Today's Connections Hints & Answers For December 21, 2024 (Puzzle #559)

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If you feel like today’s puzzle is making you a grouch, you can feel your mood increase tenfold by using a few tips and tricks to illuminate your way. There are plenty of potential options for you to explore in today’s puzzle, and a lot of potential places where you could make a wrong guess. However, we can help you stay away from those pitfalls and finish the puzzle without too much effort.

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If you need some hints about today’s puzzle we have all the ones you need to keep you from losing out.Today’s puzzle has some odd words, like O, thrown in that make deciphering what the categories are a little harder. To help you do this, we have the following category hints for you to use to make sense of the puzzle.

Strands is one of New York Times' many puzzle games that consists of a unique 6x8 word search that requires players to use zig-zag solutions.

If you still need help figuring out these categories, there is something else you can use to help you decipher the rest of the puzzle. The category names tend to be a big hint toward deciphering the puzzle, and they are found in the box below.

LOOP

COOKING VESSELS

KINDS OF BEDS

THINGS CALLED OSCAR

LOOP

BAND

CIRCLE

HOOP

RING

This category was fairly easy to get once I noticed CIRCLE and HOOP. RING was easy to add in, but finding and adding in BAND was a little harder. I thought O might belong here, but I was not sure until I tried it and was proven wrong. I think it’s a bit of a shame it doesn’t belong here as it is as much of a loop as anything can be. Alas, it is not