Today’s Connections Hints & Answers For January 02, 2024 (Puzzle #571)

If you are struggling to clock today’s Connections puzzle, you will need to get a few hints and tricks to finish it off. Today felt a little more on the difficult side than the last two days for me personally, although that is most certainly not the universal experience. Every puzzle is likely difficult in different ways for different people, but if you also found this puzzle difficult like I did, you can use these hints I have laid out to get the right answers.

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Today’s Connections Category Hints

JANUARY 02 #571

If you need help on today’s puzzle, I wouldn’t blame you as I wished I had a little help as well. There are words in this puzzle that don’t seem to make sense or go together, and other words that seem like they should go together, but they don’t. Several times I thought I had a correct answer and didn’t even get a “one away” when it failed. Because of that, here are several clues to help you out:

• One category is about whether or not you can see something
• One category is about the way something sounds, particularly if it is syncopated
• One category is about things that come in a similar quantity
• One category is four words that come after another word in a phrase – that word is an animal

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If you want more help on today’s puzzle, you will be looking to find the category names. If you need more help than that, the full spoilers will be further below.

	PERCEIVE
	CADENCE
	ONE IN A GROUP OF TWELVE
	DOG ___

Today’s Connections Answers

JANUARY 02 #571

Yellow Answers: Revealed & Explained

I was close to this category, and I had several guesses that involved two or more of these words. I eventually moved on and never came back to it, but TAG and METER were other words I considered being here. At the time, I was focused on NOTICE and REGISTER and those words by themselves did put me more in the mind of something official as opposed to seeing something. I was close but not close enough on this one, which is true of most of this puzzle.

Green Answers: Revealed & Explained

There was a similar story for this category, as I had BEAT and RHYTHM together but figuring out the other two words became harder. TIME was added in, but I used CLOCK as my guess for that one as opposed to METER. With a couple of other unfortunate guesses, I remained close but not close enough. It was a sad day to lose my streak, but hopefully, my mistakes will help you get the right answers. I feel a little silly not putting METER here now, as I do have enough years of music class to know better.

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Blue Answers: Revealed & Explained

This one I do not think I would have gotten on my own, but I was again only halfway there. I had MONTH and INCH grouped together with CLOCK and TIME at one point, but obviously, that was not right. I also thought METER might belong here, as these are all measurements. I was wrong about what this category was, and that ended up being a fatal error. DONUT and JUROR did confuse me in this puzzle, as I had no idea why they belonged here.

Purple Answers: Revealed & Explained

This last category is hard to put together. TAG was something I had considered elsewhere. PADDLE was also something I originally thought might go with RHYTHM but dismissed it before I wasted that on a guess. I also had DAYS with the other time quantities at one point, so that was another reason this category was so difficult to solve for me. It’s an odd assortment of words, and it would be difficult to put them all together without more context.

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Released

June 12, 2023

Developer(s)

The New York Times Company

Publisher(s)

The New York Times Company

ESRB

e

Platform(s)

Web Browser
, Mobile