Hints and Answers for #571 January 2, 2025

Connections is a daily word-puzzle game from the New York Times. If you want to win this challenging game, you’ll need to know a lot more than just the rules of how to play Connections; you’ll need to know all the definitions for all the words and the categories too.

If you are stuck on this one, you are not alone. This difficult puzzle can be beat, however, with a little help from the article below. In it, you can find general hints to the puzzle, category help, and a whole lot more helpful tips.

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Words in the NYT Connections Puzzle #571 for January 2, 2025

The Connections puzzle for today contains the words: Time, Clock, Donut, Paddle, Tired, Month, Beat, Register, Catch, Tag, Inch, Days, Meter, Juror, Notice, and Rhythm.

Hints for the NYT Connections Puzzle

If you need some help with this mind-boggling puzzle but don’t want to see the full spoiler, you can find all sorts of hints in the sections below. Open up each on with the Read More button below it.

Some General Hints for the Whole Connections Puzzle

Here are some hints for this puzzle game:

1. None of these groups are about things that are round.

2. None of these categories are about fields you might find on a time sheet or similar.

3. Paddle and Tag are in the same category.

Yellow NYT Connections Category Hints

Here are some hints for the yellow/straightforward answer: To see, to observe.

Yellow Connections Category Answer

The category for the yellow/straightforward Connections is Perceive.

Yellow Connections Category Answer and All Four Words

The answer to the yellow/straightforward Connections is Perceive.

The four words for this group in the puzzle are: Catch, Clock, Notice, Register.

Green NYT Connections Category Hints

Here are some hints for the green/medium difficulty answer: Tempo, count.

Green Connections Category Answer

The category for the green/medium difficulty Connections is Cadence.

Green Connections Category Answer and All Four Words

The answer to the green/medium difficulty Connections is Cadence.

The four words for this group in the puzzle are: Beat, Meter, Rhythm, Time.

Blue NYT Connections Category Hints

Here are some hints for the blue/difficult answer: Other things you could put into this category: Hours, Zodiacs, Days of Christmas.

Blue Connections Category Answer

The category for the blue/difficult Connections is One in a Group of 12.

Blue Connections Category Answer and All Four Words

The answer to the blue/difficult Connections is One in a Group of 12.

The four words for this group in the puzzle are: Donut, Inch, Juror, Month.

Purple NYT Connections Category Hints

Here are some hints for the purple/tricky answer in this minimalist puzzle game: All these words can follow up the same three-letter animal word to make four different, common phrases.

Purple Connections Category Answer

The category for the purple/tricky difficulty in Connections is Dog ____.

Purple Connections Category Answer and All Four Words

The answer to the purple/tricky difficulty in Connections is Dog ____.

The four words for this group in the puzzle are: Days, Paddle, Tag, Tired.

Answers for Today’s NYT Connections #571 for January 2, 2025

If you want to see the whole answer of this free-to-play game, open up the expandable section below. Inside will be all the categories and where each of the sixteen words belongs.

• Yellow – Perceive: Catch, Clock, Notice, Register
• Green – Cadence: Beat, Meter, Rhythm, Time
• Blue – One in a Group of 12: Donut, Inch, Juror, Month
• Purple – Dog ____: Days, Paddle, Tag, Tired

Want to play? Check out the New York Times Games Connections website available on almost any device with a browser.

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