Today's Connections Hints & Answers For December 05, 2024 (Puzzle #543)

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If you are sticking your nose into today’s puzzle, you might find you feel like you are in a little too deep. There are a lot of different possible categories and some of the words are referencing something that is not in the common knowledge the same way its peers are. Particularly when I thought it was referencing one semi-obscure thing, only to find out it has a different bit of obscurity to it that I was unaware of. To avoid these pitfalls, check out the hints below.

If you are looking for something a little more mindless that can help you wind down, you should check out the NYT’s puzzle. It is kind of like and has the same gameplay loop to it, but it usually has different images and patterns every day. This makes it a little new but keeps the same kind of energy that allows you to do just enough thinking to make the matches happen without keeping you wide awake.

If you are looking for hints on today’s puzzle, you will want to examine each word quite closely. In this case, not all of them should be taken at face value, and you should think about any associations they might have. Once you do, you might find the puzzle a little easier. Additionally, there are a few false categories hidden in there, and I barely scraped a win for this one because of that.

Wordle, the popular word-guessing game hosted by The New York Times, has over 1,700 words remaining as possible solutions.

Once you have finished up re-examining the puzzle, you can keep scrolling to find more hints in the form of category names if you need more assistance.

APTITUDE

EXTERIOR

TECH COMPANIES

___STONE

APTITUDE

FLAIR

GIFT

INSTINCT

NOSE

If you are a natural at something you have a GIFT for it, or any of the other three words above. I have definitely seen similar categories with a similar set of words in the past six or seven months that I have been doing this, so it’s interesting that they keep coming back to it. I suppose there is a finite number of words, all told. However, it did take me a