Today's Connections Hints & Answers For December 19, 2024 (Puzzle #557)

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If you feel like you have been postponing today’s puzzle because it is making you frustrated, you can check out these hints and tips to make things a little clearer. There are some interesting words in today’s puzzle, most of which are all nouns, and there is some overlap particularly in two of the categories. This can make things a little harder, but it is entirely possible to solve it, particularly if you have a little help along the way.

If you are looking to play another puzzle today, you can check out the NYT puzzle. It employs a similar logical deduction as the puzzle, but it is focused on a single word as opposed to multiple ones. There are a lot of different possibilities every day for which 5-letter word they are going to use, but that list is growing shorter the longer the puzzle goes on. Using a combination of possible deductions, you can get closer and closer to the right word, just be sure to get the answer in less than 6 guesses.

If you are looking for hints on today’s puzzle, you are in the right place. There are a lot of different ways you can look at the puzzle, each of which offers you a new perspective and a different method by which to get the right answer. Everyone is coming at these puzzles with a different level of experience, which means that each category may be more or less difficult for everyone. Today, there are a few reasons why each category might present a challenge.

The Tiles game for the New York Times mobile app asks you to use various strategies to pair matching visual patterns together to build huge combos.

If you are still not sure about any of your answers, you can try using the following category names to get the rest of the way there.

DEFER

BAR FIXTURES

WATERCRAFT

SEEN IN «DONKEY KONG»

DEFER

DELAY

POSTPONE

SHELVE

TABLE

This was in fact the easiest category for me today, as DELAY and POSTPONE are both fairly big hints. Luckily, there are not really any extra words that could belong in this category, and players should