Today's Connections Hints and Answers for October 29, 2024 (Puzzle #506)

If you want friendly advice for today's solution Connections puzzle, you are in the right place. Today's puzzle was very frustrating for me, though it might not be for you. That's the beauty and sometimes the pain of every daily puzzle What makes perfect sense to one person may not to your friend. Use the following clues from my frustration to solve the puzzle without feeling the same.




After that, if you want to solve another puzzle, you have to try daily Mini crossword puzzle. I find it delightful because even though I don't have time to solve a full-fledged traditional crossword puzzle, I do have time to sit down. solve a 5×5 mini version of one. It's a great way to relax at the end of the day or during a break when I want to forget about the hassles of customer service.


Today's Connections Category Tips

OCTOBER 29 #506

City in the category of relations October 29

The instructions for this puzzle were a bit difficult to come up with because knowing the categories may not eliminate the frustration in today's puzzle. However, they will still points you in the right directionand if you're not sure about the answers, you can always keep scrolling until you get to the spoiler section for that category. With that said, here are four categories of tips to get you started.


  • One category is about the words used to describe the most searched for item
  • One of the categories is about the different groups that can work in a specialized field
  • One category is about words used in the same popular media
  • A category consists of four words that can all come before a single word in a sentence – a single word that has something to do with geometry

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Here to help you with the rest of this puzzle four more instructions in the form of category namesto be followed by full spoilers for today.


Yellow Connections game bar

IN REPAIR CONDITION

Green Connections game bar

MEDICAL ROLES

Blue Connections game bar

SINGLE NAMES IN THE FAMOUS “JULIUS CAESAR” LINE

Purple Connections game bar

___ Square

Today's Relationship Answers

OCTOBER 29 #506

The city in relations responds on October 29

Yellow Answers: Detected and explained

Yellow Connections game bar

IN REPAIR CONDITION

MINT

NEW

ORIGINAL

UNUSED


This category is one of the reasons why today's puzzle was so difficult for me because I know the words used to describe collectibles. actually here are 5 words that all make senseand I guessed almost every combination of them. PERFECT was the 5th word which made it quite difficult to narrow it down. Almost every time it said “one out” and let me know that at least 3 words were correct and there was a contender in the mix, but I didn't know which word it was.

Green Answers: Revealed and Explained

Green Connections game bar

MEDICAL ROLES

TO PARTICIPATE

COMPANION

INTERN

RESIDENT


I got this right away while searching between INTERN, FELLOW and RESIDENT. I knew there were personnel involved in various jobs as well, but I wasn't quite sure if this category required it. I thought it was more about student roles in workplaces. But once I saw that it was so especially about medical roles, it made more sense and my guess turned out to be correct. I wish the same was true for the previous category.

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Blue Answers: Revealed and Explained

Blue Connections game bar


SINGLE NAME IN THE FAMOUS “JULIUS CAESAR” LINE

Citizen

EAR

FRIEND

NOVEL

For various personal reasons, I hate Shakespeare. Not because I'm forced to read it or because I can't understand it, but because of my own completely valid opinions. I've been told that I'm being a little too dramatic about this, and I should mention that I've seen many of his plays live, but anyway, I wasn't happy to see the category name. I spent a lot of guesswork on the yellow category to finish this anyway, so I luckily he didn't have to spend too much time on it.

Purple Answers: Revealed and Explained

Purple Connections game bar


___ Square

PERFECT

Pocket

TIMES

CITY

At first I thought TOWN, COUNTRYMAN and ROMAN could go together. That would be fine because 2 of those words were actually paired together, but I didn't think about those words again. PERFECT It was elsewhere and I was looking for other “fonts” to go with TIMES but didn't see any. It would be hard to find, especially with Pocket in the mix, I don't think I've ever used it in that context with “square” before.

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relationships

Released
June 12, 2023

Developer(s)
The New York Times Company

Publisher(s)
The New York Times Company

ESRB
e

Platform(s)
Web Browser, Mobile

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