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Sometimes, the dailyConnections' puzzle can be a bit rough on the brain. However, with a few key hints and a little strategy this all can be minimized and you can find yourself enjoying the puzzle more and more each day. We aren’t saying we have aConnectionsproblem, but we are saying it’s very easy to get addicted to this one. Which, if anything, is something not so bad to get addicted to.
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Today’s Connections Category Hints
AUGUST 13 #428
If you want some hints about these categories before we tell you what they are, you can look at the bullet points below:
If you are still a bit confused like I was, do not worry. My confusion is to your gain, and I have all the category names you could hope for in the table down below:
TOLD
VOICED
To haveVOICED your concerns usually means that you have SAID, SPOKE, or TOLD someone elsewho has the power to make a change. It was a little odd for this category to be in the past tense, but it did help differentiate these words from the others.
When you have uncles who constantly make the “past tents” joke, it’s not hard to remember some of the meanings behind those jokes. What makes these jokes worse is they are all married with children, making this case of the dad joke even worse than before.
MONIKER
SOBRIQUET
SOBRIQUET was an interesting choice to throw in with all the others, not because it does not share a definition but more sodue to the age of the word. It’s possible that my European friends would be a little more familiar with this term on the whole, as I mostly knew this from years of taking other Romance languages. However, DESIGNATION, HANDLE, and MONIKER all seem to go together very well so it is only a matter of narrowing down the fourth word if you do not know what that word means.
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PRONOUNCED
STRIKING
This category feels fairly straightforward at the outset, butsome of those “Nickname” words could be used here as well. This makes it a little more challenging than otherwise due to the potential overlap, and I could see some of the other words from “Stated” and “Obvious” ending up with one or two of these words instead. Luckily, the category name may not fully match the rest of the aesthetic.
ROUGH
WHEEL
This one had me stumped for a little while, as Icould not figure out where POWER and ROUGH came in. Luckily, after messing around a little bit with categories two and three, I was able to figure out these words and select them without any more issues. However, I could see someone struggling with this one if they thought the category name was something else as I also did.
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