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With theConnectionspuzzle heating up, there are a few ways to navigate it in a way that can help you cool down and keep your streak. In a general sense, you want to keep your streak hot and your frustration cool to make this puzzle easier to figure out. Once you do, you will be off to the races to finish it as quickly as possible.
If you likeConnections, you will also like the aesthetic and puzzling nature of thedailySpelling Beepuzzle. It is a very cute puzzle that surprisingly stretches the brain noodle. That makes itfun and intriguing to play at the same time. You will want to race yourself, and possibly your friends, everyday while you try to figure this one out.
Today’s Connections Category Hints
AUGUST 25 #440
If you want a few tips before looking at any spoilers, we have some good news for you. Instead of fuming at your screen, check out these four hints to see if they can help before diving into answers:
If those hints do not do the trick for you, we have some category names in the table below with full answers to follow.
LIVID
STEAMING
This one can be a little difficult merely due to the number of words in this puzzle thatcould all be related to the idea of becoming quite angry.The four words in this category obviously all are, but HEATING and BAKING could also have similar connotations depending on the context.
Oddly enough, often solving aConnectionspuzzle is dependent on that context, but you have to be the one to figure out what that context is, as opposed to having the context but no answer.
STANDING
STATION
This one does not have as much competition, and I would say it is the easiest of the categories for that reason. No other words have quite the same meaning or could be misconstrued about aperson’s status as a member of society, earth, a country, etc.
Luckily, being able to pull these words out of the puzzle early can help narrow down the rest of the categories, but as stated above the tricky words are still in the remaining categories.
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HEATING
VENTILATION
The best way to not struggle with the yellow category is to look at HEATING and AIR together and start to put those two together. However, you might then mistake a couple of other words to go with this category if you do not know it is supposed to be the acronym, but separating them gives you a better chance at recognizing that these areall part of an air conditioning system. If you realize that, you do not even have to recognize the acronym itself.
ORIGAMI
POKER
This one is actually quite interesting, as I feel like it could be easier than the previous category. They both depend on your familiarity with the subject matter and in this category’s case more than one subject matter, but I thinkORIGAMI is the key to solving this one.
From there, the goal would be to see that ORIGAMI and LAUNDRY both involve folding linens, and you might be able to extrapolate BAKING and POKER from there.
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