Today's Connections Hints & Answers For December 16, 2024 (Puzzle #554)

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If it feels like your mistakes are snowballing in today’s puzzle, there are plenty of ways to use the following hints to help you recover and get to the end.Today felt quite hard to me, despite that it should be easy. I was even right about what I thought some of the categories were to no avail. This is partially due to some of the crossover words and partially due to the fact that some of the words feel quite disconnected from each other when they are supposed to be in the same category.

In the NYT puzzle, players will be using similar strategies to try to solve a 5-letter word. There is a large back catalog of words that have already been used, as well as a list of words that are still available to be used. By employing the right strategies, you can slowly eliminate letters and deduce where each letter is supposed to be. Once you figure it out, you can boast about it to your friends and describe your great victory.

If you need hints from us about how to solve this puzzle, you don’t need to look any further. This puzzle has a lot of variation, and you will need to look for more subtle patterns. The categories felt obvious but confusing at the same time, and you will need to have some specific knowledge in order to fully solve the puzzle.

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 still need a bit of a boost, there are plenty more hints to come. The first set is the category names, which will be followed by full spoilers.

TYPES OF RADIO

KINDS OF PLAY FIGHTS

SNACK CAKES

CLASSIC ROCK STAPLES

TYPES OF RADIO

AM

HAM

SATELLITE

WALKIE-TALKIE

I knew this category likely existed, but I couldn’t figure out what the last word was. It turned out to be HAM, but it took me far too long to come back to that word and guess it. I feel like that has been used in a category before, and I probably missed it that time too. I did have all of the types of radio except for