After a long week of work, you may find yourself sleepy while trying to solve thisConnectionspuzzle. This one can be a bit tricky with several crossover words and a few more challenging categories. However, we are here to save the day and allow you to work a little less hard and give you some solid hints in the form of Category names and all the answers so you do not have to ruin your streak.
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Today’s Connections Category Hints
JUNE 8 #362
Some tricky words are going on with this puzzle, but it is easier to sort out if you know the category names listed below.
PRETTY ___
HOLD
RIVET
HOLD and ENGROSS were a good pair to start with, and we used these to figure out the rest. ABSORB came along quickly after but we were not immediately sure that these words formed a full set. Once we determined that RIVETS and STAPLE did not have a connection, it made it easier to attach RIVETS to this category.
SHOOT
TAPE
FILM seemed to be the most popular word of choice for this week, appearing twice in a row. However, this time it is used as a verb and goes along with RECORD to mean using a camera to make a record. SHOOT was easy to guess after that, but TAPE was a little harder. We thought perhaps TAPE belonged with STAPLE, but that category did not prove fruitful and we pivoted quickly.
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PLEATS
STAPLE
This one proved tricky as anagrams is not the first thing we usually think of when we are trying to put words together. PLEASE was also a bit of a red herring because it looked like it belonged more than STAPLE. However, we had a feeling in true Star Wars style that these words did in fact go together somehow. It started with PLEATS and PETALS and before long we were counting letters all the way to victory.
PLEASE
WOMAN
We had a breath of relief when this was the last category we submitted, as it was not very obvious that these words went together to us. While PLEASE and WOMEN made sense, PENNY and GOOD come from less immediately popular sayings. As the last category, it was nice to be able to submit it without worrying about our guesses.
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