST

PRICE

RATE

This was the second category I figured out today, and it felt pretty good. There weren’t really any other money terms, so I didn’t