Today's Connections Hints & Answers For November 22, 2024 (Puzzle #530)

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If you feel the need to pick up some slack on your puzzle today, don’t be shy about taking some hints from us. There were some tricky words in this puzzle, but having a better idea of what the categories are and what some hints are for dealing with them will give you a path forward. Don’t wait for the puzzle to tell you you are wrong, instead, beat it the first time through.

If you are hoping to spend a lot more time puzzling today, check out the daily puzzle. It will take more time to solve than some of the NYT ones, and you will have to solve mini-puzzles along the way in order to get to a final answer. Each rule is like its own game, and you will have to figure out how to solve for all of them in order to win the game and get a new password.

Once you have started on a puzzle it can be hard to see the forests for the trees. In this case, the words are the trees and the categories are the forests. Often I find myself staring at the trees and not seeing the bigger picture. If that is you in today’s puzzle, you will want to use a few hints to help you see from a slightly different perspective. That can often make all the difference in the world, and to find that out for yourself, take a look at these clues:

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!

Get any further assistance you need from the following spoilers. You will see the category names first, followed by the answers from each category listed in order.

PUBLICITY

POINT OF VIEW

WORK COMMUNICATION PLATFORMS

"___ ISLAND"

PUBLICITY

ATTENTION

COVERAGE

EXPOSURE

PRESS

This one did feel like the easy category today, which is not always the case. However, today it felt like this category was simply crying for ATTENTION. In some ways this can be good or bad, as often I get very excited that I finished off one category fast, only to get stumped as I look at the remaining words. However, it is still good to get