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Spoiler warning: This guide covers the archived NYT Connections puzzle for Monday, February 24, 2025, game #624. Start with the progressive clues below; the complete groups and answers are farther down.
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This is Connections game #624, published Monday, February 24, 2025. The date matters: this is an archive guide, not a current daily puzzle. TechRadar’s guide appeared on February 23 because the game changes at midnight in each time zone; Parade identifies the same puzzle as Monday’s #624.
The board contains these 16 words: MERMAID, CAVE, HEARTH, BUCKLE, BOW, SCARF, BUTTE, GULP, WOLF, COMPASS, CHINA, SHINE, SWALLOW, GIVE, ANCHOR, GOBBLE.
Progressive hints
Try each clue before revealing the next. The four groups move from familiar meanings to cultural associations and, finally, word construction.
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- Yellow: Dine with gusto.
- Green: Collapse easily.
- Blue: Seen on sailor’s arms.
- Purple: Last letters reveal anatomy.
Answers for Connections #624
Spoilers below. The answer groups are corroborated by Parade and TechRadar’s guides to the February 24, 2025 puzzle.
Yellow: Eat voraciously
GOBBLE, GULP, SCARF, WOLF. Each can describe eating quickly or greedily: you gobble, gulp, scarf down, or wolf down food.
Green: Bend under pressure
BOW, BUCKLE, CAVE, GIVE. In this context, each can mean yielding or giving way when pressure is applied: a structure may bow, buckle, or cave, and a person may give.
Blue: Classic nautical tattoos
ANCHOR, COMPASS, MERMAID, SWALLOW. These are traditional sailor tattoo motifs. The association is cultural rather than a set of objects found only on a ship.
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BUTTE, CHINA, HEARTH, SHINE. Remove each word’s final letter and a body-part word remains: butt, chin, heart, and shin. That last-letter operation is the trick behind the group.
Independent reader supportYour contribution helps us test, update, and keep practical guides available for everyone.How difficult was this puzzle?
Tom’s Guide retrospectively reported a difficulty score of 4 and a 49% solve rate for this puzzle, based on Connection Companion archive ratings. Those are Tom’s Guide’s figures, not statistics published by The New York Times. The two measures also come from that secondary retrospective rather than an official NYT performance report.
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Sources
- Parade: NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, February 24, 2025
- TechRadar: NYT Connections hints and answers for February 24, 2025
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