Today's Connections Hints & Answers For October 26, 2024 (Puzzle #503)

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If you are struggling to follow the thread on today’s puzzle, then we can help you pull it out and connect the dots. Today’s puzzle was difficult enough that I felt relieved when I got the right answer on the last guess, but not so bad that I started hitting random words to get it over faster. I felt like I had an idea of what should be happening in the puzzle for the majority of the time, but I could have used a few hints to help me out.

If you want to use the new words that teaches you, try the daily puzzle. You will have to figure out what words can be made out of a group of letters, all of which must include the letter in the center honeycomb. This can make it hard to unscramble the puzzle, but there are many more guesses for you to use up than what the puzzles give you so there is no harm in trying.

There are some challenges in this puzzle, which mainly stem from the words with multiple meanings. Many of these look like they could form their own category, but in reality, they are not even in the same one. To work around that, you have to think hard about which categories you see could have four words in them and which do not. To help you decipher that mini-puzzle, here are four clues:

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 are still unsure about what the categories are, you can see the full names of each one in the table below so that you do not have to be frustrated anymore.

FLUSTER

SERIES OF MESSAGES

PLACES TO LIE/SIT THAT MOVE

CYLINDER-SHAPED THINGS

FLUSTER

FAZE

RATTLE

RUFFLE

THROW

This category was an interesting puzzle, as I had a few of these words in other possible groupings at the beginning. RATTLE was with some of the other “baby” items like CRADLE and ROCKER, while THROW was with SWING for a much shorter time as a possible sports category. However, looking at FAZE was what made me rethink all of that and put these four words