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It’s a new year and that means the first new puzzle wall of 2025 to solve in the New York Times’sConnectionsgame. If you’re looking to save your streak and only want to nail down that last pesky category, don’t worry - we have all the hints you could need.
You’ll find everything you need below, from vague hints as to what you should be looking for to the outright answers. Whether you’re looking for a nudge in the right direction or a sneaky way to preserve your blemish-free record, you’ve come to the right place.
If you’re here by mistake and instead need the answers forDecember 31,click here.
Category Hints
We’ll present these hints from theeasiest category to the hardest, as prescribed by the puzzle itself - Yellow, Green, Blue, then Purple.
If you want today’s category hints,click below! These will not spoil the actual names of the categories but will nudge you in the right direction.
Today’syellow categoryrelates animals that are a little gross. To the touch, anyway. Some of them are quite cute.
Today’sblue categoryrelates to famous symbols for a European country.
Today’spurple categoryrelates to words that end in synonyms.
Herring Watch:Eels only emit light in cartoons. There is no generic ‘animals’ category - the categories are a bit more specific today. There are lots of water-related words today - they are not a category.
Today’s Answers
We lost a single life today - yes, we did think, for a moment, that eels might give off light.
