Today's Connections Hints & Answers For October 28, 2024 (Puzzle #505)

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If you are struggling to finish off today’s puzzle, there might be some reasons for that. This puzzle has some shenanigans hidden within it that could make it more difficult, especially if you are not familiar with a category of words within the puzzle. To help you negotiate some of these shenanigans and avoid potential disaster, we have all the hints you need to finish off the puzzle without failing.

Sometimes a puzzle can be too challenging, other times it can be a little too easy. Personally, I find the daily puzzles to be somewhere in the middle with a healthy amount of challenge. It’s on the harder spectrum of the NYT puzzles in that it does not have the same kind of hints or do, but it also has unlimited attempts, making it a bit easier to come to the right conclusion. It also has a nice rhythm once you get used to it, making it a nice challenge to keep your brain healthy.

There are some puzzles that are tricky because of the words they use, while others can stump you because there are multiple different contexts each word can belong to. This puzzle has a combination of both, which can make it hard to get the right categories for the right words. To help you out, we have a few different clues for you that should help you clear the puzzle.

This tricky little five by five crossword isn't always as easy as it looks; here are a couple easy tips and tricks to beat your friends' times!

If you need more help, you can use the following category names to help you uncover the mysteries of this puzzle.

AUDIO APPS

INDICATE

CHURCH OF ENGLAND WEDDING VOW VERBS

MAGIC WORDS

AUDIO APPS

AUDIBLE

PANDORA

SHAZAM

TIDAL

This one and the last category were quite tricky in that SHAZAM is definitely a magic word but it is actually THANK YOU that took its place. I also don’t think it helps that not everyone has or uses these apps regularly. I have not used PANDORA in a very long time, and I was not even aware of TIDAL or SHAZAM. AUDIBLE is harder to get away from, as the ads