Today's Connections Hints & Answers For November 16, 2024 (Puzzle #524)

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If you are struggling to put a wrap on today’s puzzle, we have everything you need to get you out of the rut. There are some words that have an obscure meaning in this puzzle, along with enough potential crossover words to make you scratch your noggin’. To get out of the rut and back onto your feet with this puzzle, you will want to make sure you know what the categories are and how to navigate them.

If you are looking for a different type of puzzle with a lot of the same kind of feeling, the daily puzzle might be the one for you. It is based on guessing words by eliminating letters from the available options. Additionally, you will have to decide where certain letters go in order to figure out what the word is in as few guesses as possible.

This puzzle has a few interesting choices and words that do not go where you think they probably should. My main issue when solving this puzzle was trying to figure out what alternative meanings certain words might have, but someone more familiar with the terms in the puzzle might have a much easier time. Either way, to help you out and get you closer to victory, here are a few clues for your perusal:

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 are still unsure, you can check out the following category names to help you get going again.

THINGS THAT PREVENT LEAKS

KINDS OF HATS

COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM MEMBERS

GO ___

THINGS THAT PREVENT LEAKS

CAP

COVER

PLUG

SEAL

This one is a bit tricky depending on how close you are paying attention. If you already suspect that “hats” might be a category, then you might have dismissed CAP or put it in another category. There is also a loose association of military terms like CAP, SEAL, and BERET that could make you lose a few guesses there. COVER and PLUG are your best bets for getting the right category first, at which point CAP and SEAL are the only ones left that make sense.

KINDS