Today's Connections Hints & Answers For December 18, 2024 (Puzzle #556)

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If your experience with today’s puzzle is growing sour, you may want to take a step back, refresh, and come back to it with new eyes. That will allow you to uncover the rest of the puzzle’s secrets and unravel it completely. However, you may need a little help, particularly with the last two categories today, and to help you out, you can use these hints to get you from slightly frustrated to winning with confidence.

Sometimescan feel difficult and as if you do not understand the right connotations to the puzzle. However, if you want a puzzle that can still make you think without some of those difficulties, you should check out the NYT’s puzzle. It will still present some difficulty, but it is a free and bite-sized version of the traditional newspaper puzzle, and players will enjoy having a great time as they seek to overcome it. It is not so difficult that you cannot solve it, nor so big that it takes all day.

If you want some hints for today’s puzzle, it is quite understandable. There are many different problems with any given puzzle that players must solve in order to succeed. Sometimes, that just amounts to figuring out what each individual word actually means. To discover what this puzzle is hiding, you will want to pay quite close attention to some of the lesser-known words.

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

If you still need some help solving today’s puzzle, there are a few more hints to come. These hints take the form of category names, which are often all you need to finish solving a puzzle. To get the full spoilers, keep scrolling to the “Answers” section.

DEAL WITH

STYLES OF BEER

INVESTMENT VERBS

___ DOME

DEAL WITH

FIELD

HANDLE

MANAGE

TACKLE

This category I found is somewhat easy to solve but very hard to give hints for without using the same words that the category name has. These kinds of categories can often be the hardest to give you hints for, but that