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Hints for Connections #714
Try these in order before viewing the answers:
- In a deck.
- Looking just like someone else.
- Where you might sport some new jewelry.
- They can all share the same second word.
Answers for May 25, 2025
Spoilers: The four groups and their tiles are listed below.
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- PLAYING CARDS: ACE, JACK, KING, QUEEN
- DOPPELGÄNGER: CLONE, DOUBLE, RINGER, TWIN
- EAR PIERCING SITES: CONCH, HELIX, LOBE, ROOK
- ____ MAIL: CHAIN, ELECTRONIC, JUNK, SNAIL
Why the final group fits
Each word in the last group can come before “mail”: chain mail, electronic mail, junk mail, and snail mail.
How Connections works
Connections asks players to sort 16 words into four groups of four related words. Try Hard Guides describes the groups as progressing from easiest to trickiest and says players may make up to four mistakes; that is a secondary-source description, not a verified current official rules statement.
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What puzzle-solving research says—and doesn’t say
A 2024 study by Angel Yahir Loredo Lopez, Tyler McDonald, and Ali Emami evaluated six recent large language models, a machine-learning heuristic, and human participants across multiple puzzle-solving setups. Its dataset contained 358 puzzles. In the paper’s “Full Hints” condition, the authors reported 40.25% accuracy for Claude 3.5 and 60.67% for human participants. Those results describe the study’s experimental sample and methods; they do not measure how difficult puzzle #714 was for ordinary players.
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