Today's Connections Hints & Answers For October 22, 2024 (Puzzle #499)

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Instead of getting bingo, you will be looking to create four rows of pastel colors if you win today’s puzzle. This can be hard to achieve if you do not know what to look for, and three of the categories today can be a little hard to differentiate if you are missing vital information. It may take some patience, but you can get through the puzzle if you move with caution instead of too quickly.

If you like playing word games, you might like figuring out the daily puzzle. It has all the fun of the bigger version with the advantage of it being a lot smaller. The puzzle will always be a 5x5 grid with clues for each column and row. If you manage to work out the right words, you will have a filled-in square with the satisfaction of figuring out what the clues were alluding to.

If you want to succeed at today’s puzzle, you might need a few hints to help you formulate a successful plan to do so. There are words in every category that could easily be mistaken for another, which can make it easy to just guess one word off and lose the puzzle quickly. To help prevent those wrong guesses, we have some hints for you that should narrow it down. If not, keep scrolling for spoilers.

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 are here looking for those spoilers, you can find them all below. We will start withgiving you just the category names, before proceeding into all of the answers for each one.

BRAND-NAME

DEVISE

NASA SPACECRAFT

GAMES WHERE YOU SAY THE GAME'S NAME

BRAND-NAME

DESIGNER

HAUTE

HIGH-END

LUXURY

This was not the first category I got today, mainly because DESIGNER could easily belong with a whole host of words in this puzzle. It took a while for me to parse out what belonged where, but this was the second category I managed to separate out. What helped me do so was looking at LUXURY and HIGH-END, which in turn led me to HAUTE and eventually back to DESIGNER.