Instead of buying bingo, if you win today's challenge, you'll try to make four rows of pastels. Connections puzzle. If you don't know what to look for, it can be difficult to achieve and Today, it can be a bit difficult to distinguish between the three categories if you have lost vital information. It may take some patience, but if you move carefully and not too quickly, you can solve the puzzle.
If you like playing word games, you might like to do daily exercise Mini crossword puzzle. It has all the fun of the larger version with the advantage of being smaller. It will be a puzzle always be a 5×5 grid with clues for each column and row. If you manage to use the right words, you'll have a square filled with the satisfaction of figuring out what the clues are pointing to.
Today's Connections Category Tips
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If you want to succeed today Connections puzzle, you may need Here are some tips to help you create a successful plan to do this. Each category contains words that can easily be mistaken for another, it can only make it easier to guess a word and quickly lose the puzzle. To avoid these miscalculations, we've got some tips that should narrow it down for you. If not, keep scrolling for spoilers.
- One category often refers to things that are expensive
- One category refers to verbs that describe how a person plans things
- One category is about four specific vehicle names
- A category consists of the names of four things that incorporate the name into their designs

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If you're looking for those spoilers here, you'll find them all below. we will start with it only gives you the category namesbefore going through all the answers for each one.
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BRAND-NAME |
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TAKE A PART |
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NASA COSMOQ |
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GAMES YOU CALLED THE NAME OF THE GAME |
Today's Relationship Answers
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Yellow Answers: Detected and explained
BRAND-NAME |
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DESIGNER |
HAUTE |
HIGH END |
LUXURY |
This wasn't the first category I got today, as DESIGNER could easily have been all the words in this puzzle. It took me a while to sort out what belonged where, but this was the second category I was able to separate. That's what helped me do it Looking at LUXURY and HIGH-END, that led me to HAUTE and finally returns to DESIGNER. Although difficult, this puzzle was not as impossible as it might seem due to some overlapping words.
Green Answers: Revealed and Explained
TAKE A PART |
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PREPARE |
ENGINEER |
HATCH |
THE COURT |
Likewise, this was the third category I got because I originally thought DESIGNER and ENGINEER belonged together, along with MASTERMIND. While I was mostly right, I had to think about it differently to see these as verbs instead of nouns. I did it once, as much as I could make a bigger difference between these words and similar wordsbefore adding the last two to CONCOCT and HATCH. DESIGNER could be cut because it is not a verb like the others ending this category.

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Blue Answers: Revealed and Explained
NASA'S COSMOQ |
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GALILEO |
PIONEER |
VIKING |
VOYAGER |
My dad will probably get it before me as someone who has been keeping up with NASA longer and longer than I have. However, I got it most recently because of the words like PIONEER and VOYAGER with ENGINEER and DESIGNER first. Also, GALILEO was a name and I thought it might belong to MARCO POLO in a separate category. Although there are no other obviously appropriate names, I thought it might go with VIKING or VOYAGER to talk about people who are leaders in their fields, but it was actually about a spaceship.
Purple Answers: Revealed and Explained
GAMES YOU CALLED THE NAME OF THE GAME |
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BINGO |
MARCO POLO |
TAG |
UNO |
As someone who has played most of these games extensively and knows that UNO ends relationships when it's too competitive, I actually got this category first. This It was UNO who tipped me offBefore I saw BINGO and I remembered playing a lot of MARCO POLO in the pool every summer – it was way more dangerous than it should have been. TAG was added last but not least because it was hidden among the larger words.
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- He was released
- June 12, 2023
- Developer(s)
- The New York Times Company
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- The New York Times Company
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