New York Times Connections #558 was released on Friday, December 20, 2024. Below are progressively stronger hints, followed by the category names and complete answer key—stop before the answers if you want to solve it yourself.
Hints for Connections #558
- Yellow: Think of a blend or preparation made from multiple ingredients.
- Green: Consider grammatical labels for kinds of sentences.
- Blue: These words can precede “bro” to describe people associated with different fields.
- Purple: Say the words aloud; they sound like complaints.
Connections #558 Answers
Spoilers below: each category and its four words are revealed with a brief explanation.
Yellow: CONCOCTION
COCKTAIL, COMPOUND, MIXTURE, SOLUTION
Each word can describe a combination or preparation formed by bringing multiple substances or elements together.
Green: TYPES OF SENTENCES
COMMAND, EXCLAMATION, QUESTION, STATEMENT
These are familiar grammatical or rhetorical sentence types: an instruction, an expression of strong feeling, a request for information, and an assertion or presentation of information.
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Blue: KINDS OF BROS
CRYPTO, FINANCE, PHARMA, TECH
Each word completes a phrase ending in “bro”: crypto bro, finance bro, pharma bro, and tech bro.
Purple: COMPLAINT HOMOPHONES
GROWN, MOWN, WHALE, WINE
Spoken aloud, these sound like complaint-related words: “groan,” “moan,” “wail,” and “whine.”
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Complete Word Grid
The 16 words in the puzzle were:
WHALE, COCKTAIL, FINANCE, QUESTION, STATEMENT, SOLUTION, GROWN, WINE, TECH, COMMAND, COMPOUND, CRYPTO, MOWN, PHARMA, EXCLAMATION, MIXTURE.
How Connections Works
Connections gives players 16 words to sort into four groups of four that share a theme. The New York Times describes the color difficulty order as yellow (easiest), green, blue, and purple (trickiest); plausible red-herring connections are part of the puzzle.
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When was Connections #558 released?
It was released on Friday, December 20, 2024. The puzzle number and date together identify this archived puzzle.
What is the trick in the purple group?
The words are homophones of complaint-related words: GROWN sounds like “groan,” MOWN like “moan,” WHALE like “wail,” and WINE like “whine.”
Where can I play archived Connections puzzles?
The New York Times says Connections is available on its Games website and app. Its archive is available to eligible subscribers.
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