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NYT Connections Hints January 1, 2025 #570

As a fellow word puzzle enthusiast, I've designed these hints to be progressive to preserve your enjoyment of the game. Please reveal them in order, starting from the top. While official hints and answers are available at the bottom, I strongly encourage you to think through each connection yourself before checking them.

Yellow Group Hints January 1, 2025

SLUG: Everyone calls slugs slow, but maybe they're just living life at the perfect pace while we're all rushing nowhere.

Hint One

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They all lack limbs or have very short ones

Hint Two

These animals glide smoothly along surfaces

Hint Three

Slimy animals

Green Group Hints January 1, 2025

RAINDROP: Each raindrop thinks it's falling, but really it's just returning home. Makes you wonder if our failures are just cosmic homecomings.

Hint One

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These things emit light without heat

Hint Two

Natural and artificial sources of cold light

Hint Three

Things that luminesce

Blue Group Hints January 1, 2025

SALAMANDER: Salamanders can regrow limbs while we can't even fix a broken phone screen. Evolution has some explaining to do.

Hint One

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Common sights in Netherlands

Hint Two

Traditional Dutch infrastructure and icons

Hint Three

Dutch symbols

Purple Group Hints January 1, 2025

GATECRASH: Gates were invented to keep people out, but gatecrashing proves that humans will always find a way to make rules irrelevant.

Hint One

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Gravity plays a key role with these

Hint Two

These all describe descending actions or phenomena

Hint Three

Ending with synonyms for “plunge”

Get NYT Connections Answers January 1, 2025 #570

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Yellow Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Slimy animals

EARTHWORM
EEL
SALAMANDER
SLUG

Green Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Things that luminesce

AURORA
FIREFLY
GLOWSTICK
RADIUM

Blue Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Dutch symbols

CANAL
CLOG
TULIP
WINDMILL

Purple Group NYT Connections Answers

Hint: Ending with synonyms for “plunge”

GATECRASH
RAINDROP
SKYDIVE
WATERFALL