Need help with the February 22, 2024, NYT Connections puzzle? Start with the spoiler-free clues below, then continue to the answer key when you’re ready. This date-specific puzzle is reported as #256.
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- One group is made up of sounds a dog can make.
- ARM and WING fit together as kinds of divisions.
- CRADLE and SOURCE are both associated with beginnings.
- In the wordplay group, changing each word’s first letter creates a color name.
Spoiler warning: February 22, 2024 answers
The full solution is below.
DOG SOUNDS
BARK, GROWL, HOWL, WHINE
DEPARTMENT
ARM, BRANCH, CHAPTER, WING
ORIGIN
CRADLE, FONT, ROOT, SOURCE
COLORS WITH THEIR FIRST LETTERS CHANGED
CLUE becomes BLUE, FROWN becomes BROWN, MELLOW becomes YELLOW, and PREEN becomes GREEN.
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The sixteen words in the puzzle were CLUE, ROOT, WHINE, WING, CRADLE, BRANCH, FROWN, BARK, PREEN, GROWL, ARM, FONT, HOWL, MELLOW, SOURCE, and CHAPTER.
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Connections gives players sixteen words to sort into four groups of four that share a theme. The groups are color-coded by difficulty: yellow is easiest and purple is trickiest. The New York Times says the categories are editor-curated using the Oxford Dictionary, and words can seem to fit more than one category—one reason to use the clues before looking at the key.
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