This is the solution to the New York Times Connections puzzle for Friday, October 25, 2024, game #502—not the current daily puzzle. If you want to solve it yourself, use the hints first; the complete groups are below a spoiler warning.
Hints for Connections #502
- One group is made up of marks that can represent a small dot.
- Another group describes kinds of events where people dance.
- Look for a set of iPhone Messages reaction labels.
- The final group connects four different meanings or associations of one short word.
Full answers for October 25, 2024
Spoilers below: The four groups and all 16 words are revealed here.
Yellow: “.”
DOT, PERIOD, POINT, TITTLE
A tittle is the small mark above a lowercase i or j. It is the least familiar word in this set; the other three are more common names for a dot or dot-like mark.
Green: Event with dancing
BALL, FORMAL, HOP, RAVE
Each word can describe an event where people dance.
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Blue: iPhone message Tapback responses
EXCLAMATION POINTS, HEART, QUESTION MARK, THUMBS UP
These are labels for Tapback reactions in iPhone Messages. EXCLAMATION POINTS may look like it belongs with punctuation, but here it is grouped with the other reaction labels.
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Purple: “Pan”
BAD REVIEW, CAMERA MOVEMENT, COOKWARE, SATYR
A review can pan something, a camera can pan across a scene, cookware includes a pan, and Pan is a mythological figure identified by the answer label SATYR.
Independent reader supportYour contribution helps us test, update, and keep practical guides available for everyone.A useful way to approach the wordplay
When a set of four has a clear, concrete connection—such as event types or reaction labels—consider locking it in. For the remaining words, check whether they relate through different meanings or associations of the same word. That is a practical observation about this board, not a guaranteed strategy for every Connections puzzle.
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Connections boards contain 16 words arranged into four groups of four, and a contemporaneous guide describes a limit of four incorrect guesses. Parade’s October 25 guide and TechRadar’s guide for the same date identify this historical board as puzzle #502 and corroborate its solution.
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