Today's Connections Hints & Answers For December 20, 2024 (Puzzle #558)

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If your victory on today’s puzzle is in question, you will want to do everything you can to salvage it before it goes badly. Today’s puzzle has some tricky words that want to be in multiple categories, which can make it more difficult for you to win the day. There are also a group of words that are not what they seem to be when you first look at them. This can compound in a difficult time for you if you are not careful as you seek to decipher the puzzle.

The NYT puzzle is a fun matching game. It has a fun gameplay loop that allows you to connect layers of tiles to each other to clear them off the board. It doesn’t matter what order the layers come off, just that they do. Getting all of them in one big streak will help you generate a big score. If you want to do your best, you will need to connect as many as you can in a row without making a mistake.

Today’s puzzle is more about separating out what doesn’t go together due to some of the words that want to be in multiple categories. Some words look different than what they are. To sort out what’s what, you could use some hints to help you guess what the categories are.

Four categories with four words each sounds simple, but the daily challenge of the Connections game can prove difficult without a few tips to help.

If that still is not enough for you, there are plenty of other potential hints and upcoming spoilers for you to figure the rest of the puzzle out below.

CONCOCTION

TYPES OF SENTENCES

KINDS OF BROS

COMPLAINT HOMOPHONES

CONCOCTION

COCKTAIL

COMPOUND

MIXTURE

SOLUTION

This one felt fairly simple once I saw it but I did have to solve the next category first. This is mainly due to COMPOUND, which is a type of sentence and arguably the one used the most. However, a compound sentence is still one of the other types of sentences as well, which makes it fit into the category a little less well than it does here. Once I had this category sorted out, it did feel like this was the best place for it anyway, but it