NYT Connections #505 Answers and Hints for October 28, 2024

NYT Connections puzzle #505 was published on Monday, October 28, 2024. Its four groups are Audio Apps, Indicate, Church of England Wedding Vow Verbs, and Magic Words. The complete grid and a short explanation of the trickiest overlaps follow.

Connections #505 answers

Why the categories can be tricky

Separate the sound-alike associations

SHAZAM may bring a magic word to mind, but here it belongs with the audio apps AUDIBLE, PANDORA, and TIDAL. SPELL also suggests magic, yet its role is as a verb meaning “indicate” or “make clear,” alongside MEAN, SIGNIFY, and SUGGEST.

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Read “magic words” broadly

The purple group mixes stage-magic expressions—ABRACADABRA and PRESTO—with the polite phrases PLEASE and THANK YOU. The shared idea is that these are familiar “magic words,” not that all four are incantations.

A useful way to see the solution

1. Spot the likely audio-service names: AUDIBLE, PANDORA, SHAZAM, and TIDAL.

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2. Among the remaining words, group the verbs that can mean to indicate something: MEAN, SIGNIFY, SPELL, and SUGGEST.

3. Recognize the wedding-vow phrase “to have and to hold, to love and to cherish”: HAVE, HOLD, LOVE, and CHERISH.

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4. The four remaining words form the broad “magic words” category: ABRACADABRA, PLEASE, PRESTO, and THANK YOU.

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