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'Connections' Christmas Day 2024: Hints and answers for puzzle #563

'Connections' Christmas Day 2024: Hints and answers for puzzle #563

By Kevin Harson

Lifestyle

Merry Christmas or happy Hanukkah for those who celebrate! While it may be a holiday, Connections still needs to be solved and we're here to help you along with some handy hints.

Below are instructions on how to play and clues to help you solve the game, but the answers appear at the end of the article, so scroll with caution.

How to Play 'Connections'

The categories vary in difficulty from yellow to green to blue to purple, with yellow considered the easiest category and purple the trickiest.

For example, a recent game linked the words "Braid," "Bun," "Pony" and "Twist" under the category: "Ways to wear your hair up." This was a blue category.

Once you have selected four words, you click the "submit" button. If your choices match a category, they will appear in the category color and disappear from the grid. If they are incorrect, however, they will remain gray and stay on the board.

If you are stuck, try selecting the "shuffle" button to move the words to a different place on the grid.

Players have up to four chances to guess incorrectly before the game ends. There's no time constraint, so no need to rush things.

"My top advice is to hold off on guessing as long as you can," Wyna Liu, the game's editor at The New York Times, previously told Newsweek.

Newsweek has some hints to help you figure out today's Connections categories.

'Connections' #563 Clues for Wednesday, December 25

Yellow: Things that you might see in space.

Green: Famous people or characters that use a bow and arrow.

Blue: Beings in the wild whose gender is female.

Purple: They have appeared on a TV show broadcast live from New York.

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'Connections' is a popular word game published by 'The New York Times'. 'Connections' is a popular word game published by 'The New York Times'. The New York Times

'Connections' #563 Answers for Wednesday, December 25

Yellow Category: CELESTIAL OBJECTS

Yellow Words: Comet, Moon, Planet, Star

Green Category: ARCHERS

Green Words: Cupid, Hawkeye, Robin Hood, Sagittarius

Blue Category: FEMALE ANIMALS

Blue Words: Jenny, Nanny, Queen, Vixen

Purple Category: "S.N.L" CAST MEMBERS

Purple Words: Shannon, Fey, Rudolph, Strong

Did you guess the answers correctly? If so, congratulations. If not, there will be another opportunity to crack the code tomorrow.

Connections is released at midnight in your local time zone and Newsweek will be back tomorrow with another round of hints and tips.

In the meantime, you could try your hand at Wordle—another popular game from The Times for which Newsweek also provides daily hints.

Originally published by newsweek.com. Syndicated material does not necessarily reflect the views of Grazia British.

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